Academia
The Costly New Idea of a University
With tuition fees about to triple to make up for the withdrawal of state funding, it is time to reread Coleridge, Bentham and Mill
Ralph Miliband
A tale of two émigrés: One of whom wanted to subvert the British State, while the other embraced it
Ernest Gellner
A tale of two émigrés: One of whom wanted to subvert the British State, while the other embraced it
What are Universities For?
The calls for Higher Education to switch focus to vocational training neglect the fact that academics in the arts and humanities have a responsibility for the moral formation of their students
Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson
Has Britain Found a Role Yet?
The leading historians Professors Norman Stone and Jeremy Black discuss how this country might recover its once unique contribution to Western civilisation with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson
A New Voice for the American Right
The heir to Buckley, Kristol and Neuhaus, Robert George is the new leader of American intellectual conservatism
Coming to America
‘Should we treat assimilation not as a taboo subject but as an opportunity?’
Political Classes
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
Going to Extremes
Our Mole on campus wonders why universities permit Islamist intolerance to flourish
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal