In The Critic, Dalrymple takes aim at the concept of self-esteem, arguing that if there is any connection between litter in Britain and self-esteem, it is that the litterer has grossly inflated self-esteem. Self-respect is another thing ent…
Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews the 25th anniversary edition of Life at the Bottom in the Deseret News, finding Dalrymple’s observations about the ideology that enables the underclass as pertinent as ever. Theodore Dalrymple, the nom de plume
In The Telegraph, Dalrymple argues that the ideology behind the Valdo Calocane case—the belief that every hospitalisation is a defeat for humanity and that compulsory treatment is inherently prejudicial—has long rotted Britain’s psychiatric…
Writing in Taki’s Magazine, Dalrymple reflects on the police response to the murder of politician Ann Widdecombe and how the force’s transparent lie that there was “nothing to suggest” a political motive reveals a police more oriented towar…
In The Critic, Dalrymple examines a BMJ report on harassment in the NHS that declares racism a persistent reality while quietly presenting statistics showing that white doctors are assaulted more frequently than their ethnic minority collea…
Such a HUGE honour and thrill to have Theodore Dalrymple with us today! pic.twitter.com/B6tPjuwFvK — Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy) March 4, 2026 In City Journal, Dalrymple writes about his visit to the Michaela Community School in no…
In The American Conservative, Dalrymple puzzles over the golden orioles in his French garden—fewer this year—and the extraordinary mystery of how their migratory behaviour could have evolved, finding in it a meditation on man’s insatiable n…
In The American Conservative, Dalrymple contemplates the picture-perfect Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber and finds himself uneasy at its very perfection. I suspect that you might feel never quite at your ease in Rothenburg ob der
In The Epoch Times, Dalrymple observes that while there is fierce controversy over whether male-to-female transgender athletes should compete in women’s sports, there is no equivalent debate about the reverse—and that this telling asymmetry…
In The American Conservative, Dalrymple pays tribute to the painter George Rowlett, who died at 84, and reflects on the fear of beauty that afflicts so much of modern art, a neurosis from which Rowlett was mercifully free. The fact is that
In the New English Review, Dalrymple reflects on attending a Haydn festival in his small English town, where the audience’s advanced age prompts melancholy thoughts about a civilisation turning its back on itself and where the young musicia…
Dalrymple is interviewed by the Romanian channel DC News, discussing how psychology has been transformed from a discipline into a quasi-religion and how the therapeutic culture it has spawned has undermined personal responsibility and socia…