In the June issue of the august New Criterion, our cultured doctor attends an exhibition at the Museé Picasso in Paris of art that had been deemed ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis in Munich in 1937.

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The original exhibition, comprising “degenerate” (entartete) works mainly by German artists that had been confiscated and sequestered from German museums and collectors, was intended to provoke the contempt and hatred of its two million visitors. Indignation that the state had paid good taxpayer money for this art was intentionally aroused.

In last week’s Takimag column, our good doctor finds himself having to sit through a thoroughly awful impromptu piano performance at a French railway station.

It has been said that, in any large city, we are never very far from a rat. In life, we are never very far from a psychological puzzle or a philosophical question.

In the May issue of The Critic, our inquisitive doctor calls into question the typical British politically correct, progressive corporate propaganda.

With all this do-goodery, it is a wonder that anyone in the company has time for anything else, though obviously at least some employees do: for how else to explain that the chief executive is paid £6,630,000 a year, of which 84 per cent is bonuses, and has been given £6,000,000 in shares? This, of course, is only part of the company’s commitment to equity.

Dr. Dalrymple returns to The Oldie with a piece commenting on a recent Canadian study concerning the success of medical surgeries being impacted by their timing during the week.

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It is easier to start a health scare than to end one. Likewise, it’s easier to raise public anxieties than to calm them. Perhaps the clearest example is the worldwide panic over the alleged link between the MMR vaccine and childhood autism. No matter how many times the original research is shown to have been faulty to the point of fraud, a residue of suspicion remains in the public mind– to damaging effect.

Back at Takimag, our trusting doctor gets conned online while booking a hotel room after getting redirected to a scam website.

This was a minor inconvenience, but minor inconveniences add up, and life seems after a certain age to be more and more an accumulation or concatenation of minor inconveniences.

In his latest Takimag article, the dubious doctor observes the similarities between the use of language by Soviet communist apparatchiks and modern-day corporate managers.

Pains without anyone being in pain; warnings without anyone being warned; expectations without anyone who expects. Ghostly abstract mental entities float in an ether independently of any actual human minds.

In the May issue of the venerable New Criterion, the good doctor reviews a new book on the philosophy of Socrates written by an American philosophy professor.

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There is an important difference between avoiding a question and not asking it. There are infinitely many questions that I am not now asking, but that does not mean that I am avoiding them.

In last week’s Takimag column, our sardonic doctor proposes a novel way of determining who should get on the bus first. It is the end of the queue as we know it…

Why should the people who arrived first at the bus stop be the first to get on the bus? Just because they got there first, does it mean that their need to arrive at their destination is the most pressing or urgent? Certainly not.

In the April issue of New English Review, our favorite doctor gives his take on the tragic American use of atomic bombs against Japanese civilians after reading a new book on this controversial topic by an eminent British historian.

Moreover, in total war, in which whole populations are mobilised for a war effort, the distinction between military and civilian targets is blurred. When my mother’s flat was bombed, she was working in a factory making tanks (she had three jobs). Was she therefore a legitimate military target?