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September 2008

Standpoint is published monthly by Social Affairs Unit Magazines Limited, a subsidiary of the Social Affairs Unit (Registered Charity No.281530). The views expressed in Standpoint are those of its individual authors, not those of the Social Affairs Unit Magazines Ltd and its Directors or those of the Social Affairs Unit and its Trustees and Director

Reputations

Overrated

John Stuart Mill

ROGER KIMBALL

Roger Kimball blames the revered advocate of 'experiments in living' for our inability to escape from the quagmire of moral nihilism

Underrated

Roger Bacon

NICHOLAS FEARN

Surely the man who can claim to be the world's first experimental scientist and to have advised the Pope deserves a better reputation

Previous columns

Edward Said

IBN WARRAQ
August 2008

Ibn Warraq indicts the Palestinian author of Orientalism for presenting the West as villains and Muslims as victims

Norman Foster

DAVID WATKIN
July 2008

Foster's buildings might better suit the sky than the earth, where ordinary mortals live

John le Carré

ANONYMOUS
June 2008

Anti-American sarcasm has crept into his work like a cancer, eating away at its integrity

Elie Kedourie

KENNETH MINOGUE
August 2008

Kenneth Minogue recalls the great Anglo-Iraqi scholar who was both amused and outraged by the folly of intellectuals

Quinlan Terry

DAVID WATKIN
July 2008

As a student Terry was told he would fail if he continued to submit any more classical designs

Ian Fleming

ANONYMOUS
June 2008

No novelist since Stevenson imparts so much energy into simple-seeming sentences through inch-perfect phrasing and punctuation