Writing for Quadrant, Dalrymple examines the pressures of instantaneous punditry in the media, arguing that much of what passes for expert commentary today is performed by “forgers” and “impostors” whose employers prioritize speed over genuine insight:

A newspaper not universally known or appreciated for its attachment to the literal truth used often to call me in the middle of my medical avocations to ask whether I could write a thousand words by four o’clock on some subject or other, and if I protested that I couldn’t because I knew nothing of the subject it would grant me an extension of half an hour, presumably for research, that is to say until four-thirty.

Read the full essay here.