Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses /
Dalrymple, Theodore.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee,
2005.
"Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire.
Dalrymple, Theodore.
Culture
Social problems.
Civilization, Modern.
Physicians
Prison physicians