February 2017 issue
What’s so great about democracy? How populist insurgencies are stoking an authoritarian backlash—from liberals. Also: Why the Kremlin’s cyber war is succeeding
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Essays
The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, after the second atomic bomb was dropped there in 1945 ©Cultura/Rex/Shutterstock
Nuclear disarmament agreements haven't worked—is there another solution?
Matthew Harries
Leading Brexiteers proposed Britain should reinforce its relationship with "natural allies" Australia, Canada and New Zealand ©Royal Geographical Society, London, UK/Bridgeman Images
The Anglosphere: new enthusiasm for an old dream
Duncan Bell
Why did women vote for Trump?
Melissa Deckman
"I worry that a serious assault on the ballot box is coming" ©Teenbull, Mega/Pixel, Claire McAdams/Rex Shutterstock, Means/Getty Images
The state of democracy: voting out
Tom Clark
Piercing words for Threadneedle Street: Theresa May warns the Bank not to ignore "bad side effects" of its monetary medicine ©High Level/Rex/Shutterstock
Zero interest rates: the point of no return?
Paul Wallace
Interview: Michael Lewis—What's wrong with Trump's mind
Jay Elwes
The fathers of behavioural economics: Amos Tversky, left, who died in 1996 and Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in 2002 ©
Behavioural economics: did Kahneman and Tversky change the world?
John Kay
Makeshift homes in the SAWA refugee camp in Bar Elias, eastern Lebanon
Syria's voices of hope
Sameer Rahim
"There is nothing new about the Kremlin trying to subvert liberal democracies. It's been going on for a long time" ©Reuters/Alexei Nikolsky/Ria Novosti/Kremlin
Click for regime change
Luke Harding
Regulars
The Prospect Crossword: February 2018
Prospect Team
The Prospect Puzzle: February 2018
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Foreword: February 2017—Don't take democracy for granted
Tom Clark
Space scout robot from Japan in the 1970s © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Prospect Recommends: Science this month
Anjana Ahuja
Speed data: who are Labour's members?
Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
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Recommends: The best opera this month
Neil Norman
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Recommends: The best films this month
Francine Stock
The way we were: On the wagon
Ian Irvine
The Duel: Should we give up dieting?
Michael Mosley & Susie Orbach
Brief encounter: Cathy Newman
Prospect Team
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If I ruled the world: Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
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In Fact, January 2017
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Puzzles and Enigmas by Barry R Clarke: issue 251
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The Generalist by Didymus: issue 251
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Kazimir Malevich, Peasants, 1930 ©2016 State Russian Museum St Petersburg
Prospect recommends: The best art this month
Emma Crichton-Miller
Opinions
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England, you lot need a good occupation
Joris Luyendijk
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The refugee crisis solved in 24 pages
Mary Dejevsky
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Turkey's fearful descent
Alev Scott
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Viktor Orbán: How to subvert a strongman
Rob Sharp
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How Hillary got robbed
Desmond King and Rogers Smith
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Theresa May, or she may not
Gaby Hinsliff
Arts & Books
Books in brief: Judas by Amos Oz
Ben Judah
Radical, A Bigger Splash, 1967 ©David Hockney
David Hockney and the joy of looking
Emma Crichton-Miller
Books in brief: Who Lost Russia? By Peter Conradi
JP O'Malley
Books in brief: Jonathan Swift, The Reluctant Rebel by John Stubbs
Kevin Jackson
Books in brief: Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
William Skidelsky
Books in brief: Alice in Westminster by Rachel Reeves
Rachel Holmes
Stuck in space: Jim (Chris Pratt) chats with bartender Arthur (Michael Sheen) in Passengers ©Sony Pictures Releasing
Close encounters of the gooey kind
Adam Mars-Jones
Books in brief: Materialism by Terry Eagleton
Alex Dean
Books in brief: Alice in Space by Gillian Beer
Houman Barekat
Books in brief: Re-thinking the BBC—Public Media in the 21st Century
David Patrikarakos
A student confronts a policeman in a 2009 protest against tuition fees in London ©Peter MacDiarmid/Getty Images
Can we trace our age of anger back to the enlightenment?
Stefan Collini
High-profile antics: hundreds of members of ACT UP protest at the lack of an effective treatment for Aids in New York, 1990 ©Frances Roberts/Alamy Stock Photo
Fighting Aids: getting pills into bodies
Elizabeth Pisani
Society and Culture
DIY investor: Weighed down by cash
Andy Davis
Wine: The importance of the cork
Barry Smith
Life of the mind: When small-talk's a miracle
Anna Blundy
The Duel: Should we give up dieting?
Michael Mosley & Susie Orbach
©Kitty Wheeler Shaw
Matters of taste: Jellied zeal
Wendell Steavenson
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Leith on language: The joy of an unreadable book
Sam Leith
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