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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Theodore Dalrymple on Degeneracy in Britain

Theodore Dalrymple, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who has been writing about cultural decay in Britain for 20 years, has written the clearest piece on the current rioting there in City Journal. Click below to read the very succinct summary of the cause of the riots.

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0810td.html

Monday, May 2, 2011

City Journal on Bin Laden's Demise

The inestimable City Journal, the quarterly magazine published by the Manhattan Institute, today provided us with five excellent essays, by five of their very best contributors, on the historic event of yesterday. They're all short, easy to read, and worth sharing with friends.

Just click on the name of the author to read the essay.

Sol Stern

Andrew Klavan

Victor Davis Hanson

Guy Sorman

Theodore Dalrymple

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Theodore Dalrymple on Greeks Demanding Gifts

Theodore Dalrymple writing succinctly in City Journal warns that the problems in Greece are soon to be manifest in much of the Western world.

The Greek demonstrators did not understand, or did not want to understand, that if there were justice in the world, many people, including themselves, would be worse rather than better off, and that a reduction in their salaries and perquisites was not only economically necessary but just. They had never really earned their wages in the first place; politicians borrowed the money and then dispensed largesse, like monarchs throwing coins to the multitudes.

It is an obvious but often forgotten lesson of economics: what cannot continue will not continue.

Here's the whole piece:
Know Thyself by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal 7 May 2010

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Theodore Dalrymple: When Freedom Isn't Free

Theodore Dalrymple, a retired British psychiatrist (think Krauthammer) and prison doctor, whose real name is Anthony Daniels, published one of his usual caustic pieces in City Journal yesterday. He's one of the best writers on the planet, and has had one of the most interesting lives (you can read about it if you click on his real name above). Here's the piece from yesterday.

When Freedom Isn't Free by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal 14 April 2010

Transubstantiation

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”

Pope Benedict XVI

The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.

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