Manhattan Institute Issues Commentary to New Criterion: Sun of Childhood
December 12, 2023
December 12, 2023
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary to the New Criterion:
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Sun of Childhood
By Theodore Dalrymple
All four of my grandparents were refugees; my mother was a refugee, and her only sibling was twice a refugee by the age of thirty-five. Sometimes, therefore, I feel mildly guilty at my own comparatively smooth passage through life, as if it were in some sense my duty to have experienced it . . .
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Sun of Childhood
By Theodore Dalrymple
All four of my grandparents were refugees; my mother was a refugee, and her only sibling was twice a refugee by the age of thirty-five. Sometimes, therefore, I feel mildly guilty at my own comparatively smooth passage through life, as if it were in some sense my duty to have experienced it . . .