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  • Issue #164, November 2009

November 2009 issue of Prospect Magazine (#164)

Features

So, what's the big plan?
Philip Bobbitt / October 21, 2009
One year on, Obama's foreign policy seems to be vacillating—allies both at home and...
Writing is a team sport in the US
Kabir Chibber / October 21, 2009
Interview with The Wire’s creator David Simon
Eleven days in December
Sam Knight / October 21, 2009
The climate change caravan has arrived in Copenhagen. But who are the people doing the...
The Prospect interview: Ed Miliband
Oliver Morton / October 21, 2009
Prospect talks to the energy and climate change secretary ahead of the Copenhagen summit
A house of sorrow and secrets
Julie Burchill / October 21, 2009
Princess Diana is nowhere to be found at Althorp, the family seat of the Spencers....
Twenty years in the making
Anne McElvoy / October 21, 2009
Despite the grumblings of a few sidelined intellectuals and the lingering sense that east...
How to really hug a hoodie
Gavin Knight / October 21, 2009
Karyn McCluskey has led a controversial project in Glasgow to tackle gang violence. It...
Why Britain can't do The Wire
Peter Jukes / October 21, 2009
The critically acclaimed US television drama could not be made here. We have writing...
How power changed a president
James Crabtree / October 21, 2009
A year after his election, Obama's promise of change remains unfulfilled, and his country...

Opinions

A farewell to arms
Lewis Page / October 21, 2009
The next government should save the armed forces—and leave weapons makers to sink or...
How we got the Soviets wrong
Peregrine Worsthorne / October 21, 2009
Cold warriors like myself badly overestimated the attractiveness of Marxism
Suffrage, but not for me
Kitty Fitzgerald / October 21, 2009
Gertrude Bell was one of the most successful women of her age. So why didn’t she want...
Why Turner is right
John Eatwell / October 21, 2009
A leading economist explains why a Tobin tax is a good way to bring the market to heel
Enlightened self-interest
Isabel Hilton / October 21, 2009
The world’s fastest developing countries are doing more about climate change than we...
Burden-sharing made simple
Vijay Joshi / October 21, 2009
Who should foot the bill for saving the planet?
Remember Netscape, Bill?
Elizabeth Pisani / October 21, 2009
Rich philanthropists have the power to fund risky, long-term projects. So why don’t...

Regulars

Word of the month
Tom Chatfield / October 23, 2009
Dingbat
Editorial
David Goodhart / October 21, 2009
National interests and global justice at Copenhagen
Prospect recommends
Prospect / October 21, 2009
FILM An Education On general release from 30th October So rarely does a British...
In fact
Prospect / October 21, 2009
Turn your world upside down
Number cruncher
Stephen Nickell / October 21, 2009
The resource curse
Everyday philosophy
Nigel Warburton / October 21, 2009
Grey days ahead
Dr Pangloss
Brian Eno / October 21, 2009
The post-theoretical age
Diary
Prospect / October 21, 2009
BRITAIN A political party that does what it says on the tin The 2010 general election...
Letters
Prospect / October 21, 2009
No such thing as altruism 27th September 2009 Matthew Taylor (October) should stay...
If I ruled the world
Sam Leith / October 21, 2009
What happens to your body after you’re dead is none of your business. To stop the...
The way we were
Ian Irvine / October 21, 2009
Three extracts from diaries and memoirs recording first encounters.

Science and Technology

Temperature: where is the tipping point?
Sam Knight / October 21, 2009
Emissions are a cumulative game
A mountain to climb
Damian Kahya / October 21, 2009
The coal industry is trying to reinvent itself by capturing and burying carbon emissions...
The human time bomb
Alex Renton / October 21, 2009
To cut emissions we have to curb world population. So why isn’t this Copenhagen’s top...

Arts & Books

Through a story, darkly
Julie Myerson / October 21, 2009
David Vann’s violent treatment of his father’s suicide moves novelist Julie Myerson...
Who's afraid of the avant-garde?
Philip Ball / October 21, 2009
There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and...
The bestselling persuaders
Tom Chatfield / October 21, 2009
Behavioural economics has been the toast of both politicians and publishers in recent...
Imagine there's no Stalin
Victor Sebestyen / October 21, 2009
Two new biographies help us to ask one of the great unanswered questions of the last...
Smallscreen
Peter Bazalgette / October 21, 2009
Squeamishness is old hat. A new generation of crime dramas encourages us to revel in...
Performance notes
Martin Kettle / October 21, 2009
Plácido Domingo’s switch from tenor to baritone will confirm him as the most ambitious...
Private view
Ben Lewis / October 21, 2009
A Courtauld Gallery exhibition of the building site paintings of Frank Auerbach puts him...
The first summer
Danny Kruger / October 21, 2009
One company's work with ex-offender
Widescreen: The First Movie
Mark Cousins / October 21, 2009
Fresh from winning the Prix Italia for best arts documentary, Mark Cousins' account of...
The way we were
Ian Irvine / October 21, 2009
Three extracts from diaries and memoirs recording first encounters.

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