Life At the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2001.
The denial of individual responsibility and free will yields a rotten fruit when those ideas, promulgated by intellectuals (cultural leaders such as teachers) and practiced by the functionaries of the welfare state, are adopted by the weakest members of society (namely the poor and unintelligent, or merely ignorant). The excellent essays comprising this book arose from Dalrymple's experience as a physician/psychiatrist in Birmingham, England and were originally published in City Journal.
Links to Book Reviews and Other Essays by Dalrymple:
- Manhattan Institute (Links to Book Reviews on the left side of this page.)
- Brothers Judd (Links to Book Reviews and other Dalrymple essays at the bottom of this page.)
- The Social Affairs Unit (A London public policy research group.)
- Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2005. (A more recent collection of his City Journal essays.)