May 2004 issue of Prospect Magazine (#98)
Features
Jytte Klausen / May 20, 2004
Too many Muslim clerics in Europe do not understand the lives of the young Muslims they...
Donald Hirsch / May 20, 2004
Inequality has slightly increased but poverty seems to have sustainably declined
Panos Karnezis / May 20, 2004
Artemio, the rubbish disposal man, encounters a visitor from the underworld
James Fergusson / May 20, 2004
My Afghan friend Mir saw his cousin Gulabuddin arrested on a rape charge in London. This...
Sebastian Smee / May 20, 2004
I took a facial coding expert around the National Gallery to "read" some portraits, with...
Paul Seabright / May 20, 2004
Liberalism is not 300 years old; it was born 10,000 years ago with the invention of...
Eamonn Fingleton / May 20, 2004
Despite a bloody history, Japan and China are now firm friends, both economically and...
prospect / May 20, 2004
What's happening to stage two of Labour's constitutional reforms? How is stage one...
Robert Hazell / May 20, 2004
What's happening to stage two of Labour's constitutional reforms? How is stage one...
Opinions
Bruce Ackerman / May 20, 2004
We should hold public holidays to discuss the issues before big votes
Robert Reich / May 20, 2004
The Republicans will remain in control even if John Kerry wins
Robert Cottrell / May 20, 2004
Is it true that the EU will collapse if it stands still?
Regulars
Harvey Cole / May 20, 2004
Sedgefield nonsense
Sedgefield borough "has the highest council tax in the...
Diversity on the Titanic
23rd March 2004
In his piece on rap (March) Nick Crowe states...
David Goodhart / May 20, 2004
Bruce Ackerman is an American academic with a knack for coming up with radical policy...
Arts & Books
Rachel Holmes / May 20, 2004
This novel restores Afrikaans as a voice of real importance
Erik Tarloff / May 20, 2004
The debate over Shostakovich's "collusion" is inconclusive; the music is not
Julian Evans / May 20, 2004
As it joins the EU, Hungary can teach us to dream of new possibilities