The left’s “green growth” myth
Renewable energy embodies everything socialism opposed
Tag: Socialism
What’s wrong with France?
The travails of François Hollande are a symptom of France's deeper malaise
Tony Judt: the last interview
Exclusive to Prospect online, the full transcript of Peter Jukes's interview with historian and author Tony Judt
Modern times
While browsing at Ron's second-hand bookshop, be careful not to tread on the sleeping tramps
Whatever happened to the German left?
After 16 years' exile, are Germany's Social Democrats ready to return to national power? They have an elusive programme, a leadership divided between a Blairite and a Jospinite view of social democracy, and two other parties of the left snapping…
Italian futures
It is just over two years since Romano Prodi's centre-left coalition came to power on the ruins of Italy's postwar political system. By joining Emu in the first wave it has achieved one of its main goals. But will it…
Strictly personal
Monthly notebook
The good state
Octogenarian economist John Kenneth Galbraith no longer fulminates against consumerism. But, says Kenneth Minogue, his view of the good society is still irredeemably statist
No earthly paradise
Our century has seen the triumph of Eduard Bernstein's evolutionary socialism against revolutionary utopias. Stephen Tindale says that we must now prepare for evolutionary environmentalism