In this interview with Laurie Wastell on The Sceptic, Dalrymple marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Life at the Bottom by revisiting the violence and nihilism he observed as a prison doctor, arguing that liberal ideology rather than poverty is the true engine of crime and social breakdown. He also discusses the hypocrisies of the caring classes, the unforeseen consequences of the therapeutic mindset, and modern anarcho-tyranny.

Watch the full interview here.

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.

In this City Journal podcast, Dalrymple joins Rob Henderson and Rafael Mangual for a wide-ranging discussion on the real drivers of antisocial behavior and crime, the growing disconnect between policymakers and the communities most affected by violence, and how elite “luxury beliefs” shape public narratives around criminality.

What I found was that most criminals were actually certainly at one level resistant to the idea of themselves as feathers on the wind of circumstance or as just vectors of forces. So one day a repeat burglar came to me… He said, “Do you think, doctor, I burgled because of my childhood?” And I said, “No, I’ve got absolutely nothing to do with that.”… And he said, “Well, why do I do it?” And I said, “Well, you’re lazy and you want things that you’re not prepared to work for.”

Listen to the podcast here.

In The Spectator, Dalrymple speaks with Rob Henderson about the cultural forces that have created a Western underclass and why poverty of the spirit, rather than of the pocket, is the real affliction of modern life. Their conversation marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dalrymple’s Life at the Bottom.

I had spent a lot of time in Africa and traveling the world, where material goods were infinitely worse than anything in Britain. Yet in certain respects poverty in Britain was spiritually and psychologically worse than what I had seen in Africa, where people actually went hungry! So I came to the conclusion that there was something other than mere absence of economic wellbeing that explained what I was seeing.

Read the interview here.

The good doctor appears on the new podcast of Australia’s Quadrant to discuss the multitude of severe problems arising from mass migration into Western countries.

Theodore Dalrymple appears on The Thinking Class podcast with host John Gillam for a typically interesting and engaging discussion about some classic Dalrymple topics, which are outlined below.

In this episode, Theodore and I think out loud about the state of Britain, the influences that have led to increased crime and moral degradation in the country, the impact of widespread skepticism on our culture, why non-judgmentalism is not a worthy moral position to take and how it has become so prevalent, why we should beware of promoting pauperism in society, the importance of emphasizing moral agency in people’s lives and why each of us needs to take responsibility for our actions and avoid adopting a victim mentality, why poverty is not an unbreakable state, and much, much more.

Our favorite doctor dialed in to Chicago’s AM560 radio station in October to opine on the ongoing U.S. state-mandated form of child abuse called ‘gender transitioning.’ The interview kicks off around the 5′ mark.

Dr. Dalrymple takes part in a 100-minute long interview on Dr. Hannah Spier’s Substack called Psychobabble. Dr. Spier’s summary is below:

In this Psychobabble episode, I sit down with Dr. Anthony Daniels also known as Theodore Dalrymple — a psychiatrist, former prison doctor, and acclaimed author known for his incisive critiques of modern psychology and societal trends. We discuss misconceptions in psychology, the links between fatherlessness and criminality, the roots of addiction, why some women tolerate domestic violence and the nature of criminal behaviour and human agency.

The good doctor made a short but memorable appearance on NewsNation back in March to opine on one of his favorite topics.