Lords of Ill Discipline By James Bowman

A visit to the Ethics and Public Policy Center recently by Dr. Anthony Daniels, who writes under the name of Theodore Dalrymple for the (London) Spectator, the New Criterion and City Journal, among many other publications, painted a desperately gloomy picture of life among the British underclass -- which he had spent many years as a prison doctor observing at close quarters. Only his wit and unfailing good humor -- though it is often of the gallows kind -- kept his rapt audience from sinking into the darkest despair. But there is or ought to be hope in the fact that, as the doctor always stresses, the social pathologies he observes are invariably the result of individual choices and the resulting cultural breakdown. In theory, if he and others who can see what he sees can also persuade enough people of what is wrong with those choices and that culture, both can be corrected.

In theory.

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