<div>Theodore Dalrymple is a retired physician and psychiatrist. He is a contributing editor of <I>City Journal</I> and frequent contributor to the London <I>Spectator</I>, <I>The New Criterion</I>, and other leading magazines and newspapers. He is most recently author of <I>Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline, Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas</I>, and <I>Threats of Pain and Ruin</I>.</div> - (Perseus Publishing)