A Man Of Words, Not Of Deeds
Alexis de Tocqueville: a mediocre minister but a memoirist of genius
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Diaspora Of Pain And Joy
The tale of two Jewish familes in Baghdad and Budapest
Coloured By His Emotions
Howard Hodgkin reduces portraiture to something more essential than physical form
Time To Revisit The Two Cultures
The divide between the arts and sciences will never be fully resolved. But the gap may be narrowing
A Beautiful Waste
The ascendancy of machine over man
Reality Check For Opec
Donald Trump says he wants the US to be energy-independent. Opec should take heed
Golden Gogol
Gogol's The Nose is mesmerisingly surreal
Mounting Outrage
A recent resolution passed by Unesco denies the Jewish significance of the Temple Mount
Job Satisfaction
We should encourage more young people to take up apprenticeships, not force them into universities
A Light Dimmed
The war poet Leslie Coulson has been undeservedly forgotten
Brexit bébé
Nation states are back for the children of the post-Brexit era
Berenika Stefanska
Remembering Berenika Stefanska, a former Standpoint intern who has died at the age of 33