From Mean Streets to Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese has shaped modern cinema

Neuroscience gives the wrong answer

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Voters are clear what they want Westminster to do—and not do

The US President is one of the most effective statesmen in modern American history

Quantitative easing is taboo in Europe

Media pressure forces politicians to make rapid decisions on complex questions

The world needs an idealist—but not an anarchist

It’s time for the UK to give England more of a voice—and this is how to do it

None of the political parties has a plan for the deficit

The North Wiltshire answer to the West Lothian question

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We may have to use force in the Middle East, but we should not relinquish our values

Envious of Hong Kong, mainland Chinese youth nonetheless identify little with local...

This month, Prospect's food columnist Wendell Steavenson discovers the perfect restaurant...

The world needs an idealist—but not an anarchist

A way of evening the odds, or counterproductive and wasteful? Our panellists battle it out

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

From Mean Streets to Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese has shaped modern cinema

A new book about Hannah Arendt reveals the playful side of one of the 20th century's most...

What do you make of quantum theory? One response is that it is weird or hopelessly...

Francis Fukuyama's passion for democracy seems to have deserted him

Tim Parks brilliantly skewers the pieties of the literary world

Marilynne Robinson's novels expose the religious wiring behind American culture

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Our critics choose the best of the month's culture

Football used to be the game of the English working-class. While many of the civic and...

This month, Prospect's food columnist Wendell Steavenson discovers the perfect restaurant...

"It struck me that having a safe mind to turn to is what psychotherapy is about"

"I wonder whether these fears are the product of an inherited disposition"

"The greater the variety of wines you choose, the more interest and enjoyment you will...

"Chez Henri was so small that there was no room for tables inside—four tables were set...