The Doctor Is In

Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses, by Theodore Dalrymple (Ivan R.Dee, 352 pp., $27.50)

WHATaphenomenon Theodore Dalrymple is! There is no one else writing today quite like him. Liberals have fashioned a world in the image of their ignorance and naïveté, and he mocks it with unceasing brilliance and a unique gallows humor. Fighting this rearguard action, he reveals himself to be a man of immense culture and the widest experience. And like some Old Testament prophet, he cries Woe, Woe from a standpoint of absolute moral conviction. Doom may be closing in upon us all, but it will never extinguish his light.

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David Pryce-Jones

David Pryce-Jones (1936–2025) was a British author and commentator and served as a senior editor of National Review.

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Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses, by Theodore Dalrymple (Ivan R.Dee, 352 pp., $27.50)

WHATaphenomenon Theodore Dalrymple is! There is no one else writing today quite like him. Liberals have fashioned a world in the image of their ignorance and naïveté, and he mocks it with unceasing brilliance and a unique gallows humor. Fighting this rearguard action, he reveals himself to be a man of immense culture and the widest experience. And like some Old Testament prophet, he cries Woe, Woe from a standpoint of absolute moral conviction. Doom may be closing in upon us all, but it will never extinguish his light.