November 2013 issue of Prospect Magazine (#212)
Features
Jacob Kirkegaard / October 17, 2013
Under the current two-party political system, America is essentially ungovernable
John Kerr / October 17, 2013
Former civil servants give their view on the case for reform
Peter Kellner / October 17, 2013
The Conservatives were not always so unpopular in the north of England—can they win it...
Germaine Greer / October 17, 2013
The Royal Academy’s new exhibition shows how little Brits know about Australian art
Bronwen Maddox / October 17, 2013
How could Europe’s leaders have “allowed the First World War to happen, then...
Peter Riddell / October 17, 2013
The competence and purpose of the civil service is under scrutiny
Serena Kutchinsky / October 17, 2013
What’s wrong with the civil service? Too many mistakes and too cut off from the country
Opinions
Philip Coggan / October 17, 2013
Alan Greenspan appears to have learnt nothing from his time at the top of the Fed
Justin Webb / October 17, 2013
Afghanistan is a contest of stamina between the US Congress and the Taliban
David McKittrick / October 17, 2013
Prospect’s counter-factual column
George Magnus / October 17, 2013
As the west recovers and emerging economies start to struggle, the pattern of growth is...
Regulars
Prospect Team / October 22, 2013
AC Grayling Vs Emily Thornberry
Prospect Team / October 17, 2013
It’s a bleak portrait that George Packer presents of the United States (p20), crippled...
Duncan Bannatyne / October 17, 2013
Nobody should have an unfair advantage
David McKittrick / October 17, 2013
Prospect’s counter-factual column
Science and Technology
Frank Close / October 8, 2013
The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics waited 48 years for the confirmation of...
Arts & Books
Jonathan Derbyshire / October 17, 2013
A new biography of François Mitterrand shows how a man from a right-wing bourgeois...
Prospect Team / October 17, 2013
What Bath was to Austen, or Paris to Balzac, Willesden is to Zadie Smith
Dinah Birch / October 17, 2013
When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Britain was on the brink of unrest. Forty...
Maria Misra / October 17, 2013
Perry Anderson takes aim at the abiding cliché of contemporary commentary on India
Bettany Hughes / October 17, 2013
Latin might be classified as a long-dead language—but this work reminds us that no one...
Sam Tanenhaus / October 17, 2013
A new book about Philip Roth shows that his achievement has been to wring so many great...
Elaine Showalter / October 17, 2013
Alexander McCall Smith on the profound ways Auden has influenced his life
David Herman / September 30, 2013
Walter White has been damned by his pact with the devil; but the morality debate tells us...