Theodore Dalrymple is a pseudonym. When he’s at home, he’s Anthony Daniels–yes, yes, like C3PO, it must make him nuts–and sometimes he writes under his real name.
Here he is
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Guarding-the-boundaries-3979
at The New Criterion, making uncommon sense about moral relativism.
And Robert will just have to forgive him for quoting Matthew Arnold.
2 responses to “A Little Extra Note”
He does seem to make sense a lot of the time – under either name.
As for his comments about sex laws – here’s an odd case involving a consensual relationship between a 14 and a 22 year old. I can’t seem to find out who reported the situation; it doesn’t appear to have been the girl after having been dumped. And in spite of the shock and horror expressed by various parties, I don’t know what I’d do if I was responsible for a sexually active 14-year-old who was passionately attached to a local layabout.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7754247.stm
Unnecessary. Sadly, skill with prose or poetry is not the exclusive property of the wise and virtuous.