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Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of Anthony Daniels, a former prison doctor and psychiatrist who now writes for the City Journal, The Spectator and other leading magazines and newspapers. Born in Britain in 1949, he trained as a doctor at Birmingham Medical School, then practised in Zimbabwe and Tanzania before returning to Birmingham where he was a prison doctor. He also worked in South America in the 1980's.
His German mother had fled to Britain to escape the Nazi regime, while his father had been a communist activist. This somewhat unlikely background produced onme of the truly great minds of his generation, with a clear and incisive insight into culture, society, politics, crime, and many other aspects of the human condition.
He is the Dietrich Wiesmann Fellow of the Manhattan Institute in New York, and is a prolific essayist on subjects ranging from travel to architecture as well as crime and society.
See Herald article here and part 2 here
National Radio interview MP3 here
Of Mailer and Murder; Article written by him shortly after his trip to NZ at New English Review
"The idea that we can all rub along together, without the law having to discriminate in favor of one set of cultural values rather than another, is worse than merely false: it makes no sense whatever." - Theodore Dalrymple