Monday: Dalrymple on the Fate of “Old Europe”
by The Editors
February 3rd, 2006
Denis Dutton, editor of Arts and Letters Daily, has called Theodore Dalrymple "a writer of genius: lucid, unsentimental, and profoundly honest . . . one of the great essayists of our age."
This Monday, Dalrymple will kick off the new issue of Cato Unbound with an essay that asks and answers the urgent question: Is "Old Europe" Doomed?
Here's a taste of what's in store:
The principle motor of Europe’s current decline is, in my view, its obsession with social security, which has created rigid social and economic systems that are extremely resistant to change . . .
A bureaucratic monster is created that takes on a life of its own, that is not only uneconomic but anti-economic, and that can be reformed only at the cost of social unrest that politicians naturally wish to avoid. Inertia intermittently punctuated by explosion is therefore the most likely outcome.
Is there hope? Tune your browsers to Cato Unbound Monday morning to hear Dalrymple's answer!
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