January 1998 issue of Prospect Magazine (#26)
Features
Jerome Burne / January 20, 1998
How parents behave towards their children may have much less influence on their...
Fred Halliday / January 20, 1998
Is he an Andropov or a Gorbachev? Last May's presidential elections in Iran saw the...
George Walden / January 20, 1998
A few weeks before the Pope's January visit, George Walden arrived in Cuba to find that...
Geoffrey Wheatcroft / January 20, 1998
Some say that the story of our times is that the right has won politically, but the left...
James Harding / January 20, 1998
Popular culture is lagging behind real life in the new China, as political control over...
Timothy Garton-Ash / January 20, 1998
As Britain takes over the presidency of the EU, its prospects in Europe look rosier than...
John Lloyd / January 20, 1998
Russia is no longer an empire but not yet a "civic" nation - into this vacuum have...
Opinions
Fritz Scharpf / January 20, 1998
Germany does not have an uncompetitive economy, but it badly needs to reform its welfare...
Roger Scruton / January 20, 1998
The disorder of the modern city stems in part from the modernist design of telephone...
Paul Ormerod / January 20, 1998
Why does market failure appear to be endemic in the toy industry? Surely better planning...
David Donnison / January 20, 1998
The policy response to unemployment depends on where you consider it from. David Donnison...
Mark Freedland / January 20, 1998
The National Lottery is part of a meretricious culture of pure luck. Mark Freedland and...
prospect / January 20, 1998
Imagine what would happen if the US and its western allies went to war with a "rogue"...
Regulars
Science and Technology
Geoff Watts / January 20, 1998
How can doctors possibly keep in touch with all they need to know?
Arts & Books
John Plender / January 20, 1998
Japanese spirituality and how the French left misunderstands the 1930s
Nicolas Walter / January 20, 1998
It was the equivalent of the family Bible in many secular British households-but does...
Peter Wayne / January 20, 1998
Blake Morrison's reflection on the murder of toddler James Bulger by two ten year olds is...
Simon Frith / January 20, 1998
To his surprise Simon Frith finds he agrees with most of Roger Scruton's assertions about...
Herb Greer / January 20, 1998
Private sector commercial musicals, such as Chicago, thrive while public sector opera is...
David Howell / January 20, 1998
Despite its current problems Japan still wields huge economic power. But the country...
Nadine Meisner / January 20, 1998
Ballet used to be popular with both elite and mass audiences. The Royal Ballet was a...
Andrew Ferguson / January 20, 1998
Ten years after its US publication Tom Wolfe's novel is worth another look. But its bleak...