Wishes, Blame, and an Excruciating Death

Wishes, Blame, and an Excruciating Death
A poster showing late Ogoni human rights activists Ken Saro-Wiwa hangs at his father's sitting room at Bane town, Nigeria, on Nov. 19, 2003. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
Theodore Dalrymple
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When Queen Elizabeth II, at 96 years old, was close to death, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University named Uju Anya, whose areas of inquiry include “applied linguistics as a practice of social justice and translanguaging in world language pedagogy,” published her desire that the queen should die an excruciating death.

Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple
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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.”
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