Friday 28 August 2015

Smith on Dalrymple

Peter Smith provides a pithy review of  Dalrymple's book 'Spoilt Rotten', which I have had the good sense/fortune to read and will in due course add to my collection.
A rather perspicacious excerpt:
Human relations more generally, he suggests, have been caught in the sentimental mindset where obligations and duty have run second place to an entitlement to be happy. He looks at the disintegration of family life and the undermining of the institution of marriage aided by “intellectuals” who see it as standing in the way of state power wielded by them.

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