October 12, 2026

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

Confronting a noxious new age of Jew-hate

Violence spawns from normalised bigotry. Effective Holocaust education must trace it to its origins and allow Jews to speak for themselves

January 30, 2020

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Auschwitz’s antechamber

The point of departure for condemned French Jews was the banal banlieue of Drancy, outside Paris

January 30, 2020

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A woke at the wheel of wonderful museums

If the country’s great collections are to be saved from the illogic of left-wing groupthink, we must find a new type of thinker

January 30, 2020

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A crown of thorns

A diminished, secular Britain means that the next coronation will not match the majesty and mystery of the last

January 30, 2020

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Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse

Surveillance is tightening inside China—but our carelessness also gives the regime huge capabilities abroad

December 4, 2019

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Fare well Romania—now your heritage is secure

Reflections on the little-known efforts to save an extraordinary architectural legacy from the wrecking ball of Communism

December 4, 2019

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Discussions with a stone wall

Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause

October 23, 2019

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‘Capitalitis’ makes Celts cringe

The United Kingdom is under strain as never before—but the cause is obsessive centralism, not the largely mythical ‘Celtic’ identities

October 23, 2019

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Carrying water for freedom

Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself

October 23, 2019

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Arise ye unwoke from your slumbers

Our tolerance of intolerance must end. It’s time to reclaim the sanity of both public and private spaces with a counter-revolution

October 23, 2019

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Comes the reckoning

History was a weakness for communist regimes. Now it has become a weapon for populists

October 23, 2019

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Cast off the shackles of Empire victimhood

Blaming modern woes on past empires stokes infantilisation—condescension is colonialism’s last legacy. I’m proud of my CBE

September 18, 2019

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