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April 2008 issue of Prospect Magazine (#145)

Features

Writing the nation
Philip Hensher / April 27, 2008
The "state of the nation" novel is back in fashion, with recent examples from Hanif...
Myth of the new cold war
Stephen Kotkin / April 27, 2008
Russia was not a liberal democracy under Yeltsin, and neither has it reverted to...
Bipolar nation
Annie Maccoby Berglof / April 27, 2008
A big shift in our understanding of mood disorders is under way, with many depressed...
Whispers in the desert
Tom Chatfield / April 27, 2008
It is conventional wisdom that there were no WMD in Iraq. Yet there remains a dissenting...
A liberal Israel lobby
Gershom Gorenberg / April 27, 2008
The power of the "Israel lobby" in the US is hard to measure exactly. But its hawkish...
An Arabian fantasy
Katharine Quarmby / April 27, 2008
Dubai has transformed itself from a dusty trading outpost to the self-proclaimed leader...
A Cairo conversion
Hugh Miles / April 27, 2008
I moved to Cairo and fell in love with a beautiful Egyptian doctor. We decided to marry,...
Muhammad Yunus
Mark Hannam / April 27, 2008
The Bangladeshi economist has helped millions by pioneering microcredit. Now he has a new...

Opinions

A Liberal tragedy
Andrew Adonis / April 27, 2008
Herbert Asquith mismanaged Ireland and sleepwalked into world war. Little wonder his...
You broke it, you own it
Misha Glenny / April 27, 2008
The EU's approach to Kosovan independence was cackhanded. Now it has to look after the...
The adman as artist
Leo Benedictus / April 27, 2008
Advertising went through one revolution in the 1960s. It may now be experiencing another
National derision
David Goodhart / April 27, 2008
The Goldsmith review was widely mocked, but a modern idea of citizenship is no laughing...
The impossible made possible
Michio Kaku / April 27, 2008
Most "impossibilities" in physics are really just very difficult engineering problems
¡Adiós, Hugo!
Michael Reid / April 27, 2008
Despite superficial signs of strength, Hugo Chávez's regime is in terminal decline

Regulars

Editorial
David Goodhart / April 27, 2008
Big anniversaries call forth big rhetoric. There has certainly been a lot of that to...
Letters
prospect / April 27, 2008
Metaphysics lives! 3rd March 2008 As one who gets paid to do metaphysics for a living,...
News and curiosities
prospect / April 27, 2008
The RAE wars 2008 is crunch time for British academics, as the first research assessment...
Tom's words
Tom Chatfield / April 27, 2008
Escapades in etymology
Grayling's question
AC Grayling / April 27, 2008
The legend on Prince Harry's cap read "We do bad things to bad people." Any comments on...
Enigmas and puzzles
Ian Stewart / April 27, 2008
The annual fair at Wittering Feebleigh is a big occasion in the life of this little-known...
In fact
prospect / April 27, 2008
Brent, in north London, is the only place in Britain where women earn as much as men on...

Arts & Books

Prada prostitutes
Howard Jacobson / April 27, 2008
It is time for a grown-up debate about sexuality, says Howard Jacobson, winner of the...
Musical arguments
Stephen Everson / April 27, 2008
Alex Ross's history of 20th-century music covers an impressively vast terrain. But its...
Borderline essays
Jonathan Derbyshire / April 27, 2008
Too many histories of literary and intellectual culture are stuck in the elegiac mode....
Mucking out the media
John Lloyd / April 27, 2008
Nick Davies's critique of journalism hits many of the right targets, but it is marred by...
Puzzles of development
John Kay / April 27, 2008
Dani Rodrik avoids the single-template prescriptions of both the Washington consensus...
Private view
Ben Lewis / April 27, 2008
Antony Gormley is the Dan Brown of the art world: simple and accessible, his work is...
Performance notes
Martin Kettle / April 27, 2008
This spring sees three major versions of Eugene Onegin—not so long ago, it wasn't...
Smallscreen
Peter Bazalgette / April 27, 2008
The new Five News has broken the mould of news bulletins. Macho newshounds may sneer, but...

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