Publishing

Luke Johnson, entrepreneur and business commentator, discusses terrorism’s growing menace with historian Michael Burleigh and Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson

We should demand more cultural regulation to help us to focus on the best thoughts and words

An exhibition of WG Sebald’s archives offers an intriguing view of the late UK-based emigré German writer’s life and loves

‘Is there an absolute measure to settle the argument on limits of freedom of speech? No. Each law-making democracy must decide for itself’

As Georgia licks its wounds, a morally dubious industry has sprung up to churn out books celebrating the end of American global hegemony

Until recently, it was assumed that Trilling had written only one long fiction, The Middle of the Journey (1947). Now, thanks to Geraldine Murphy we know that Trilling was a third of the way through another novel, begun years earlier

Nudge is glib trickery, albeit of a very nicely spoken, bland cross-party 21st-century sort

Standpoint’s Mole inside the publishing world bemoans the fact that it’s more about marketing than quality

The word “bestseller” is a terminological outrage

Drinking champagne at the Wallace Collection does not constitute the whole of that Western civilisation which Standpoint exists to celebrate and defend, but it feels like a good start