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<title><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14821.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple]]></description><category domain="14821">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Ever-Expanding 'Discrimination' Definition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/cofnas-arday-and-the-ever-expanding-discrimination-definition/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ateacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain Can Always Get Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/britain-can-always-get-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Keir Starmer is dire, but his possible replacements offer no improvement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George Floyd &amp; the Distortions of Woke Martyrdom]]></title>
							<link>https://lawliberty.org/the-distortions-of-woke-martyrdom/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Floyd's death was wrong, but even those who should know better have turned him into something he was not: a righteous martyr to a cause.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racial Equity, Equality &amp; Bureaucrats' Charter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theepochtimes.com/racial-equity-equality-and-the-bureaucrats-charter_3671037.html?utm_source=partner</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reading one of the first new presidential executive orders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'was for me a depressing experience.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Cant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-age-of-cant</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These days, you must hold the right opinions and express none of the wrong ones'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deadly Superstitions in London]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/london-bridge-terror-attack-rehabilitation</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another terrorist attack reveals Britain's delusions about rehabilitation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Mass Shootings and the Role of Imitation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/mass-shootings-el-paso-dayton</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On mass shootings and the role of imitation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Even Medical Journals Are Plagued With PC Jargon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2019/07/24/even_medical_journals_are_plagued_with_pc_jargon_111239.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You would hope that medical journals were free from political correctness, but if so you would be sadly underestimating the thoroughness with which our intellectual redoubts have been colonised and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Britain's Political Class Is Betraying British Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/03/15/brexits-in-trouble-because-britains-political-class-never-wanted-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The British prime minister and her colleagues never wanted Britain to leave the EU, anyway.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Free-Speech Mob Comes to Britain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/speakers-cornered-15662.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my more pessimistic moments, I see in this episode the future of Britain. The next government could easily be formed by an unreconstructed admirer of Hugo Chavez. In March 2013, on the death of the Venezuelan leader, Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[State Islam in France]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/state-islam-france-15724.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Macron faces major questions regarding French secularism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stephen Paddock and the Unanswerable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/unanswerable-15472.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'll never find satisfying explanations for Stephen Paddock's evil, though it is human nature to try.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Theresa May's Incompetence Carries a High Price]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/britains-election-disaster-15247.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Terror and the Teddy Bear Society]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/cXjBOChzwx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only man I ever met whose ambition was to be a suicide bomber was an inmate at the British prison where I worked as a doctor in the 1990s and 2000s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right to Health]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/right-health-15218.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once something is a right, someone has to pay for it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[About the Campus 'Trigger' Warnings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0527td.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When my attention was drawn to an article by Jeet Heer in The New Republic about a supposed connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the so-called trigger warnings given to students on American campuses, I happened to be reading a short book called A Cadre School...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reeducation of Dinesh D'Souza]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0924td.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reading the New York Times account this morning of the sentence passed on Dinesh D'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Souza'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the filmmaker, writer, and outspoken critic of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for violating the laws relating to campaign finance, I was horrified to read the following: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'As part of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[British Health-Care: Universal Mediocrity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_3_otbie-british-health-care.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In April, the British Medical Journal published '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How the NHS Measures Up to Other Health Systems,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a report about two studies conducted by the New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'based Commonwealth Fund that compared the health-care systems of 14 advanced countries. On the 20 measures of comparison,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The European Crack-Up]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/2012/22_1_otbie-european-debt-crisis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Belgian journalist who interviewed me recently about the European debt crisis asked me whether I believed in the European Project. I replied that I would answer her question'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if she would tell me what the European Project actually was. By revealing my doubts, I proved to her that I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Postmortem of the British Riots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_otbie-british-riots.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Complex human events have no single or final explanation. The last word on the outbreak of looting and rioting that convulsed large parts of England, including London, in August will therefore never be heard. But some of the first words were foolish, or at least shallow, reflecting the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barbarians Inside Britain's Gates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would peasants in Bram Stoker's Transylvania. Indeed, well before the riots last week, respectable persons would not venture into the centers of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain's Riots Should Surprise No One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0810td.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population during the current riots has not surprised me in the least. I have been writing about it, in its slightly less acute manifestations, for the past 20 years. To have spotted it required no great...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kenneth Galbraith: Back In Vogue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_otbie-john-kenneth-galbraith.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Canadian university recently asked me to deliver its annual John Kenneth Galbraith Lecture, named for the economist who for much of my youth was the most famous member of his profession in the world. His books sold by the million and were available everywhere in cheap paperback...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is World's Faith Misplaced?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/dec/01/00006/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain's Bleak Houses, Low Expectations]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_otbie-british_children.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Theodore Dalrymple</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Does Sex Scandals Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dalrymple16mar16,0,4836059.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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