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Looking back on 2010—plus our top 10 articles of the year

Prospect
/ December 31, 2010 / 1 Comment

It was an election year in Britain in the shadow of the financial crash and a giant fiscal deficit; the war in Afghanistan rumbled on inconclusively; the Euro tottered, President Obama stuttered and global power continued to shift eastwards. So it was a year full of news, and more than...
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Prospect @ Battle of Ideas 2010

Prospect
/ October 7, 2010 / Leave a comment

Prospect is proud to be partnering the Battle for the Past debates on Sunday 31st October at this year’s Battle of Ideas festival. There will be five different debates during the day featuring Prospect contributors, including editor David Goodhart, as well as top public intellectuals, including Roger Scruton and Bettany...
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Cosmic man

Paul Broks
/ February 22, 2010 / Leave a comment

Martin Rees, Britain’s leading cosmologist, studies stars. Neuropsychologists like me study brains. But we seem to find a shared wavelength on multiverses, aliens, climate change and science funding
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Crisis watch

Simon Johnson
/ January 27, 2010 / Leave a comment

Prospect’s top public intellectual of the financial crisis welcomes the fact that Barack Obama is finally getting tough on US banks
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An intellectual surge

James Crabtree
/ January 17, 2009 / Leave a comment

Thinking up the surge, "winning" the war in Iraq, and rethinking America's military strategy. David Petraeus is a worthy pick for Prospect's public intellectual of 2008
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What’s the big idea?

James Harkin
/ January 17, 2009 / Leave a comment

Crowdsourcing, nudging and mass collaborating jostled eagerly. But was 2008 a vintage year for ideas books? It was a mixed bag—and perhaps not serious enough
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Public intellectual of 2008: David Petraeus

James Crabtree
/ December 17, 2008 / 8 Comments

Noam Chomsky. Francis Fukuyama. Anthony Giddens. Christopher Hitchens. Slavoj Zizek. All names that didn’t even make the top 10 in Prospect’s contest to crown 2008′s public intellectual of the year. So who did? Moving on from previous attempts to list the worldâ€™s 100 greatest living public intellectuals, this year we...
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Prospect’s Public Intellectual of 2008 – who just missed out?

James Crabtree
/ December 11, 2008 / 1 Comment

We just put the Christmas edition of the magazine to bed, at 3am on Wednesday morning. If you join up for our Facebook group you can see the new cover, and get an overview of the contents. If you aren’t on Facebook, like David Goodhart, our hold-out editor, I’ll put...
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