I first encountered this trenchant critic of contemporary culture a couple of years ago when I read his book
Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses.
His scathing commentary on modern Western society didn't surprise me altogether, but the way he
wrote it and his supporting examples were astonishing. He has been called a modern George Orwell.
I highly recommend reading some of his essays. There are some good websites about him and lots of his stuff is available on the internet.
Here are some good links:
The Skeptical Doctor (Dedicated to the work of Theodore Dalrymple)
Life at the Bottom (Dalrymple's 2003 book available free online via City Journal)
CBC Ideas Interview (An interview with Dalrymple from 2006)
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