Sentimental Nihilism And Popular Culture
Commercial art forms may yet save the Western tradition from its propensity to self-destruction
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Chinese Checkmate
How China took to the Western game of chess
Music Of The Future Cannot Ignore The Past
Composers who try to create culture in a vacuum will struggle to be heard by a hostile public
The Pagan Problem In Western Thought
"By all means, let the wicked fry in Hell—but why should they find themselves frying alongside innocent and virtuous pagans?"
The Return Of War
In the era of Putin and Islamic State, we shall have to dust off Clausewitz and confront reality
Elegy For Gray
The respected philosopher is a false friend of the West
Germane Germans
‘Do we still have an intellectual elite that reads, and writers to cater for it? In Germany, we have Merkur’
Is China Really a Threat to us?
Dambisa Moyo, author of How the West was Lost, and Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest, discuss the Eastern challenge to Western prosperity with the Editor of Standpoint,
Will Germany be a Divided Nation Again?
The Turkish-born German sociologist and critic of Islamism Necla Kelek and the classical liberal economist Karen Horn discuss the failure of integration with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson, in Berlin
Warning to the US: Don’t Play by Islamic Rules
The Ground Zero mosque debate shows America, like Britain, pursuing the chimera of attempting to reform Islam
How the West was Invented
Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
A Strange Rush for the Exit
In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?