The Prospect Interview #136: Working motherhood, with Emma Lundin
Why it's time for an equality revolution in parenting
The Prospect Interview #135: Trumpocalypse, with David Frum
How Donald Trump has upended American democracy—and how to fix it
The Prospect Interview #134: The global crisis of sleep, with Barbara Speed
It's become somewhat of a trend to warn of a "global sleep crisis." But where's the science backing that up?
The Prospect interview #133: GE Moore, the philosopher who disappeared
The man was revered among his 20th century contemporaries as a god, and worked alongside Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Why has history forgotten him?
The Prospect Interview #132: Shakespeare’s plague, with Emma Smith
Lessons from Coriolanus, King Lear, and Venus and Adonis
The Prospect Interview #131: Rutger Bregman’s Humankind
The Dutch historian makes a case for optimism in difficult times
The Prospect Interview #130: George Eliot’s philosophy, with Clare Carlisle
Seeing the celebrated novelist and author of Middlemarch in a new light
The Prospect Interview #129: Rebuilding the world after Covid-19
Margaret MacMillan, Dani Rodrik and Ngaire Woods on reshaping the globe after the pandemic
The Prospect Interview #128: Slowing down the world, with Danny Dorling
The Oxford geographer on whether we can escape the hectic pace of our lives—and how the pandemic is re-shaping our imagination
The Prospect Interview #127: Behind the science of Covid-19
Reassessing the UK's herd immunity strategy—and when will lockdown end?
The Prospect Interview #126: The Nazi leader who vanished, with Philippe Sands
The author of East West Street returns with another history about a dark family past
The Prospect Interview #125: Reconfiguring race with Thomas Chatterton Williams
A different account of blackness in America
The Prospect Interview #124: Colum McCann on writing the Israel-Palestine conflict
What does fiction have to say to a seemingly endless real world battle?
The Prospect Interview #123: Paul Krugman on zombie economics
Plus what the Nobel Prize-winner makes of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders
The Prospect Interview #122: The political rivalry that shaped the Middle East
Plus what happened to the Arab Spring
The Prospect Interview #121: Britain’s language learning crisis explained
Plus what it takes to master a new language
The Prospect Interview #120: Thomas Piketty on capitalism and inequality today
The French economist of inequality offers his views on Brexit, the wealth tax—and who he thinks will really beat Trump
The Prospect Interview #119: Women warriors throughout history, with Julie Wheelwright
From the myth of the Amazons to Joan of Arc
The Prospect Interview #118: Being a good opposition leader, with Steve Richards
Behind the one quality that helps opposition leaders succeed
The Prospect Interview #117: The AI delusion, with Philip Ball
Plus the difference between machine learning and deep learning, and why it's easier to beat a world champion chess player than use common sense