Self-Control Goes Off the Rails ^55.4%

The American Conservative - By Theodore Dalrymple - 6/28/2026, 4:03 AM

Biased Writer Voice 18.1% - Hasty Generalization 16.6% - Negativity Bias 16.3%

Small incidents can reveal much of significance beyond themselves: ways of thought, for example, or even the nature of cultures and subcultures. For example, on the train from London to Paris recently, I sat near a small group of young English women, dressed in the cheap, glossy, figure-hugging finery that, no matter their figures, they... more