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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
WEBIn 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 …
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 ...
Seventy per cent of young people voted Remain—Lara Spirit
WEBMar 12, 2019 · At 21 years old, Spirit decided to leave her Cambridge politics degree behind, having requested leave from her College for “exceptional circumstances.”. Those exceptional circumstances have seen her appear regularly as a representative for the over 70 per cent of young people who voted Remain in the Brexit referendum.
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 ...
Why does Boris keep promoting Charlotte Owen?
WEBSep 6, 2024 · At the age of 29, her elevation to the peerage in July 2023 by Boris Johnson was quite the mystery. Now she’s got stuck into the role in earnest it feels about time to check on her progress in the House of Lords. A reminder, if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Seven years ago, Charlotte was something of a blank sheet of paper: a York ...
Fiction: Lusus Naturae by Margaret Atwood - Prospect
WEBHe’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.
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2021 - Prospect
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Biographies by Tom Clark, Sameer Rahim, Alex Dean, Rebecca Liu, Emily Lawford, Chris Tilbury, David McAllister, Keir Bradwell and Eleanor Noyce. Prospect Editorial Team. Politics Health Intellectuals and Ideas World’s Top Thinker World. We stopped, they rethought. Meet the outstanding minds who are shaping the future.
The surprising history of “Rule, Britannia!” and Last ... - Prospect
WEBAug 26, 2020 · The chance to modernise the proceedings came only when Sargent retired and was replaced by Colin Davies. For the 1969 celebrations, the Controller of the Proms, William Glock, removed both “Land of Hope and Glory” and “Rule, Britannia!”—but the outrage led to both being reinstated. As the BBC commentator observed, the “Bring Back ...