Prospect Magazine  |  July 2020
in Prospect's July 2020 issue: Covid-19 has brought into focus the geo-political rivalry between the old superpower and the new. As Steve Bloomfield argues in his cover essay for Prospect, the US’s poor performance in tackling the virus (100,000 dead) versus China’s apparent success in locking it down has led some to believe that the liberal model can never be as effective as an authoritarian one. But we shouldn’t despair, says Bloomfield, there’s plenty in liberal democracy still worth fighting for. In the week of the protests over George Floyd’s death, Joe Biden is promising to restore sanity to America. But is this flawed candidate the best person for the job, asks Sam Tanenhaus? In our Duel we ask two Europeans, Bruno Maçães and Anu Bradford, if Covid-19 will kill of the EU. We also investigate why we didn’t learn the lessons from the previous epidemic, Ebola, and why the next one could escape from a laboratory. Away from the virus, Alice Vincent profiles the gardening guru Monty Don and novelist Amit Chaudhuri reviews a glorious new biography of sitar-maestro Ravi Shankar.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Prospect Magazine July 2020.