MANCHESTER SQUARE
October 2011
Western civilisation has hitherto depended for its survival on two great families of nations: the Europeans and the North Americans. Today,
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September 2011
'Secular individuals are of course no less moral than their pious counterparts, but secular societies are living on the spiritual capital accumulated by their ancestors'
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July/August 2011
'Rowan Williams likes to see himself as the Church of England's first celebrity archbishop — almost as famous as the Vicar of Dibley'
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June 2011
Spinoza was the first major modern thinker to defend both democracy and liberty. His Tractatus Theologico-Politicus is still the classic defence of the idea that 'in a free state, every man may think what he likes and say what he thinks.'
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Manchester Square
Manchester Square is Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson's monthly editorial, named after Standpoint's London location.
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