Caning the Banks
The coalition government's new levy on banks will be a levy on banks' customers
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Out of Proportion
It's British politicians who are broken or corrupt or out-of-touch, not the British political system
Worth the Wait
My mother, at the age of 100, may feel enfranchised at last During my lunch break on May 2 1997, I walked from my office in Mayfair across Green Park to watch
Evolution can be Religion’s Friend
Science and faith need not contradict each other because they concern different matters
Veni Vidi Vishy
The supremacy of logic over superstition allowed Vishy Anand to become a worthy world champion
Faith in the Law
'I might believe it is wrong to work on the Sabbath but I cannot expect the law to enforce that belief in Britain'
California Dreaming
'Don't believe what they say about California: it is still the matrix for our civilisation'
Has Britain Found a Role Yet?
The leading historians Professors Norman Stone and Jeremy Black discuss how this country might recover its once unique contribution to Western civilisation with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson
A New Voice for the American Right
The heir to Buckley, Kristol and Neuhaus, Robert George is the new leader of American intellectual conservatism
The Satirist and the Engineer
Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga, goes up against the humourless Mikhail Botvinnik
The Ascent of Man
Are humans just the most complex of molecular machines or something qualitatively different?
Coming to America
'Should we treat assimilation not as a taboo subject but as an opportunity?'