The art of Realpolitik

Better growth, worse leaders

The US primary elections are evidence of a new mood

If I ruled the world

I’m not exactly sure what it means to rule the

Prospect recommends

Chatsworth House, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Harley Gallery Welbeck,

Prospect events

On Monday 22 February, Prospect will launch its first Book

Letters

Reading Philip Hensher’s review (“Children of the Revolution,” March) of

In fact

In 2014, five countries— Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Syria—suffered

You are feeling optimistic

In the depths of America’s Great Depression in the 1930s,

Benevolent sexists

Valentine’s Day. A day of romance; a chance for men

Where people cling to prayer, not politics

There are huge figures in British politics, and then there

America’s “dark money”

While much of the nation is glued to the presidential

Cartoon

China’s dead supermarkets

The streets of Beijing are just as bustling as ever

Right and wrong about inequality

There is now a consensus—not a belief, not an hypothesis,

Probing the boundaries of power

Is Britain going to let Russia win in Syria? If

Should all immigrants learn English?

YES Of course migrants should learn English. The strategy to

Rolling back freedom

One after another the narratives that prop up belief in

The politician who never grew up

Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed

When economists get it wrong

Last month Prospect published two articles about economic growth by

The sky will not fall

For reasons I don’t understand, people simply love to be

My tribe or not?

Ilanded at Heathrow on 26th January 1991 with three pounds

Cameron’s deal is wafer thin, but that’s not the point

The European Union’s model of shared sovereignty is in a

Zuma must fall

On the evening of 9th December last year, South Africa’s

Does leadership matter?

Mistaken though he was in elevating his own hopes and

The dark side of being alive

Medical science is making huge advances in treating cancer. Figures

What does it feel like to be dead?

The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public

A game of mirrors in Madrid

by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Hamish Hamilton,

The path to total purity

The death in January of Pierre Boulez at the age

Books in brief

At the outset of his monumental study, David Cesarani laments

Leith on life

What is the essence of married love? It’s the little

Life of the mind

While she talks my mind is fizzing. I’m anxious, wanting

Matters of taste

It’s hard to explain what makes Paris the most pleasant

Wine

Is there such a thing as a national grape? There

DIY investor

The Chancellor has a record of springing pension surprises in

The way we were

On 5th June 1975, the first UK referendum took place