Our Culture, What's Left of It

Our Culture, What's Left of It, is the best and most important book yet written on the problems of our time. It has been called “impervious to political correctness, formless, uninhibited, brutally frank and brilliant,” and “dazzlingly intelligent”; brilliantly clear yet inventive in form, it captures the complexities and contradictions of a postmodern world with a sure but uncompromising hand. Weaving together a series of loosely connected but tightly argued essays that are as devastatingly insightful as they are provocative, Theodore Dalrymple identifies many cultural “pandas” in Western society which have become more numerous, more visible, and more powerful than ever before, in this volatile period when the wounds caused by globalization become increasingly apparent. Incisive, iconoclastic, and accessible to all those with something to say about it, Dr. Dalrymple consistently refuses to surrender or assent to destructive systems of thought, whether naked racism or modernist egalitarianism; fascistic ideologies or bourgeois values that are often expressed through gross hypocrisy; nihilism or cynical materialism. To do so would be to place oneself beyond criticism or any real struggle for change. All readers with any stake in Western culture will be inspired by this brilliant collection. ”