[bgill]

I recalled an experiment carried out at a detention center for young delinquents, whose rates of bad and aggressive behavior went down significantly soon after they arrived, when multivitamins were added to their diets.

Yeah, it was the vitamins that did it, not the discipline.

[OddLane]

The imposed structure undoubtedly had a large impact-as Dalrymple would be the first to admit-but I think it's more holistic than that.

These are adolescents who not only come from fatherless homes, but homes where there is no discipline and probably no one who has completed their secondary education.

Fundamentals such as basic nutrition and normative social behavior are foreign to them.

Dalrymple has written some brilliant essays exploring how terrible cultural ideas have filtered down through the ruling class and devastated heretofore working class communities.