July 2020 | Standpoint Magazine

Thousands of new French windfarms — but no reduction in carbon emissions

‘Wind and solar power make it impossible for France to close down its remaining fossil fuel power stations’

July 10, 2020

A defence of difference

"We seldom hear much about freedom from contemporary social justice activists. They don’t want freedom — freedom would mean taking responsibility for one’s life"

July 10, 2020

Open Season

Dread, time and the pandemic

Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown

July 10, 2020

Critique·Editor’s Picks

American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard

‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’

July 10, 2020

Primary Colours

Why Schiller still matters

The great dramatist was an Enlightenment philosopher as well as playwright. His inquiries into humanity had a political dimension

July 10, 2020

Features

Staking claims on thin ice: the new Silk Road

Shipping routes are opening up in the Arctic due to climate change. This is a development fraught with environmental and geopolitical risk

July 10, 2020

Editor’s Picks·Features

Majority rule; minority rights

It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture

July 10, 2020

Features

Suffering from chronic repression

Fears of a new Cultural Revolution are beginning to look justified as Xi Jinping advances the pace of control in China

July 10, 2020

Features

The favourites

From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?

July 10, 2020

Features

‘Safety first’: the war on risk

Safety has supplanted liberty as the driving force of our political culture. This is a cul-de-sac for democracy

July 10, 2020

Features

Central American exceptionalism: Costa Rica faces la pandemia

The tiny country’s success at tackling coronavirus

July 10, 2020

Counterpoints

Can Keir Starmer save the Labour Party?

‘It is a sign of the speed and sure-footedness of Keir Starmer’s ascendancy that it now seems inconceivable that Labour could have elected anybody else. It is easy to forget that in

July 10, 2020

Politics