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Counterpoints- Page 26

Short, sharp commentary from Standpoint on media, politics, religion and public life. Brief pieces with an edge.

Whose Olympic gold?

The attempt by the Left to present the nation's pride as a new, "post-imperial", patriotism, after the olympics just highlights their hypocrisy and opportunism

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Political Correctness

Puss in Chains

Throughout the media's coverage of the Kremlin's heinous treatment of Pussy Riot one thing has been shamefully overlooked: their feminism

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Russia

Uncharitable Thoughts

A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Judaism·Literature

A Profligate President

George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he'd acted on this wisdom before the event

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints

Pride of the CUP

Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies

August 29, 2012

Academia·Counterpoints·Publishing

Gore the Bore

I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Literature

Not So Austere

The so-called rightward march towards "austerity" has shifted entirely into the territory of the big-spending Left

June 27, 2012

Counterpoints·Economy

Blunt Contempt

Many a British art worthy maintains we all could have been Anthony Blunt. Rubbish: he deserved nothing less than exile in Russia

June 27, 2012

Counterpoints·Espionage

Academic Ideals

Amid the higher costs for university tuition online degree courses are gaining traction. Plato and Cicero would be turning in their grave

June 27, 2012

Academia·Counterpoints

I am the Greatest!

Obama presents himself as the greatest gift history has ever bestowed on the presidency. He would do well to respect the forefathers who made his presidency possible

June 27, 2012

Counterpoints·US Politics