Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
In the case of grocery stores in San Francisco that close because the burden of crime is too much, those responsible are the criminals, not the store owners.
The murder of a 16-year-old boy at a village party in rural France has revealed with stark clarity the tensions that lie near the surface of French society.