Features- Page 24

Long-form essays from Standpoint on politics, foreign affairs, religion, education and economics. Arguments made at length by writers who mean them.

Banking on Allah

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens: Islamists claim that a sharia-compliant financial system is safer and morally superior. The truth is more sinister

June 24, 2009

Economy·Features·Islam

Adventures of a Book in Africa

Michela Wrong's exposé of corruption in Kenya was suppressed, then pirated, and finally rescued by an unlikely combination of saviours.

June 24, 2009

Africa·Ethnicity·Features·Literature·Politics

Exile on Jermyn Street

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman Funerals feel more natural in the winter.

June 23, 2009

Communism·Features·Film·US Politics

Beyond the Myth of Mandela

As Jacob Zuma takes over as South Africa’s president, the ‘Beloved Country’ needs to break with idolatry

May 28, 2009

Africa·Developing World·Features·Politics

Fear and Filth at Brown’s Number 10

The Prime Minister has surrounded himself with attack dogs who undermine rival politicians and critical journalists

April 27, 2009

Features

Faith, Hope and the Free Economy

Catholicism is compatible with capitalism, not the overmighty state

April 4, 2009

Economy·Faith·Features·The Catholic Church

Dreams for their Children

The rise of Kenya's middle class offers the country, and the whole continent, hope for the future

February 25, 2009

Africa·Education·Features·Foreign Aid·History·Modern Life·Obama·Social Affairs

A Strange Rush for the Exit

In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?

February 25, 2009

Academia·Europe·Faith·Family·Features·Health·History·Human Rights·Mental Illness·Modern Life·Philosophy·Science·Social Affairs·The West

A Tale of Sadness and Forgetting

The Czech novelist Milan Kundera is accused of informing on an anti-communist as a student. Is there any truth in the charge?

February 17, 2009

Features·Heritage·History·Justice·Literature·Politics

Blown Up in Bin Laden Country

Is Pakistani intelligence allowing the country’s tribal areas to become a Taliban stronghold? What can the West do about it? The moment the bomb exploded, our Frontier Corps driver slammed on the

January 27, 2009