Overrated
Edward Said
Ibn Warraq indicts the Palestinian author of Orientalism for presenting the West as villains and Muslims as victims
Norman Foster
Foster’s buildings might better suit the sky than the earth, where ordinary mortals live
John le Carré
Anti-American sarcasm has crept into his work like a cancer, eating away at its integrity
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’