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...Standard is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, but the magazine’s erudite prose contrasts starkly with the bawdiness that characterizes other Murdoch ventures. Perhaps the Standard is Murdoch’s attempt to atone for the sin that he has committed by bankrolling the New York Post...
Almost all of the writers in the Standard distrust international institutions such as the U.N., favor a less-strict separation between church and state, and believe that lower taxes are needed to spur economic growth. But the views expressed in the magazine are certainly not monolithic. For instance, in a 1997 article, economist Irwin Stelzer writes that, to achieve “the long-held and very American ideal of equality of opportunity,” conservatives like himself might consider the possibility of imposing a 100 percent inheritance tax—at least for large estates...
Although the bulk of each edition of the Standard is devoted to political news and analysis, Kristol’s anthology is chock-full of trenchant cultural criticism. One particularly strong example is a 1999 article by an English professor at the University of Virginia professor, Paul A. Cantor, analyzing the threat that the end of the Cold War posed to professional wrestling...
...live in glass houses ought not to throw stones—even if those men are journalists. The Standard anthology commits many errors of omission in its own right—and Kristol had only a decade, rather than a century, of back-issues to browse through. Kristol’s anthology is guilty of the same “self-congratulations” for which Terzian attacks the Times magazine...
...track off the album is “Evidence,” a Monk standard that likely had jaws dropping all over the auditorium. The tune is fragmented, a series of seemingly random notes that somehow come together. The only discernible part of the melody is one five-note phrase that gives the piece its own personal flavor. The piece is kept together, not by the excellent rhythm section of Ahmed Abdul-Malik on bass and Shadow Wilson on drums, but the interplay between Monk and Coltrane, particularly during the first solo section...