The New Criterion

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Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels's most recent book is In Praise of Prejudice (Encounter Books). Hewas born in 1949. After qualifying as a doctor, he worked in what was then Rhodesia, followed by South Africa, before returning for three years training as a psychiatrist in London’s East End. Three and a half years in the Gilbert Islands were interspersed with some South American wandering, and then between 1984 and 1986 he worked in Tanzania. His first book, Coups and Cocaine, was followed by Fool or Physician, subtitled ‘the memoirs of a sceptical doctor.’ Zanzibar to Timbuktu, his trek across Africa by public transport was published to great acclaim in 1988, and was a runner-up in the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

article archive

The costs of abstraction | November 2009

On the intellectual irresponsibility of Soviet sympathizers.

The prophet of personal space | October 2009

D. H. Lawrence reconsidered.

Always in the wrong place | June 2009

On the relics of oppression.

Bollocks to vulgarity | May 2009

On lowness that proclaims itself.

Cats may look at kings | April 2009

On the cult of celebrity.

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