International
Africa Has a Dream: Obama
The new president will be welcomed by most ordinary Africans, if not by their rulers
They Just Don’t Get It
Many Britons – and even some Americans – have a false idea of what the US is really like. Are Hollywood and TV to blame?
The Terrorist Threat to Business
Luke Johnson, entrepreneur and business commentator, discusses terrorism’s growing menace with historian Michael Burleigh and Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson
Europe’s Love Affair with Obama
‘Mr Obama subscribes to the European critique of the Bush administration, but the self-abasement that the critics demand from America is as implausible as it is undesirable’
How Fair is Fairtrade?
The recession will refocus our financial priorities, and is as good a time as any to reassess the value of Fairtrade products
Crash Course
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
US and Them
The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy by Frank Prochaska
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts