Theodore Dalrymple is a retired physician and psychiatrist who worked in a general hospital and prison in England. He wrote a weekly column in the Spectator about his experiences for 14 years and has written widely on other subjects. Among other books, he has written Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality and Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York.

“A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R’s.”

• Foreword Rob HendersonIntroduction GRIM REALITY The Knife Went In Goodbye, Cruel World Reader, She Married Him, Alas Tough Love It Hurts, Therefore I Am Festivity, and Menace We Don’t Want No Education Uncouth Chic The Heart of a Heartless World There’s No Damned Merit in It Choosing to Fail Free to Choose What is Poverty? Do Sties Make Pigs? Lost in the Ghetto And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day GRIMMER THEORY The Rush from Judgment What Causes Crime? How Criminologists Foster Crime Policemen in Wonderland Zero Intolerance Seeing Is Not Believing

Theodore Dalrymple is a retired physician and psychiatrist who worked in a general hospital and prison in England. He wrote a weekly column in the Spectator about his experiences for 14 years and has written widely on other subjects. Among other books, he has written Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality and Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York.

“A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R’s.”

• Foreword Rob HendersonIntroduction GRIM REALITY The Knife Went In Goodbye, Cruel World Reader, She Married Him, Alas Tough Love It Hurts, Therefore I Am Festivity, and Menace We Don’t Want No Education Uncouth Chic The Heart of a Heartless World There’s No Damned Merit in It Choosing to Fail Free to Choose What is Poverty? Do Sties Make Pigs? Lost in the Ghetto And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day GRIMMER THEORY The Rush from Judgment What Causes Crime? How Criminologists Foster Crime Policemen in Wonderland Zero Intolerance Seeing Is Not Believing