Modern Life | Standpoint Magazine

Don’t Pit Generations Against Each Other

Whatever the economic inequalities between baby boomers and millennials, there has never been a better time to be young

March 22, 2016

Conceptualism was briefly a vital response to commercialism in modern art. Then it ran out of ideas

March 22, 2016

Art·Modern Life

"Social justice" and the New Left's takeover of academic institutions

December 15, 2015

The dangerous new culture of brunch

October 28, 2015

Beethoven set the bar impossibly high but composers like myself still regard it as the ultimate challenge

September 22, 2015

How Britain discovered a lucrative new role as a global cultural powerhouse

September 21, 2015

The internet bookselling market appears to be based on nothing more than whim

September 21, 2015

Emails are a sphere of communication which is crying out for the imposition of regular form

August 26, 2015

Commercial art forms may yet save the Western tradition from its propensity to self-destruction

June 23, 2015

What could have been a skewering of our censorious times is merely a missed opportunity

June 23, 2015

Despite everything, the BBC is still one of our great cultural forces

June 22, 2015

Tuvia Tenenbom's Catch The Jew! exposes NGOs' distortion of the truth in Israel

May 27, 2015