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Inside the July 2008 issue:(click cover for full contents)
A modern Ottoman
Ehsan MasoodOver half a million people voted in our poll to find the world's top public intellectual—and Turkish cleric Fetullah Gülen won. Gülen is the modern face of Sufi Islam and influences Turkish politics through the ruling AK party.
PLUS Tom Nuttall analyses the campaign that propelled Gülen to victory.
How to stop the next bubble
Mark Hannam, Jonathan Ford, John Gieve, Anatole Kaletsky, George Soros & Martin Wolf The financial crisis shows that laissez-faire regulation doesn't work. The authorities must get a grip to avoid a mega-bubble. But we may need an even deeper crisis for that to happen.
PLUS Julian Gough on the sacred mystery of capital.
Portrait: George Osborne
Jonathan FordThe shadow chancellor’s last conference speech set the course for a dramatic Tory revival and turned him into a "big beast." But what will he do with power if and when he gets it?
An interview with Nicholas Stern
Alun AndersonStern's report on the economics of global warming changed the climate debate in 2006. Now he has an ambitious plan for a global political deal on climate change.
The voice of Tiananmen
Tom ChatfieldChina is booming, yet deafening silences remain in its official history. Now, Ma Jian has produced an account of the 1989 Tiananmen protests which offers a model of how a modern Chinese literature alive to history might be written. Tom Chatfield reads the novel and talks to its author.
They stood by their man
David FrumThe Bush administration prized loyalty over competence. The next White House team will do the opposite.
A viscous circle of subsidyderek browerSubsidies in poorer countries have helped to push oil prices to record levels. But there's not much the west can do about them.
Sympathy for the deviltom de castellaHeidi Holland's biography of Robert Mugabe does something deeply unsettling—it makes me feel the dictator's pain.
Dispatches from Zimbabwestephen chanOur correspondent in Harare reports on the latest developments in the aftermath of Morgan Tsvangirai's election withdrawal.
England arisedavid goodhartIf the Conservatives win the next election, the Scots may end up leaving the union. How can England take a political form without hastening the Scots to the exit?
Writing against himselfthomas de waalHe may deny it, but Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's most important political voice. Even Dostoevsky would have agreed.
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