Not With a Bang But a Whimper

No writer today is more adept and incisive than Theodore Dalrymple in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. His brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It.

Preface	p. ix
Artists and Ideologues
The Gift of Language	p. 5
What Makes Dr. Johnson Great?	p. 17
Truth vs. Theory	p. 33
A Drinker of Infinity	p. 39
Ibsen and His Discontents	p. 54
The Specters Haunting Dresden	p. 71
What the New Atheists Don't See	p. 83
The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare	p. 95
Politics and Culture
The Roads to Serfdom	p. 109
How Not to Do It	p. 123
A Prophetic and Violent Masterpiece	p. 135
It's This Bad	p. 150
Real Crime, Fake Justice	p. 161
Delusions of Honesty	p. 172
The Terrorists Among Us	p. 184
Suicide Bombers	p. 196
Multiculturalism Starts Losing Its Luster	p. 208
In the Asylum	p. 219
A Murderess's Tale	p. 231
Index	p. 243
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper

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