In the September edition of New English Review, Dr. Dalrymple details his various medical conditions and exposes why he has a low opinion of the current generation of youngsters.

My relationship with my age is peculiar and complicated. I envy the young but I detest them unless they are very nice, which I admit that a minority of them are. Of course, envy and detestation are not polar opposites by any means, and can easily go together. But I envy them for reasons quite different from those of my detestation of them.