February 1997 issue of Prospect Magazine (#16)
Features
Martin Rosenbaum / February 20, 1997
Party funding is a burning issue in the US, even after the election. Labour, if elected,...
Edward Luce / February 20, 1997
The president of the Philippines has made one of the most unusual journeys in the...
William Tribe / February 20, 1997
The Milosevic regime in Belgrade is faltering but the spirit of Serbian nationalism burns...
John Plender / February 20, 1997
Has the robust health of the freewheeling British economy weakened the case for...
Pico Iyer / February 20, 1997
The transcontinental tribe of wanderers is growing, global souls for whom home is...
Jason Cowley / February 20, 1997
Francis Stuart, one of Ireland's finest living writers, spent the last war in Berlin...
Lewis Wolpert / February 20, 1997
Science against philosophy
Dear Anthony,
I will not spare your convictions-this century...
Samuel Huntington / February 20, 1997
The west won the cold war, but cannot and should not impose its distinct values on other...
Opinions
Fay Weldon / February 20, 1997
Nightmares are not invasions of evil, they come from within. Fay Weldon recounts how she...
Anonymous / February 20, 1997
In the 50 years since its birth Pakistan has shuttled chaotically between dictatorship...
James Walvin / February 20, 1997
Many British habits have been shaped from the fruits of slave labour. James Walvin...
Douglas Hurd / February 20, 1997
The fashionable Whig view that the executive is secretive and tyrannical and the House of...
Richard Barry / February 20, 1997
Foreign fishermen gaining access to British fishing quotas seems unjust to the fishing...
Regulars
prospect / February 20, 1997
Richard Dawkins complains that a healthy enthusiasm for the unknown is being abused by...
Science and Technology
John Carr / February 20, 1997
I'll be glad when it's over. The general election that is. We seem to be living through...
Arts & Books
Christopher Tookey / February 20, 1997
When Christopher Tookey suggested in the Daily Mail that the film "Crash" should be...
Alex De Waal / February 20, 1997
Robert Kaplan's 1994 predictions of coming anarchy were based on spurious statistics and...
Herb Greer / February 20, 1997
The modern cult of the victim was foreshadowed by American playwrights in the 1940s....
Deborah Kellaway / February 20, 1997
Deborah Kellaway enjoys a book about how class difference has found new expression in the...
Samuel Brittan / February 20, 1997
Matt Ridley has written a fine book on the nature of altruism, not a Blairite manifesto....
Paul Barker / February 20, 1997
The 27th edition of Social Trends is published at the end of January. Paul Barker, a...