In The Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan profiles Dalrymple at length on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Life at the Bottom, covering his encounters with ill-mannered Britons, his observations on the welfare state, and his insistence that the problems of the underclass are cultural rather than material.

It is dehumanizing to think of social problems, or social pathology, as if human beings were mere inanimate objects, reacting like billiard balls to other billiard balls, without ideas or agency of their own.

Read the interview here. If nothing else, click just to see the caricature of TD.