“Are there any depths of cruelty and absurdity to which bureaucracy cannot plunge?” Dalrymple asks in his weekly BMJ column. “It seems unlikely that there are, an impression confirmed by reading Jean-Claude Dreyfus’s short and laconic Souvenirs lointains de Buchenwald et Dora, 1943-1945.”
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- So Little Done
- If Symptoms Persist
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Recent Comments
- Bob Hay on Why Theodore Dalrymple is For All Time
- James Adrian Smith on Today’s Obsession With Race
- Mariana Bell on Why Kids Don’t Know Their Place at the Table
- TMay on Ghost in the Machine
- David Seri on Downfall of the House of Pahlavi
- Matt on Downfall of the House of Pahlavi
- Peter on The Mass Surrender of Individuality in Rock Music and Fascism
- chip hurst PT on Is Physical Therapy Overrated?
- Michael Cavanaugh on False Apology Syndrome
- Michael Cavanaugh on False Apology Syndrome
Looking at Western History very broadly, we have lived through feudal military aristocracy, through an industrial revolution and the Reform Acts, etc., and thence, in the 20th century, into the Age of Bureaucracy.
The question is: is this the end of it all, really? Or, where do we go from here, and can we go more quickly please?