“Humor, fearlessness, seriousness, and honesty: the qualities that are hated with an equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies that are contending for tenure in the humanities departments of our universities.”

—  Theodore Dalrymple

Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)

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English doctor and writer 1949

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