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    -BOOK SITE: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass By Theodore Dalrymple (Manhattan Institute)
    -ESSAY ARCHIVES: Theodore Dalrymple (City Journal)
    -ARCHIVES: theodore dalrymple (New Criterion)
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    -ESSAY: A Neglected Genius (Theodore Dalrymple, Winter 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Reality Leaves Satire Behind (Theodore Dalrymple, Winter 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Frivolity of Evil (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Multiculturalism Starts Losing Its Luster (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: When Islam Breaks Down (Theodore Dalrymple, Spring 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Who Killed Childhood? (Theodore Dalrymple, Spring 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Case for Cannibalism: If everything is permissible between consenting adults, why not? (Theodore Dalrymple, January 2004, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Why Shakespeare Is For All Time (Theodore Dalrymple, Winter 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Sex and the Shakespeare Reader (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Multi-Culti Barbarian: Has multicultural indoctrination made us less sensitive to the mores of different societies? (Theodore Dalrymple, September 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Europe of Yesterday: The ghosts of the past still haunt the European Union. (Theodore Dalrymple, 6 August 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Real World: . . . without a TV screen (Theodore Dalrymple, 11 July 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks? (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Smearing Orwell: Elites now admit communism was bad—but fighting it prematurely was worse. (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: After Empire (Theodore Dalrymple, Spring 2003, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2002, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Starving Criminal (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2002, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Rage of Virginia Woolf (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2002, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Why Havana Had to Die (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2002, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Man Who Predicted the Race Riots (Theodore Dalrymple, Spring 2002, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Gillray’s Ungloomy Morality (Theodore Dalrymple, Winter 2002, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Dystopian Imagination (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: What We Have to Lose (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Who’s to Blame? (Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: How—and How Not—to Love Mankind (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Uses of Corruption (Theodore Dalrymple, Summer 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: A Lost Art (Theodore Dalrymple, Spring 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: How to Read a Society: (Theodore Dalrymple, Spring 2000, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Blame it on Bloomsbury: She is one of the most influential writers of the modern age. But, with her fatal mix of privilege and self-pity, Virginia Woolf inflicted lasting damage on western culture (Theodore Dalrymple, August 17, 2002, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY Arrested development (Theodore Dalrymple, June 2002, New Criterion)
    -ESSAY: Discovering LaRochefoucauld (Theodore Dalrymple, April 2001, New Criterion)
    -ESSAY: Walsall redux (Theodore Dalrymple, February 2001, New Criterion)
    -ESSAY: Gooseberries (Theodore Dalrymple, November 1999, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Therapy Culture by Frank Furedi (Theodore Dalrymple, Daily Telegraph)
    -REVIEW: of The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir, by Toni Bentley (Theodore Dalrymple, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community by Margo DeMello (Theodore Dalrymple, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance by Sally Satel & Christina Hoff Sommers (Theodore Dalrymple, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman, by James Sharpe (Theodore Dalrymple, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Crossing, by Deirdre N. McCloskey (Theodore Dalrymple, New Criterion)
    -INTERVIEW: Our Culture, What's Left Of It (Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com)
    -Symposium: Through the Eyes of a Suicide Bomber (Jamie Glazov, August 12, 2005, FrontPageMagazine.com)
    -INTERVIEW: Citizen and Scholar of the World: An Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple (Bernard Chapin, April 18, 2005, Enter Stage Right)
    -INTERVIEW: The Spectator in the Breast of Man: Self-regulation and the Decline of Civility (Peter Saunders, Winter 2002, Policy)
    -REVIEW: of Our Culture, What's Left of It (Stefan Beck, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Our Culture, What's Left of It (Rev. Johannes L. Jacobse, Townhall)
    -REVIEW: of Our Culture, What's Left of It (Andrew Martin, The Louisville Courier-Journal)
    -REVIEW: of Our Culture, What's Left of It (Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass By Theodore Dalrymple (Dutch Martin, Townhall)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (John Derbyshire, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (David Pryce-Jones, National Review)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (Thomas Sowell, Townhall)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (John Clark, Liberty)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (Teresa K. Weaver, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (Arthur E. Foulkes, John Locke Foundation)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (Peter Heinegg, America)
    -REVIEW: of Life at the Bottom (Roger Donway, Objectivist Center)
    -REVIEW: of Life at Bottom (Noemie Emery, Philanthropy)
    Don't set the people free: many poor souls need institutions, but the ideologues and cost-cutters insist on giving them autonomy (Theodore Dalrymple, 12/14/02, The Spectator)

If freedom entails responsibility, a fair proportion of mankind would prefer servitude; for it is far, far better to receive three meals a day and be told what to do than to take the consequences of one's own self-destructive choices. It is, moreover, a truth universally unacknowledged that freedom without understanding of what to do with it is a complete nightmare.

Such freedom is a nightmare, of course, not only for those who possess it, but for everyone around them. A man who does not know what to do with his freedom is like a box of fireworks into which a lighted match is thrown: he goes off in all directions at once. And such, multiplied by several millions, is modern society. The welfare state is - or has become - a giant organisation to shelter people from the natural consequences of their own disastrous choices, thus infantilising them and turning them into semi-dependants, to the great joy of their power-mad rulers.