Anthony Daniels is a contributing editor of City Journal. He was born in 1949. After qualifying as a doctor, he worked in what was then Rhodesia, followed by South Africa, before returning for three years training as a psychiatrist in London’s East End. Three and a half years in the Gilbert Islands were interspersed with some South American wandering, and then between 1984 and 1986 he worked in Tanzania. His first book, Coups and Cocaine, was followed by Fool or Physician, subtitled "the memoirs of a sceptical doctor.” Zanzibar to Timbuktu, his trek across Africa by public transport was published to great acclaim in 1988, and was a runner-up in the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Successive books have included Good and Evil in the Garden of Art (Criterion Books).
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Letter from Porto September 2023
Lusitania sinking
On modern barbarians in ancient cities.
Reconsiderations June 2023
A quarry of quandaries
On the plays The Eldest Son & Justice by John Galsworthy.
Books February 2023
Specific idiocy
A review of Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovico Silva.
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Dec 14, 2022
Frost in the sun
A review of The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World by Andrew Doyle.
Oct 14, 2022
Self-preservation regime
On the present state of academia.
Aug 17, 2022
Modern orthodoxy in “Elizabeth Finch”
On Elizabeth Finch, by Julian Barnes.
March 09, 2016
Anthony Daniels & James Panero on Good and Evil in the Garden of Art
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James Panero discusses Good and Evil in the Garden of Art, Anthony Daniels’s new book of essays, out March 10 from Criterion Books, with the author.