Tomorrow will be a banner day for English cultural journalism. Standpoint, a new monthly review of politics and culture, will make its debut with contributions by Michael Burleigh, Tim Congdon, Robert Conquest, Clive James, Douglas Murray, Andrew Roberts, Mark Steyn, and others. Judging by its first issue, it will amply live up to its promise “to celebrate and defend Western civilization, its achievements and its values.”
Edited by the distinguished journalist and historian Daniel Johnson, Standpoint eschews both the politically correct pieties that have insinuated themselves disastrously into so much serious cultural journalism over the past few decades as well as the tawdry commercialism that has rendered many hitherto vital periodicals indistinguishable from inflight magazines. There has been nothing as vibrant and engaging in English journalism since Encounter closed some two decades ago. “Give me a point on which to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world.” Welcome to Standpoint, which I expect will move and inform the world of cultural controversy and opinion. Click here to subscribe to Standpoint.
To bad one can’t subscribe online. Is that in the cards somewhere down the road?
Too, that is.
This is GREAT news.It might be more advantageous and profitable to offer a limited
subscription.Frankly, $120 USD without having seen any of it, or read even its Table of Contents for the opening issue, or future planned articles, is going out on a bit of a limb.They might want to offer a student rate, because it is all important students receive what I anticipate will be the content concerns.
They should advertise, and/or, send comp issues to writers and The New Criterion ilk for reviews and write-ups, such as this one, since I would venture to say there is a limited budget to date.