Outstanding essay on Joseph Conrad by the estimable Dr. D
Just read the whole thing. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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History of the anti-vaccine movement
Very well reviewed by Dr. D, also at City Journal. The world’s children are, taken as a whole, the healthiest who have ever lived, in no small part thanks to immunization against the common infectious diseases of childhood that, not … Continue reading →
Dr. D: The poison of sentimentality
Sentimentality allows us to congratulate ourselves on our own warmth and generosity of heart. Oscar Wilde said that sentimentality is the desire to have the luxury of emotion without paying for it. It turns the people on whom it is … Continue reading →
Evil & Ourselves
Typically great piece by Dr. D. in City Journal. Sample aperçu: The two greatest moral catastrophes of the twentieth century, wrought by Lenin and Hitler, were perverse effects of the Enlightenment. Lenin and Hitler were creatures of the Enlightenment not … Continue reading →
Dr. D rips Britain
Characteristically ascerbic: Perhaps this would not be so serious a matter if the British economy were not a so-called service economy. It has been such ever since Margaret Thatcher solved our chronic industrial relations problem by the simple expedient of … Continue reading →
Dr. D: Right to health care?
If there is a right to health care, someone has the duty to provide it. Inevitably, that “someone” is the government. Concrete benefits in pursuance of abstract rights, however, can be provided by the government only by constant coercion.…When the … Continue reading →
Islamism is a modern ideology in religious garb
Yes. Dr. D puts it pithily. The merit of Malik’s book is that it seeks the answer in modern conditions. Even in Islamic countries, fundamentalists are not medieval throwbacks, however they may see themselves. They derive their ideas, even if … Continue reading →
Dr. Dalrymple on public behavior
A Dutch psychologist and criminologist, Chris Rutenfrans, once told me that, in his opinion, there was a single factor underlying much modern social pathology and psychic unease, namely a loss of the power of, or inclination to, self-control. It sounded … Continue reading →
Theodore Dalrymple on Paul Hollander…
…two of my favorite writers. With their memories of the sixties, when to be young was very heaven, they still believe that an oppositional stance in pursuit of perfection is virtuous in itself—indeed, is the prime or sole content of … Continue reading →