March 2013 | Page 2 of 3 | Standpoint Magazine

Only Connect

In the fast-paced and ever-changing world of technology very few commentators have stopped to examine the business practices of a behemoth like Google

March 25, 2013

Counterpoints·Technology

Internet Invaders

The politically incoherent Anonymous 'hacktivists' are causing more harm than good in the dispute in Borneo

March 25, 2013

Counterpoints·Technology

Lost in Translation

As has been the case for hundreds of years, the appointment of Pope Francis was announced in Latin. But the BBC and Sky News didn't know their quas from their elbows

March 25, 2013

Counterpoints·Language

He Stood with Giants

Gennadi Sosonko's intimate personal knowledge of the Soviet Union's greatest grandmasters is unrivaled — and he was a useful player himself

March 25, 2013

Chess·Communism

Could You Eat A Horse?

It it a great paradox that our culture glorifies celebrity chefs when, as a nation, we increasingly refuse to spend money feeding ourselves

March 25, 2013

Culture & Anarchy·Modern Life

Literary Biography is on Life Support

The art of recording a writer’s career will have to be reinvented to survive in the internet era

March 25, 2013

Critique·Literature

The Dawn of Obamageddon

'The Obama administration has done everything in its power to terrify ordinary Americans with his dystopian vision of what the sequester will mean to them'

March 25, 2013

Dispatches·US Politics

Women Come Last in Syrian Refugee Camps

'The low status of women in Syria and other Arab nations — as well as the cultural relativism practised by the agencies mandated to protect them — has resulted in abuse and

March 25, 2013

Dispatches·Foreign Aid·Gender·Human Rights·Middle East