March 2004 issue of Prospect Magazine (#96)
Features
Jonathan Fenby / March 20, 2004
Elections in Taiwan may edge it towards autonomy from China. This puts America in a bind
Hassan M Fattah / March 20, 2004
The lessons I have learned setting up a newspaper in Iraq should be studied by the...
Tim King / March 20, 2004
France's banning of religious symbols in state schools is incomprehensible to many...
Ruy Teixeira / March 20, 2004
In 2000 America was a 50:50 nation. But the long-term economic and cultural trends favour...
Anatol Lieven / March 20, 2004
America's "Jacksonian" nationalism is responsible for turning the US from a conservative...
Nick Crowe / March 20, 2004
Sapped of verbal vitality and ghetto pride, hip hop's profanities are little more than a...
Anthony Giddens / March 20, 2004
Dear David
1st February 2004
The prime minister has many troubles ahead. Yet,...
Joshua Kurlantzick / March 20, 2004
If the Democrats had won in 2000, would American foreign policy after 9/11 have taken an...
Opinions
Oliver Morton / March 20, 2004
Bush's Mars announcement might mean the end of American humans in space
Andrew Cooper / March 20, 2004
People are pretending to pollsters that they won't vote Labour
Gideon Lichfield / March 20, 2004
What happened to democracy in Russia? Why don't the Russians care?
Magnus Linklater / March 20, 2004
What could Andrew Gilligan's intelligence story have been?
David Goodhart / March 20, 2004
Can government evasiveness over Iraq be justified? Not quite
Regulars
In 1983, LA had three times as many workers in the aerospace industry as in the movie...
Harvey Cole / March 20, 2004
The cost of Iraq
The death toll among US forces in Iraq has now reached 530. That is just...
David Goodhart / March 20, 2004
Good morning America! As the first anniversary of the Iraq war looms and US politics...
Arts & Books
Tom Kirkwood / March 20, 2004
Can we gain anything from a maths book so technical that only experts can keep up?
Shereen El Feki / March 20, 2004
No government should allow reproductive cloning near humans. But it will happen
Andrew Moravcsik / March 20, 2004
The EU constitution is unglamorous, but it is what most governments wanted
Roy Foster / March 20, 2004
Fintan O'Toole, scourge of old Irish myths, has turned to the new myths of the economic...