A British doctor, psychiatrist, and profile essayist, Theodore Dalrymple is not his real name — it's a nom de plume, which he assumed early on to protect the confidentiality of his patients and perhaps himself. For years, he's worked in "slum" — that"s his word — hospitals and prisons, but his reach and his interests are far wider: from slums to travelogues to Shakespeare to intellectuals and their effect on the social mores of our time. Underneath his demure English accent is a fierce, plainspoken man who's alarmed by the direction in which Britain, and no doubt the rest of the Western world, is going. Theodore Dalrymple is the author of Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses.