Our Culture, What's Left of It

Name: Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
ISBN: 9781566637213

The Mandarins and the Masses

Theodore Dalrymple

2007·360 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

essays

“the best journal article of 2004”
— David Brooks of the New York Times

This new collection of essays bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the break-down of Islam to the legalization of drugs. The book includes "When Islam Breaks Down."Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of settings, Dr. Dalrymple's acquaintance with the outer limits of human experience allows him to discover the universal in the local and the particular, and makes him impatient with the humbug and obscurantism that have too long marred our social and political discourse. His essays are incisive yet undogmatic, beautifully.

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