HeyJaredTheodore Dalrymple
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The American Conservative
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- Aug 9, 2026
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Propriety Is the Basis of Freedom (opens the original)
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When “obedience to the unenforceable” falls by the wayside, expect both disorder and tyranny to take its place. It is by no means uncommon to hear someone reply to criticism of his conduct by saying that there was no law against it. This is a sinister reply, at least implicitly, for it suggests that what the law does not forbid is permitted in all other senses: in other words, that the law provides the sole criteria by which we are to judge our conduct. No doubt there are some legislators who wo
Something Doesn’t Look Right (opens the original)
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What emergency could possibly justify omnipresent bureaucratic hectoring? One might think that a severely alcoholic Stalinist could never be a good writer, let alone a fine novelist, but the case of Patrick Hamilton refutes this commonsensical opinion. His novel of an English boarding house during the war, The Slaves of Solitude, published in 1947, is a beautifully observed and completely non-ideological study of the character of the residents of just such an establishment. If one had to guess t
On the Death and Consolations of Reading (opens the original)
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Looking for my key amid the shrubbery, I found a fossil instead. Slight setbacks may have disproportionate effects upon one’s mood, and despair may be induced by trivia. For example, the other day I lost the key to my post-box somewhere between the latter and the house, 500 yards away. The track is somewhat overgrown, and despite several prolonged searches, I could not find the key. Even on the very small scale of my own life, this was no tragedy, but the inconvenience of it—having to buy and in
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