A third to a half of America's Christians have changed denominations in their lives. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons. Only 9 per cent of South Africans speak English...

If Tony Blair's backbench dissenters on top-up fees cannot be persuaded by any other means, it may be time to appeal to their distrust of America. Continued decline of Britain's top universities...

Marx and Lincoln 15th October 2003 Donald Sassoon (October) put some good questions to Karl Marx, but the old gentleman seems to be suffering from forgetfulness. In listing Bismarck, Lincoln,...

How higher education could look in 2020 if Blair's top-up fees battle is lost

Misrepresenting Marx 29th October 2003 Your mock interview with Karl Marx (October) repeats a myth about Marx and Darwin originally propagated by Isaiah Berlin and long known to be false. While Marx...

No western nation has ever implemented laissez-faire capitalism and universal suffrage at the same time. Yet in the era of globalisation, this is what the west often urges upon poor countries....

Just four bouquets of flowers were left outside Kensington Palace this year on the sixth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In the US, black women gain twice as many master's...

The poison of Europe is being drawn from British politics. It is an odd time to make this claim as wrangling resumes over the draft EU constitution. (Click here to download Prospect's published...

The ANC on "Disgrace" 3rd October 2003 The scholarly journal Interventions published a series of articles on JM Coetzee's Disgrace last autumn, which challenge RW Johnson's rather crude reading...