In Praise of Prejudice by Theodore Dalrymple

Prejudice Is Wrong, So Lack of Prejudice Is Right     1
The Uses of Metaphysical Skepticism     6
History Teaches Us Anything We Like     8
Why We Prefer the History of Disaster to that of Achievement     13
The Effect of Pedagogy Without Prejudice     17
Prejudice Necessary to Family Life     21
One Prejudice Always Replaced by Another     25
The Cruel Effect of Not Instilling the Right Prejudices     30
The Inevitability of Prejudice     33
The Conventionality of Unconventionality     39
The Overestimation of Rationality in Choice     42
Authority Necessary to the Accumulation of Knowledge     47
The Supposed Equality of All Opinions, Provided They Are One's Own     52
Custom Supposedly Wrong Because It Is Custom     55
A Partial Reading of Mill Leads to Unbridled Egotism     60
The Difficulty of Founding Common Decency on First Principles     63
The Law of Conservation of Righteous Indignation, and its Connections to the Expansion of Human Rights     68
The Paradox of Radical Individualism Leading to Authoritarianism     72
Racial Discrimination Being Bad, All Discrimination is Bad     75
Rejection of Prejudice Not a Good in Itself     79
The Impossibility of the Mind as a Blank Slate     85
The Ideal of Equality of Opportunity Necessary to a World Without Prejudice     90
Equality of Opportunity Inherently Totalitarian     94
The Rejection of Authority as Egotism     100
Prejudice a Requirement of Benevolence     104
The Dire Social Effects of Abandoning Certain Prejudices     107
The Inescapability of Commandments of Which Justification Is Unprovable     114
The Exercise of Judgment Unavoidable, Even in the Absence of Metaphysically Unassailable Principles, and Therefore Prejudices Necessary and Salutary     119
No Virtue Without Prejudice     123
Index     127