“Once upon a time, contracts dissolved once you were dead… but big tech companies are holding the same terms of the contract in tact with the deceased person.” How has Facebook...

UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson has made headlines for his contested allegiances within the party. Journalist Kevin Maguire joins Prospect to discuss the burning question often heard...

What happens when a child conceived using a donor sperm wants to meet their biological father? Wendy Kramer, the “donor detective”, runs the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR) which has 63,461...

What does it mean to translate a work of fiction—and can we really call one translation "better" than others? Writer Miranda France joins Prospect to discuss the strange art of literary...

Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam discuss how we misunderstand the nature of evil.

A truly global approach to climate change doesn't just involve a policy shift—it will mean changing how we live our lives together. Author and researcher Mike Berners-Lee joins Prospect to explain...

The political playwright on his meeting with one of Britain’s most controversial parliamentarians

Sameer Rahim is joined by Jill Lepore to discuss how US presidents use—and abuse—the story of America's past

Biographer Richard Evans on the Marxist historian and national treasure Eric Hobsbawm

Adam Wagner talks to Prospect about twitter tribalism and how to rise above it