In the magazine this month
March 2010
Barack Obama has squandered his first year in office in the face of al-Qaeda’s growing threat
In his election campaign, President Barack Obama made several statements about terrorism. He dissociated himself from George W. Bush's "holistic approach" (whatever this meant) and the rhetoric about the "global war on terrorism". He promised a more substantial "security architecture". Head of this new architecture was the unfortunate Janet Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona, who went on record saying that the system had worked well after the barely failed attempt to bomb a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
NICK COHEN
European liberalism has gone badly wrong. Why does a culture that prides itself on opposition to bigotry become so feeble when confronted by reactionary clerics?
TERENCE KEALEY
If the state were to support students rather than dons, Britain could have its own Ivy League
TIBOR FISCHER
British insularity is a myth: most contemporary foreign fiction just isn’t worth translating into English
DAVID WILLETTS AND FRANK FIELD
The Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary David Willetts discusses the legacy of the post-war generation with the senior Labour MP Frank Field and Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint
DANIEL JOHNSON DOUGLAS MURRAY EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI TIM CONGDON JOSHUA ROZENBERG LIONEL SHRIVER MARA DELIUS MICHAEL BURLEIGH ANONYMOUS FRANCES WEAVER |
SHIRAZ MAHER
HOURIYA AHMED
JAMIE WHYTE
MASHA KARP
PHILIP WOMACK
CELIA WALDEN
JUSTIN MAROZZI
LOUIS AMIS
NIGEL BIGGAR
ALAN BROWNJOHN
