TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalrymple,Theodore
TI  - Our culture, what's left of it: the mandarins and the masses 
SN  - 1566636434
AV  - HM621 .D35 2005
U1  - 610.92 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Ivan R. Dee
KW  - Dalrymple, Theodore.
KW  - Culture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Prison physicians
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1945-
N1  - "Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso; Includes index; Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire
ER  -