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November 2007 issue of Prospect Magazine (#140)

Features

Dangerous history
Michael Lind / November 25, 2007
Robert Kagan's history of 19th-century US foreign policy sees American action as...
The real lessons of Ulster
Dean Godson / November 25, 2007
The Northern Ireland conflict is now fought over the lessons of the Troubles. One...
Tumultuous Britain
Walter Russell Mead / November 25, 2007
There are three leading views about the "special relationship" between the United States...
Masters of disgrace
William Skidelsky / November 25, 2007
Philip Roth and JM Coetzee are very different writers with a lot in common: their hard...
How we "count" migration
Michael Blastland / November 25, 2007
People are very hard to count, especially in a free society. The failings in Britain's...
The real GM food scandal
Dick Taverne / November 25, 2007
GM foods are safe, healthy and essential if we ever want to achieve decent living...
Understanding the junta
Nic Dunlop / November 25, 2007
A product of the Japanese imperial army, Burma's military dominates everything. When I...
One day in Harare
Petina Gappah / November 25, 2007
Inflation may be running at 7,000 per cent, yet in many respects life goes on as before...

Opinions

Breakthrough in Kariba
Stephen Chan / November 25, 2007
After a South African-brokered deal, the outlines of a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe are starting...
Better bequests
David Halpern / November 25, 2007
Governments should encourage us to leave wealth not to our children, but to our...
Trouble in Islamabad
Kishwer Falkner / November 25, 2007
Pakistan is once again teetering on the edge of crisis. "Managed" democracy may be the...
Reading Camus in Salford
Paul Lay / November 25, 2007
Steeped in European culture, Ian Curtis epitomised the 1970s young British working-class...
Rethinking risk
Mark Hannam / November 25, 2007
Until regulators get as smart as the City, we will be stuck with political solutions to...
A new deal with Russia?
Charles Grant / November 25, 2007
It's in the interests of both the west and Russia to seek a grand bargain on the issues...

Regulars

Editorial
David Goodhart / November 25, 2007
The human insulin used to treat diabetes is genetically engineered: the human gene that...
Letters
prospect / November 25, 2007
Correcting a corrector 26th September 2007 Without offence to Derek Robinson (Letters,...
News and curiosities
prospect / November 25, 2007
The art market Friezes over Marc Bijl's Triumph (proposal for a memorial to the Iraq...
Will's words
William Skidelsky / November 25, 2007
Lang uages, generally, are not created by design; they come about by accident. As such...
Grayling's question
AC Grayling / November 25, 2007
Is there a "right" to have more children than one can feed and care for? If so, does it...
Enigmas and puzzles
Ian Stewart / November 25, 2007
I always think they look like music," Sanguimenta said. "Yes… what? What are you...
In fact
prospect / November 25, 2007
Doris Lessing is the aunt of Gregor Gysi, an east German lawyer who until recently led...

Arts & Books

Is God returning to Europe?
E K / November 25, 2007
A leading US Christian says that faith in Europe will be re-energised by a creative...
Political thrills
Erik Tarloff / November 25, 2007
In imagining Tony Blair's future, Robert Harris goes some way to explaining the mistakes...
Lost in translation
Tom Chatfield / November 25, 2007
Adam Thirlwell's history of the novel incorporates a dazzling array of authors, anecdotes...
We started something great
Ben Lewis / November 25, 2007
Orlando Figes's magisterial work tells the story of Stalin's Russia through the lives of...
Widescreen
Mark Cousins / November 25, 2007
The Russian film Day Watch is daft and even boring at times. But it is a stylistic...
Performance notes
Martin Kettle / November 25, 2007
Philip Glass remains a major force, even as the minimalist movement ebbs away. Plus...
Smallscreen
Christopher Hird / November 25, 2007
The recent furore over Channel 4's child-rearing documentary series Bringing Up Baby...

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