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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...
David Goodhart / December 20, 2003
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...
David Goodhart / November 20, 2003
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...
A garden worm has five pairs of hearts.
More than 10m people in the UK suffer from constipation - a third of them permanently.
The annual budget for the UN's core functions is about $1.25bn -...
Oscar for stewart
3rd September 2003
Congratulations to Ian Stewart (September) for the most lucid description of quantum theory I have ever read. He deserves an Oscar.
Les Spong
Solihull, West...
David Goodhart / October 20, 2003
As British politics relocates from the Hutton inquiry to the party conference halls it is dominated by two "truths": New Labour is in turmoil, and New Labour will win the next election. Blair has...