February 2010 | Page 2 of 4 | Standpoint Magazine

Mogadishu: Armageddon on Steroids

‘The fighting in Somalia can no longer be dismissed as an obscure domestic struggle in an unimportant country of no wider relevance to the world. The crackle of machinegun fire in Mogadishu,

February 18, 2010

Africa·Dispatches·War on Terror

On Being an Essayist

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

February 18, 2010

Books·Literature

A Brain of Two Halves

The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist

February 18, 2010

Books·Science

Rio’s Heart of Darkness

The World cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics are an incentive and an opportunity to address inequality and drug-related violence in Rio de Janeiro. Will the state try to heal the

February 18, 2010

Dispatches·Latin America