February 2009 issue of Prospect Magazine (#155)
Features
Dominic Sandbrook / February 28, 2009
What actually happened in 1979? And how does the Iranian revolution compare with 1789 and...
Christopher de Bellaigue / February 28, 2009
As Iran's Islamic Republic celebrates its 30th anniversary, its oil wealth is in decline...
Michael Axworthy / February 28, 2009
The last Shah of Iran was bundled out of power in 1979 by one of the shaping events of...
Adam LeBor / February 28, 2009
About 20 per cent of Israel's citizens are Arabs, and the violence in Gaza has further...
Phillip Blond / February 28, 2009
The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British...
Sue Armstrong / February 28, 2009
Pathology is central to the fight against disease and used to be one of the most...
Jonathan Haidt / February 28, 2009
President Obama has a unique opportunity to unite Americans behind him and redefine...
Peter Bazalgette / February 28, 2009
Multi-channel television and the internet are killing public service broadcasting as we...
Adrian Desmond / February 28, 2009
The theory of evolution is regarded as a triumph of disinterested scientific reason. Yet,...
Willem Buiter / February 28, 2009
Is Britain running the risk of a sterling crisis by staying out of the euro? Or would it...
Katharine Quarmby / February 28, 2009
I am the British love child of an Iranian sailor. I thought I would never meet my father:...
Opinions
Graham Turner / February 28, 2009
Banks are lending to other financial corporations but not to business. The Bank of...
Bernard Avishai / February 28, 2009
Israelis and Palestinians are at war with themselves, as well as each other. This is...
E K / February 28, 2009
Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America's intellectual elite. It's because he was...
James Crabtree / February 28, 2009
Obama's people are finding it hard to take his "movement" with them to Washington
Science and Technology
Arts & Books
Mark Cousins / February 28, 2009
Film prizes are usually a bloated mess, and encourage vacuous criticism. Here's what we...
Tom Chatfield / February 28, 2009
Has the first great novel of the 21st century just arrived from South America? Roberto...
Tony Barnett / February 28, 2009
Pandemic influenza is the greatest public health threat our society faces. Yet we're...
Kim Fletcher / February 28, 2009
He's one of the most famous and successful media magnates in history. So how did Rupert...
Peter Bazalgette / February 28, 2009
Dickens founded a tradition of ghostly Christmas stories that's still alive and well on...
Martin Kettle / February 28, 2009
Broadcasting opera shows live into cinemas is transforming the reach of the world's great...
Ben Lewis / February 28, 2009
The bursting of the contemporary art bubble has been a comedy of errors. But what will...
Michael Bywater / February 28, 2009
It's all very well respecting other people's beliefs. But—as a fine new book on...