August 2010 | Standpoint Magazine

Does Park51 Really Matter?

For the past week I have been in New York, and on Tuesday took the afternoon to visit Ground Zero and Park51, the site of the Cordoba Initiative's proposed Islamic centre.

August 27, 2010

Canadian Idol terrorist?

I honestly don't know what to say about this one. On the one hand, it's become a depressingly familiar tale - a young Pakistani émigré to the West arrested on terrorism charges.

August 27, 2010

Editorial image for "Hayek Top Slot Shock" — In spite of his reputation, Glenn Beck is introducing huge audiences to…

In spite of his reputation, Glenn Beck is introducing huge audiences to high-brow political and economic ideas Television exposure can turn an unheard-of and undeserving book into a bestseller. But could even

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Economy·Philosophy·Politics

Buried History

The war efforts of thousands of allied Muslim soldiers in the two World Wars points to our shared heritage

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Islam·Military

Adieu to Claret

The spiralling cost of Bordeaux means the wine will soon be the preserve of millionaires and wine journalists alone

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Economy·Food

It Took a Village

A taxi driver eavesdrops on a conversation between two of Chelsea Clinton's wedding guests

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Modern Life

Labor Omnia Vincit

Teaching Latin in primary state schools may be the answer to decling standards in literacy

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Education·Language

Come Back, Trollope

Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Literature·UK Politics·Westminster

Bent’s Beautiful Mistress

The Magnus Carlsen phenomenon has a precedent: that of the marauding Viking, Bent Larsen

August 24, 2010

Chess

Journo Listless

‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’

August 24, 2010

European Eye·Media·North America

A Clever Fool

JONATHAN FOREMAN How do you reconcile Robert Harris the clever, sensitive, erudite and sensible author of "Fatherland" and two excellent novels based on the life of Cicero, with the politically correct prig

August 23, 2010

Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca

'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice to the severity of this calamity and its

August 23, 2010

Dispatches·Israel