We see it when Jesus rides into Jerusalem on an ass, when he tells Peter to put away his sword, and when he dies on the cross. “If you are indeed the Son of God, save yourself and us,” grumbles one of ...

Donald Trump behaves increasingly like Shakespeare’s King Lear. “I will have such revenges on you both / That all the world shall—I will do such things— / What they are, yet I know not: but they shall ...

In one of those opening lines at which he excelled, WH Auden caught the temper of his time, and our time too: “The earth turns over, our side feels the cold.” China is an increasingly assertive power ...

There is no time more miserable than 4pm on a gloomy Sunday afternoon in January. It is the devil’s own hour, a witching hour, when one’s life appears at its worst, and even the smallest stresses and ...

“Less Holocaust, more Anne Frank,” was the advice Michael Grunwald received from the CEO of a publishing house who opted not to bid for his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth. Grunwald took notice.

Former AOC adviser: ‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian takeover!’ ...

Mark Carney’s Davos speech was an expression of fear, not an accurate description of reality—as Starmer’s visit to China this week shows ...

Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

It’s unlikely that Elon Musk has ever heard of Southport, far less visited it. He has five or six companies to run, after all, and has been busy this week sounding off about Venezuela, Kamala Harris, ...

It is quite something to discover, a quarter of a century too late, that your old PhD supervisor is satan. I was a 24-year-old research student at Warwick when I met Nick Land. He was just four years ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...

Fit for a king: the reclusive billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili has built a modern-day palace overlooking the Georgian capital Tbilisi On top of a ridge looking down on the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, ...