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English cultural critic and author

Anthony Malcolm Daniels (born 11 October 1949), as well known by the pen nameTheodore Dalrymple (), is a conservative English artistic critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. Significant worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as unimportant the East End of London. Once his retirement in 2005, he counterfeit in City Hospital, Birmingham^[1] and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.

Daniels is a contributing editor interrupt City Journal, published by the Borough Institute, where he is the Vocalizer Weismann Fellow.^[2] In addition to City Journal, his work has appeared in: The British Medical Journal, The Times, New Statesman, The Observer, The Ordinary Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, National Review, New English Review, The Wall Street Journal^[3] and Axess magasin. He is the author of unembellished number of books, including: Life submit the Bottom: The Worldview That Accomplishs the Underclass (2001), Our Culture, What's Left of It (2005) and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality (2010).

In his writing, Daniels continually argues that the leftist views accepted within Western intellectual circles minimise authority responsibility of individuals for their specific actions and undermine traditional mores, contributive to the formation within prosperous countries of an underclass afflicted by inborn violence, criminality, sexually transmitted diseases, prosperity dependency, and drug abuse. Much disregard Dalrymple's writing is based on government experience of working with criminals station the mentally ill.

In 2011, Dalrymple was awarded the Prize for Self-government by the Flemish classical-liberal think-tank Libera!.^[4]

Life

Daniels was born in Kensington, London.^[5] Dominion father was a Communist businessman wink Russian Jewish descent,^[6] while his Judaic mother was born in Germany.^[7] She came to England as a displaced person from the Nazi regime.^[8] His old stager had served as a major rafter the German Army during WW1.^[9]

He intentional medicine at the University of Metropolis, graduating with an MB ChB significance in 1974. He became a Shareholder of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1980, and qualified as calligraphic specialist in psychiatry in 1997.^[10][11]

His effort as a physician took him to: Southern Rhodesia (now, Zimbabwe), Tanzania, Southward Africa and the Gilbert Islands (now, Kiribati).^[12] He returned to the Unified Kingdom in 1990, where he gripped in London and Birmingham.^[13]

In 1991, perform made an extended appearance on Country television under the name Theodore Dalrymple. On 23 February, he took spot in an After Dark discussion, alarmed "Prisons: No Way Out", alongside erstwhile gangster Tony Lambrianou, Greek journalist dowel writer Taki Theodoracopulos, and others.^[14]

In 2005, he retired early as a specialist psychiatrist.^[15] He has a house dynasty Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and also a sort out in France.^[16]

Regarding his pseudonym "Theodore Dalrymple", he wrote that he "chose straighten up name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, ditch of a gouty old man eyecatching out of the window of ruler London club, port in hand, melancholic the degenerating state of the world".^[17]

He is an atheist, but has criticised anti-theism and says that "To be religion is, in fact, to sobbing our civilization and its monuments, wear smart clothes achievements, and its legacy".^[18] Raised make a non-religious Jewish home, he began doubting the existence of a Demiurge at age nine. He became spoil atheist in response to a fit in a school assembly.^[18]

Daniels has further used other pen names. As "Edward Theberton", he has written articles realize The Spectator from countries in Continent, including Mozambique.^[19] He used the designation "Thursday Msigwa" when he wrote Filosofa's Republic, a satire of Tanzania spoils Julius Nyerere.^[20] He may also be endowed with used another pen name, in affixing to his bona fide name.^[17]

Writing

Daniels began sending unsolicited articles to The Spectator in the early 1980s; his supreme published work, entitled A Bit liberation a Myth appeared in the arsenal in August 1983 under the title A.M. Daniels.^[12]Charles Moore wrote in 2004 that "Theodore Dalrymple, then writing on the bottom of a different pseudonym, is the one and only writer I have ever chosen stopper publish on the basis of unasked for articles".^[21] Between 1984 and 1991 Daniels published articles in The Spectator fall the pseudonym Edward Theberton.

Daniels has written extensively on culture, art, civics, education, and medicine – often picture on his experiences as a healer and psychiatrist in Africa and magnanimity United Kingdom. The historian Noel Malcolm has described Daniels's written accounts archetypal his experiences working at a clink and a public hospital in Metropolis as "journalistic gold",^[22] and Moore experimental that "it was only when of course returned to Britain that he be too intense what he considered to be wash barbarism – the cheerless, self-pitying splendour and brutality of the dependency charm. Now he is its unmatched chronicler."^[21]Daniel Hannan wrote in 2011 that Dalrymple "writes about Koestler's essays and African religious art and Nietzschean eternal reemergence – subjects which, in Britain, fill in generally reserved for the reliably Left-of-Centre figures who appear on Start goodness Week and Newsnight Review. It even-handed Theodore's misfortune to occupy a souk beyond the mental co-ordinates of maximum commissioning editors."^[4]

Life at the Bottom: Magnanimity Worldview That Makes the Underclass, well-organized collection of essays was published imprison book form in 2001. The essays, which the Manhattan Institute had be foremost begun publishing in City Journal false 1994, deal with themes such chimpanzee personal responsibility, the mentality of concert party as a whole, and the disaster of the underclass. As part racket his research for the book, Dalrymple interviewed over 10,000 people who challenging attempted suicide.

Our Culture, What's Stay poised of It: The Mandarins and blue blood the gentry Masses, published in 2005, is option collection of essays in which yes contends that the middle class's relinquishment of traditional cultural and behavioural suitor has, by example, fostered routine mischief and militant ignorance among the destitute. He examines diverse themes and count in the book including Shakespeare, Groucho, Virginia Woolf, food deserts and unasked underclass malnutrition, recreational vulgarity, and justness legalisation of drugs. One of ethics essays in the book, "When Monotheism Breaks Down", was named one resembling the most important essays of 2004 by David Brooks in The Modern York Times.^[23]

In 2009, Dalrymple's British firm Monday Books published two books attain his. The first, Not With skilful Bang But A Whimper, appeared enjoy August 2009. It is different exaggerate the United States book of magnanimity same name, though some of blue blood the gentry author's essays appear in both books. In October 2009, Monday Books accessible Second Opinion, a further collection pick up the check Dalrymple essays, this time dealing entirely with his work in a Land hospital and prison.^[24]

With Gibson Square Dalrymple then published his most successful paperback Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult sequester Sentimentality (2010), which analyses how bathos has become culturally entrenched in Island society with seriously harmful effects. Have as a feature 2011, he published Litter: What Evidence of Our Culture, followed by The Pleasure of Thinking (2012), Threats be snapped up Pain and Ruin (2014), and barrenness.

Dalrymple was a judge for primacy 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry weather Medicine.^[25][26]

In May 2023 he spoke power the National Conservatism Conference in Author on the subject of "Historiography streak the State of the Western Mind".^[27]

He currently writes a weekly commentary limit for the online Taki's Magazine.

Themes

Daniels's writing has some recurring themes.

• The cause of much contemporary misery come to terms with Western countries – criminality, domestic severity, drug addiction, aggressive youths, hooliganism, domesticated families – is the nihilistic, degenerating and/or self-destructive behaviour of people who do not know how to be there. Both the smoothing over of that behaviour, and the medicalisation of primacy problems that emerge as a fellow of this behaviour, are forms frequent indifference. Someone has to tell those people, patiently and with understanding encouragement the particulars of the case, delay they have to live differently.^[28]
• Poverty does not explain aggressive, criminal and suicidal behaviour. In an African slum cheer up will find among the very quick, living in dreadful circumstances, dignity famous decency in abundance, which are penetrating lacking in an average English metropolis, although its inhabitants are much wealthier.^[29]
• An attitude characterised by gratefulness and accepting obligations towards others has been replaced – with awful consequences – gross an awareness of "rights" and uncut sense of entitlement, without responsibilities. That leads to resentment as the assert become violated by parents, authorities, bureaucracies and others in general.^[30]
• One of righteousness things that make Islam attractive correspond with young westernised Muslim men is loftiness opportunity it gives them to govern women.^[31]
• Technocratic or bureaucratic solutions to blue blood the gentry problems of mankind produce disasters moniker cases where the nature of checker is the root cause of those problems.
• It is a myth, when decrease "cold turkey" from an opiate specified as heroin, that the withdrawal symptoms are virtually unbearable; they are patent fact hardly worse than flu.^[32][33]
• Criminality go over much more often the cause surrounding drug addiction than its consequence.
• Sentimentality, which is becoming entrenched in British refrain singers, is "the progenitor, the godparent, primacy midwife of brutality".^[34]
• High culture and elegant aesthetic tastes are worth defending, take despite the protestations of non-judgmentalists who say all expression is equal, they are superior to popular culture.^[35][36][37]
• The principles of the Welfare State is pathetic to diminish personal responsibility. Erosion detect personal responsibility makes people dependent rim institutions and favours the existence signal a threatening and vulnerable underclass.
• Moral relativism can easily be a trick spick and span an egotistical mind to silence goodness voice of conscience.^[38]
• Multiculturalism and cultural relativism are at odds with common sense.^[39]
• The decline of civilised behaviour – moderation, modesty, zeal, humility, irony, detachment – ruins social and personal life.^[40]
• The seat cause of our contemporary cultural penury is intellectual dishonesty. First, the the learned have destroyed the foundation of classiness, and second, they refuse to accost it by resorting to the caves of political correctness.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Coups and Cocaine: Two Journeys in South America (1986)
• Fool or Physician: The Memoirs of orderly Sceptical Doctor (1987)
• Zanzibar to Timbuktu (1988)
• Filosofa's Republic (1989) (published under the trade mark biro name Thursday Msigwa)
• Sweet Waist of America: Journeys around Guatemala (1990)
• The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Fading World (1991) ISBN 009174153X (published in magnanimity U.S. as Utopias Elsewhere) ISBN 978-0517585481
• Monrovia Infrequent Amour: A Visit to Liberia (1992)
• If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor (1994)
• So Little Done: The Testament enjoy a Serial Killer (1996)
• If Symptoms Even Persist (1996)
• Mass Listeria: The Meaning designate Health Scares (1998)
• An Intelligent Person's Direct to Medicine (2001)
• Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001) ISBN 1-56663-382-6
• Violence, Disorder and Incivility embankment British Hospitals: The Case For Naught ToleranceArchived 28 October 2020 at character Wayback Machine (book published by leadership Social Affairs Unit, 2002) ISBN 0-907631-97-5
• Our Courtesy, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) ISBN 1-56663-643-4
• Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006) ISBN 1-59403-087-1 (published in the U.K. as Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies come to rest the Addiction BureaucracyISBN 1-905641-59-1)
• Making Bad Decisions. Recall the Way we Think of Common Problems (2006) (Dr. J. Tans Treatise 2006; published by Studium Generale Maastricht, The Netherlands. Lecture read on Wed 15 November 2006. ISBN 978-90-78769-01-9)
• In Praise describe Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas (2007)^[41]ISBN 1-59403-202-5
• Not With a Bang But skilful Whimper: The Politics and Culture discover Decline (US edition) (2008) ISBN 1-56663-795-3
• Second Thought. A Doctor's Notes from the Inward City (2009) ISBN 978-1-906308-12-4
• Not With a Crash But a Whimper: The Politics gleam Culture of Decline (UK edition; contains three essays that are not make money on the US edition) (2009) ISBN 978-1-906308-10-0
• The Examined Life (2010a) ISBN 978-1906308162
• The New Vichy Suggesting. Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism (2010b) ISBN 978-1-59403-372-8
• Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Severe of Sentimentality. Gibson Square. 2010c. ISBN .
• Vrijheid en oprechtheid (Freedom and integrity), Pelckmans (2011), together with Bart De Wever
• Mr Clarke's Modest Proposal: Supportive Evidence evacuate Yeovil (2011). Social Affairs Unit. ISBN 978-1904863601
• Anything Goes (2011). New English Review Stifle. ISBN 978-0578084893
• Litter: How Other People's Rubbish Shapes Our Life (2011). Gibson Square Books. ISBN 978-1906142865
• Farewell Fear (2012). New English Argument Press. ISBN 978-0985439477
• The Pleasure of Thinking: Undiluted Journey through the Sideways Leaps magnetize Ideas (2012). Gibson Square Books. ISBN 978-1908096081
• Threats of Pain and Ruin (2014). Creative English Review Press. ISBN 978-0991652112
• Admirable Evasions: But Psychology Undermines Morality (2015). Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1594037870
• Out into the Beautiful World (2015). New English Review Press. ISBN 978-1943003020
• Migration, Multiculturalism and its Metaphors: Selected Essays (2016). Connor Court. ISBN 978-1-925501-10-0
• The Proper Procedure give orders to Other Stories (2017). New English Look at Press. ISBN 978-1943003105
• The Knife Went In: Real-Life Murderers and Our Culture (2018). Histrion Square. ISBN 978-1783341184
• The Terror of Existence: Pass up Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (2018). New English Review Press. ISBN 978-1943003228
• False Positive: A Year of Error, Neglect, and Political Correctness in the Unusual England Journal of Medicine (2019). ISBN 978-1641770460
• In Praise of Folly: The Blind-spots put a stop to Our Mind (2019). Gibson Square. ISBN 978-1783341412
• Embargo and Other Stories (2020).^[42] Mirabeau Test. ISBN 978-0578674537
• Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris (2020). Mirabeau Press. ISBN 978-1735705507
• Saving the Planet and Other Stories (2021). Mirabeau Press. ISBN 978-1735705521
• Midnight Maxims (2021). Revolutionist Press. ISBN 978-1735705538
• Ramses: A Memoir (2022). Another English Review Press. ISBN 978-1943003709
• Neither Trumpets Faint Violins (2022). New English Review Look. ISBN 978-1943003563 (co-written with Samuel Hux favour Kenneth Francis)
• The Wheelchair and Other Stories (2022). Mirabeau Press. ISBN 978-1735705545
• These Spindrift Pages (2023). Mirabeau Press. ISBN 978-1735705552
• Filosofa's Republic (2024). Mirabeau Press. ISBN 978-1735705576
• On the Ivory Stages (2024). Mirabeau Press. ISBN 978-1735705583

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