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T<\/span>heodore Dalrymple has been a favorite essayist of mine for years (see my review <\/a>of his book: Our Culture, What’s Left of It). He writes for City Journal<\/a>, arguably one of the better online magazines in existence today that is published by the Manhattan Institute<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A prison doctor before retiring, Dalrymple sees the decline of his native Britain not in terms of systemic injustice (Progressivism) but as a collapse of character and virtue, particularly among the leaders who, in an earlier era, recognized the privileges of income, wealth, even birth imposed an obligation to serve that has in recent generations been lost.<\/p>\n

Dalrymple’s latest book is Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality<\/a> (I have not read it yet). Michael Mattheson Miller, friend and colleague posted a review of the book on his website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dalrymple, a retired psychiatrist, addresses everything from Freud and psychotherapy to behaviorism, cognitive behavioral therapy, the \u201creal me\u201d fallacy, genetics and the trends within neuroscience that try to reduce the complexity of human motivations, desires, choices, emotional responses, and everything else to a function of certain parts of the brain.<\/p>\n

The problems with psychology reflect some of the key problems of our age, notably an incoherent commitment to empiricist rationalism mixed with technological utopianism that thinks we can solve any problem if we can just arrange society, education, the economy, or the neurotransmitters in the right way. But as Dalrymple notes, real life experience (and good literature) show the folly of such an approach.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly I need to read the book.<\/p>\n

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This English writer, prison doctor and psychiatrist has traveled the world, talked with the ordinary people elites avoid and warns America to stop its intellectual dishonesty to restore a healthy society.<\/p>\n

He thinks his own country is incentivizing the decline of its culture with policies and has insightful suggestions for America, if we will only listen.<\/p>\n

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