First Things RSS Feed - Theodore Dalrymple https://www.firstthings.com/author/theodore-dalrymple en-us Copyright 2020 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:02:34 -0400 https://d25wp47b6tla3u.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/theodore-dalrymple 60 Catastrophism and Control https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/06/catastrophism-and-control https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/06/catastrophism-and-control Mon, 01 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0400 Épidémies:
vrais dangers et fausses alertes

by didier raoult
michel lafon, 160 pages, €8.99


The Rules of Contagion:
Why Things Spread—and Why They Stop

by adam kucharski
basic, 352 pages, $30

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Identity as Ideology https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/02/identity-as-ideology https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/02/identity-as-ideology Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500 Like many persons possessing limited insight into the future, I had supposed that, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, utopianism would die out in the Western world. I was mistaken. Identity politics in the West is veering in the direction of totalitarianism. A book I read ­recently, Jusqu’à Raqqa: Avec les Kurdes contre Daech (“Until Raqqa: With the Kurds against Daesh”), by André Hébert, helps explain why. The author—who for obvious reasons uses a pseudonym—is a young Parisian from a bourgeois Catholic family who became a convinced Marxist at the age of fourteen, and has remained one for sixteen years until the present day.

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France Fractured https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/12/france-fractured https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/12/france-fractured Sun, 01 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500 L’archipel français:
naissance d’une nation multiple et divisée

by jérôme fourquet
le seuil, 384 pages, 22€

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Crimes in Concrete https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/crimes-in-concrete https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/crimes-in-concrete Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0400 Making Dystopia:
The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism

by james stevens curl
oxford, 592 pages, $60

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Letter to an Aspiring Doctor https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/12/letter-to-an-aspiring-doctor https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/12/letter-to-an-aspiring-doctor Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500 You tell me you are thinking, my dear Stephen, of medicine as a career, but you wonder whether you have the ability or the temperament for it. You say that you have wanted to be a doctor ever since your family practitioner visited you at home as a child when you had severe tonsillitis. He seemed a hero to you then, and you would like to emulate him.

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Rare and Common Sense https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/11/rare-and-common-sense https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/11/rare-and-common-sense Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0400 Simon Leys:
Navigator Between Worlds

by philippe paquet
translated by julie rose
la trobe, 720 pages, $59.99

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The Necessity of Judgment https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/10/the-necessity-of-judgment https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/10/the-necessity-of-judgment Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0400 Montaigne: A Life
by philippe desan
translated by steven rendall and lisa neal
princeton, 832 pages, $39.95

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The Brothers Grim https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/06/the-brothers-grim https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/06/the-brothers-grim Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Hitch-22
by christopher hitchens 
twelve, 448 pages, $26
 

The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
by peter hitchens
zondervan, 224 pages, $22

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