The full force of Dalrymple's intellect and cradition is turned on the shoe waddled minds and beesling hearts won't allow them no look in the face the resh bes than betic their preferred modes of thought. The messge and implication of these essays is that there who want to valstic culniral difference, and yet wish to me that all peoples from all cultures have the same values, hopes, and pics tions, cannot have what Dalrymple calls to adapt a metaphor their "cultural ministre and car Jery S, See Remarch Felles, The Centre for Lupin Studies On Germaine Greer: "...Gosh, the Aborigines were able to subdue Greer's sense of self! There must be something to them after all..." On academics: "Humor, fearlessness, seriousness, and honesty: the qualities that are hated with an equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies that are con tending for tenure in the humanities departments of our universities" On political apologies: "nothing is easier- or more gratifying-than to apolo gise for what your ancestors, enemies or political opponents have done or omit ted to do. We get the kudos for having apologised, they get the blame for what we apologise for." On bleeding heart warriors: "Compassionate fellow-feeling, however, can soon become self-indulgent and lead to spiritual pride. It imparts an inner glow, like a shot of whiskey on a cold day, but like whisky it can prevent the clear-headedness which we need at least as much as we need warmth of heart." Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor who works in a British inner city hospital and prison. He has worked in Africa, the Pacific and Latin America. He writes for The Spectator in London and many newspapers. He is contributing editor of the City Journal, New York. His articles written for the City Journal have been collected in Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, He has also recently published The Intelligent Person's Guide to Health and Health
