December 2009 issue of Prospect Magazine (#165)
Features
Evgeny Morozov / November 18, 2009
The internet is meant to help activists, enable democratic protest and weaken the grip of...
Nathan Shachar / November 18, 2009
Peace has broken out in the West Bank city. Why is there a conspiracy of silence about it?
Jonathan Ford / November 18, 2009
The only way to restore sanity and security to finance is to stop banks growing so...
David Herman / November 18, 2009
Stephen Poliakoff is the only remaining dramatist exploring the recent British past. We...
David Edmonds / November 18, 2009
Armenia excels at chess. Its top player now has a shot at becoming world champion. How...
John Lloyd / November 18, 2009
Jeremy Clarkson is more than a belligerent television presenter—he voices the...
Prospect / November 18, 2009
Images of the international FIDE chess championships from photographer Stuart Franklin
James Crabtree / November 18, 2009
What sort of person uses Twitter?
Opinions
William Cullerne Bown / November 18, 2009
David Nutt’s sacking stems from scientists’ overconfidence in their ability to shape...
Elizabeth Pisani / November 18, 2009
Parents and schools are both useless at teaching the facts of life. We must learn from...
Anthony Seldon / November 18, 2009
Our ex-PM has achieved little since leaving No 10. EU rejection will make him more...
Catherine Hakim / November 18, 2009
Stronger maternity rights can help mothers, but they will hurt employers and women in...
Mark Ashurst / November 18, 2009
Supporting Kenyan vegetable growers is more important than obsessing about buying...
Alex De Waal / November 17, 2009
Avoiding failure in Afghanistan means embracing its patronage politics—bribes and all
Regulars
Julie Burchill’s Deptford
23rd October 2009
According to Julie Burchill...
David Goodhart / November 18, 2009
William Hague has been narrowly party political and unpatriotic
Stephen Nickell / November 18, 2009
During the second half of the 20th century, the average age of retirement fell in the...
William Davies / November 18, 2009
These days, you can’t buy so much as a chocolate bar without being given a receipt....
Science and Technology
John Naish / November 18, 2009
The media is full of scare stories about how Twitter and other new technologies are...
Robin Powell / November 18, 2009
China’s monopoly on rare earth metals could choke economies across the world
Arts & Books
Sam Leith / November 18, 2009
Our fascination with horror films reflects the anxiety of the middle classes—caught...
Andrew Brown / November 18, 2009
Stieg Larsson’s fiction replaces Sweden’s socialist dream with an individualist...
Malise Ruthven / November 18, 2009
A new book offers a sober corrective to some recent misconceptions about terrorism, says...
William Skidelsky / November 18, 2009
A biography of one of America’s greatest short-story writers eloquently depicts his...
Joy Lo Dico / November 18, 2009
America’s longest-running and most influential prime-time television drama is an...
Martin Kettle / November 18, 2009
What is the English National Opera for? Visits to the London Coliseum and a new official...
Ben Lewis / November 18, 2009
An exciting exhibition of “outsider” art also warns of the dangers of bringing this...
Mark Cousins / November 18, 2009
I went to see a franchise horror movie hoping for mind-emptying mayhem. What I got was a...