Midnight Maxims

We all have those sleepless moments late at night when our mind races from one thought to another. Theodore Dalrymple has recently used such moments to collect his thoughts in the form of maxims: those pithy statements of seemingly obvious but overlooked truths. There are 365 of them here, well more than a year's worth of contemplation. By stripping away unnecessary qualifications, Dalrymple's maxims force us to confront the universal and the timeless. Readers will be both provoked and enli...