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February 2009 issue of Prospect Magazine (#155)

Features

Public service narrowcasting
Peter Bazalgette / February 28, 2009
Multi-channel television and the internet are killing public service broadcasting as we...
Darwin the abolitionist
Adrian Desmond / February 28, 2009
The theory of evolution is regarded as a triumph of disinterested scientific reason. Yet,...
The crisis: a reason to join the euro?
Willem Buiter / February 28, 2009
Is Britain running the risk of a sterling crisis by staying out of the euro? Or would it...
The girls they left behind
Katharine Quarmby / February 28, 2009
I am the British love child of an Iranian sailor. I thought I would never meet my father:...
Revolutionary roads
Dominic Sandbrook / February 28, 2009
What actually happened in 1979? And how does the Iranian revolution compare with 1789 and...
Anniversary blues in Iran
Christopher de Bellaigue / February 28, 2009
As Iran's Islamic Republic celebrates its 30th anniversary, its oil wealth is in decline...
The king and I
Michael Axworthy / February 28, 2009
The last Shah of Iran was bundled out of power in 1979 by one of the shaping events of...
Israel's phantom people
Adam LeBor / February 28, 2009
About 20 per cent of Israel's citizens are Arabs, and the violence in Gaza has further...
Rise of the red Tories
Phillip Blond / February 28, 2009
The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British...
A crisis of pathology
Sue Armstrong / February 28, 2009
Pathology is central to the fight against disease and used to be one of the most...
Obama's moral majority
Jonathan Haidt / February 28, 2009
President Obama has a unique opportunity to unite Americans behind him and redefine...

Opinions

The meaning of Huntington
E K / February 28, 2009
Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America's intellectual elite. It's because he was...
Moving pains
James Crabtree / February 28, 2009
Obama's people are finding it hard to take his "movement" with them to Washington
Europe's pipe dream
Derek Brower / February 28, 2009
Like it or not, Europe needs Russian gas
The lesson of 1932
Graham Turner / February 28, 2009
Banks are lending to other financial corporations but not to business. The Bank of...
The Obama peace deal
Bernard Avishai / February 28, 2009
Israelis and Palestinians are at war with themselves, as well as each other. This is...

Regulars

News and curiosities
prospect / February 28, 2009
Obama, my neocon darling Obama's inauguration crackled with wonderful atmosphere,...
Tom's words
Tom Chatfield / February 28, 2009
The word "inauguration" entered English in the early 17th century from the Latin,...
Grayling's Question
AC Grayling / February 28, 2009
If justice is relative, how has it inspired so many reform movements? Thucydides said...
In fact
prospect / February 28, 2009
At Asda, sales of offal were up 20 per cent in November compared to the same month in...
Editorial
David Goodhart / February 28, 2009
It seems rather appropriate that America has transcended its "original sin" and elected a...
Letters
prospect / February 28, 2009
High-speed trains 19th January 2009 Andrew Adonis's argument (January) for a high-speed...

Arts & Books

Private view
Ben Lewis / February 28, 2009
The bursting of the contemporary art bubble has been a comedy of errors. But what will...
Relatively speaking
Michael Bywater / February 28, 2009
It's all very well respecting other people's beliefs. But—as a fine new book on...
Widescreen
Mark Cousins / February 28, 2009
Film prizes are usually a bloated mess, and encourage vacuous criticism. Here's what we...
When we dead awaken
Tom Chatfield / February 28, 2009
Has the first great novel of the 21st century just arrived from South America? Roberto...
Not to be sniffed at
Tony Barnett / February 28, 2009
Pandemic influenza is the greatest public health threat our society faces. Yet we're...
The risible wizard of Oz
Kim Fletcher / February 28, 2009
He's one of the most famous and successful media magnates in history. So how did Rupert...
Smallscreen
Peter Bazalgette / February 28, 2009
Dickens founded a tradition of ghostly Christmas stories that's still alive and well on...
Performance notes
Martin Kettle / February 28, 2009
Broadcasting opera shows live into cinemas is transforming the reach of the world's great...

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