In Diagnosis: Decadence, Stefan Beck laments that more people don’t read the works of Theodore Dalrymple — whose recent City Journal essays have been compiled into Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses:
Dalrymple has seen more and done more than most people, and whatever topic he brings that to bear on — sex, drugs, serial murder, poetry, or public morality — he tells the tale with great style and humane wit. If only his work were wider read by those not already disposed to his arguments.