Theodore Dalrymple
 Theodore Dalrymple  (Author, journalist, physician, psychiatrist) | |
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| Born | Anthony Malcolm Daniels 11 October 1949 Kensington, London |
| Nationality | UK |
British conservative writer and cultural critic | |
Anthony Malcolm Daniels, also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham[1] and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.
Daniels is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow.[2] In addition to City Journal, his work has appeared in: The British Medical Journal, The Times, New Statesman, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, National Review, New English Review, The Wall Street Journal [3] and Axess magasin. He is the author of a number of books, including: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass; Our Culture, What's Left of It and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.
In his writing, Daniels frequently argues that the socially liberal and progressive views prevalent within Western intellectual circles minimise the responsibility of individuals for their own actions and undermine traditional mores, contributing to the formation within prosperous countries of an underclass afflicted by endemic violence, criminality, sexually transmitted diseases, welfare dependency, and drug abuse. Much of Dalrymple's writing is based on his experience of working with criminals and the mentally ill.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.””
Theodore Dalrymple[citation needed]
Life
Daniels was born in Kensington, London.[4] His father was a Communist businessman of Russian ancestry, while his Jewish mother was born in Germany.[5] She came to England as a refugee from the Nazi regime.[6] His grandfather had served as a major in the German Army during WW1.[7]
His work as a physician took him to: Southern Rhodesia (now, Zimbabwe), Tanzania, South Africa and the Gilbert Islands (now, Kiribati).[8] He returned to the United Kingdom in 1990, where he worked in London and Birmingham.[9]
In 2005, he retired early as a consultant psychiatrist.[10] He has a house in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and also a house in France.[11]
Regarding his pseudonym "Theodore Dalrymple", he wrote that he "chose a name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world".[12]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Conservative Conference | 15 May 2023 | 17 May 2023 | London United Kingdom | A 2023 conference on Conservativism |
References
- ↑ Ferner, R. E.; Daniels, A. M. (2003). "NEJM paper". The New England Journal of Medicine. Nejm.org. 348 (1): 81–82
- ↑ http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/dalrymple.htm?f=yes
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/terror-and-the-teddy-bear-society-1496682229
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67950.Theodore_Dalrymple
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=age5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22My+mother+was+a+refugee+from+Nazi+Germany%22
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=age5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22My+mother+was+a+refugee+from+Nazi+Germany%22
- ↑ Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline, By Theodore Dalrymple, (Ivan R. Dee, 2 Sep 2008), page 80
- ↑ A bit of a myth, A. M. Daniels, The Spectator, 26 August 1983
- ↑ The doctor is in, The New Criterion, 17 May 2004
- ↑ A doctor's farewell Archived 25 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine., The Spectator, 22 January 2005
- ↑ Minutes of the Extraordinary Meeting of Bridgnorth Town Council held in the Mayor's Parlour, College House on Monday, 28 October 2013 at 7.15pm
- ↑ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/where-nobody-knows-your-name/article4093441/
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