April 2008 issue of Prospect Magazine (#145)
Features
Philip Hensher / April 27, 2008
The "state of the nation" novel is back in fashion, with recent examples from Hanif...
Stephen Kotkin / April 27, 2008
Russia was not a liberal democracy under Yeltsin, and neither has it reverted to...
Annie Maccoby Berglof / April 27, 2008
A big shift in our understanding of mood disorders is under way, with many depressed...
Tom Chatfield / April 27, 2008
It is conventional wisdom that there were no WMD in Iraq. Yet there remains a dissenting...
Gershom Gorenberg / April 27, 2008
The power of the "Israel lobby" in the US is hard to measure exactly. But its hawkish...
Katharine Quarmby / April 27, 2008
Dubai has transformed itself from a dusty trading outpost to the self-proclaimed leader...
Hugh Miles / April 27, 2008
I moved to Cairo and fell in love with a beautiful Egyptian doctor. We decided to marry,...
Mark Hannam / April 27, 2008
The Bangladeshi economist has helped millions by pioneering microcredit. Now he has a new...
Opinions
Andrew Adonis / April 27, 2008
Herbert Asquith mismanaged Ireland and sleepwalked into world war. Little wonder his...
Misha Glenny / April 27, 2008
The EU's approach to Kosovan independence was cackhanded. Now it has to look after the...
Leo Benedictus / April 27, 2008
Advertising went through one revolution in the 1960s. It may now be experiencing another
David Goodhart / April 27, 2008
The Goldsmith review was widely mocked, but a modern idea of citizenship is no laughing...
Michio Kaku / April 27, 2008
Most "impossibilities" in physics are really just very difficult engineering problems
Michael Reid / April 27, 2008
Despite superficial signs of strength, Hugo Chávez's regime is in terminal decline
Regulars
David Goodhart / April 27, 2008
Big
anniversaries call forth big rhetoric. There has certainly been a lot of that to...
Metaphysics lives!
3rd March 2008
As one who gets paid to do metaphysics for a living,...
prospect / April 27, 2008
The RAE wars
2008 is crunch time for British academics, as the first research assessment...
AC Grayling / April 27, 2008
The legend on Prince Harry's cap read "We do bad things to bad people." Any comments on...
Ian Stewart / April 27, 2008
The annual fair at Wittering Feebleigh is a big occasion in the life of this little-known...
Arts & Books
Howard Jacobson / April 27, 2008
It is time for a grown-up debate about sexuality, says Howard Jacobson, winner of the...
Stephen Everson / April 27, 2008
Alex Ross's history of 20th-century music covers an impressively vast terrain. But its...
Jonathan Derbyshire / April 27, 2008
Too many histories of literary and intellectual culture are stuck in the elegiac mode....
John Lloyd / April 27, 2008
Nick Davies's critique of journalism hits many of the right targets, but it is marred by...
John Kay / April 27, 2008
Dani Rodrik avoids the single-template prescriptions of both the Washington consensus...
Ben Lewis / April 27, 2008
Antony Gormley is the Dan Brown of the art world: simple and accessible, his work is...
Martin Kettle / April 27, 2008
This spring sees three major versions of Eugene Onegin—not so long ago, it wasn't...
Peter Bazalgette / April 27, 2008
The new Five News has broken the mould of news bulletins. Macho newshounds may sneer, but...