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WEBMagazine. A year on from the 7th October, Samir Al-Youssef and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen reflect on horror and trauma in the Middle East. Our critics offer a US culture special, while former Nato secretary general George Robertson pens a letter to voters. Past issues.
Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? - Prospect
WEBOct 6, 2021 · In her concise and authoritative new book, Clare Carlisle seeks to rescue Spinoza from those who peddle misconceptions—on all sides. A professor of philosophy at King’s College London and author of a recent biography of Søren Kierkegaard, Carlisle also edited George Eliot’s translation of the Ethics last year. She argues that Spinoza was a profound and subtle writer on religion; to box ...
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
WEBJul 14, 2020 · The immediate relevance of some of our thinkers to the Covid-19 era speaks for itself: vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert and science writer Ed Yong being prime examples. Just as interesting, however, are those who work in fields a mile away from medicine, but who have nonetheless acquired a new salience in …
The madness of his method: behind the singular talent of
WEBFebruary 18, 2018. Most film stars tipped to collect a fourth best actor Oscar—their sixth Academy Award nomination overall—would barely be out of the public eye. But Daniel Day-Lewis has a talent for disappearing. When taking on a role, he hunkers down for months or even years of preparation. Between films he steps away entirely, provoking ...
About us - Prospect
WEBAbout us. Prospect is the UK’s outstanding monthly current affairs title—a home for fine writing, robust debate and considered reflection on the biggest issues of our time. Edited by Alan Rusbridger, it is published in print ten times a year—including a bumper issue in both the winter and the summer—and now boasts a lively website, app ...
Interview: John Agard—“those who weren't given a voice
WEBOct 19, 2016 · The Royal Festival Hall’s Blue Room has gone dark. “Ladies and gentlemen!” a voice with an American accent announces. “It gives me great pleasure to introduce the admiral of the ocean sea, live and direct from the old world to the new, and the new world to the old; viceroy and governor in perpetuo; property developer by the grace of God for his exalted sponsors; Ferdinand of Aragon and ...
The World’s Top Thinkers 2024: ideas for a world on the brink
WEBDec 6, 2023 · On the theme of freedom, our thinkers put forward contentious ideas: that the history of the British Empire is “morally mixed”; that the greatest threat from cancel culture isn’t to freedom of speech; that the left has much in common with the reactionary right; that liberals have paved the right’s way to power; and that homophobia in ...
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2021 - Prospect
WEBJul 13, 2021 · There has been plenty to think about—but what sorts of thought are most important in a world emerging from a pandemic? In consultation with the experts who write for us, Prospect presents the world’s top 50 thinkers for this moment. In lively and occasionally heated discussions about who should make the grade, our criteria were not only originality and eminence within a field, but the ...
What really motivates the European Research Group? - Prospect
WEBJan 11, 2019 · It was the Monday Club, founded in 1961 by a grouping of far-right Tories including many MPs, that was opposed to immigration and went so far as to advocate forced repatriation. On Europe, however, its members were split—so much so that until 1980 it decided not to take a position on the subject. While anti …
Fiction: Lusus Naturae by Margaret Atwood - Prospect
WEBSep 17, 2014 · He’d only seen a case like me once before, he’d said, looking at my yellow eyes, my pink teeth, my red fingernails, the long dark hair that was sprouting on my chest and arms. He wanted to take me away to the city, so other doctors could look at me, but my family refused. “She’s a lusus naturae,” he’d said.