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Dalrymple On British Riotsl
Dalrymple On British Riotsl
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Theodore Dalrymple
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City Journal
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comically laxexcept, that is, for the victims of crime. For the rioters, crime has become the default setting of their behavior; the surprising thing about the riots is not that they have occurred, but that they did not occur sooner and did not become chronic. Theodore Dalrymple, a physician, is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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