Fredric Smoler
ONLINE ONLY: Situation Normal
Generation Kill, its critics and the messy reality of war
ONLINE ONLY: Down the Wrong Mean Streets
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
ONLINE ONLY: Genius in the Streets
The Wire may be the best television ever made, but is it truly Dickensian?
ONLINE ONLY: Furst Principles
The mysterious appeal of Alan Furst’s ‘historical espionage’ novels
ONLINE ONLY: A Pacifist at Hitler’s Side
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’