The second Trump presidency has proved beyond doubt that cowardice is contagious. A blustering, mentally unstable bully has cowed powerful law firms, giant media companies, venerated universities and ...

Britain has long underestimated Eastern Europe as a source of strategic knowledge, treating it primarily as a region that ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. What do we think we know about Baruch Spinoza? We know he was one of the greatest philosophers of the ...

In September 2019, when Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote began to work on what became Hot Mess (currently playing at the Other Palace theatre in London), the moment felt urgent: the biggest climate ...

Christiane Jatahy, the director of A Trial – after An Enemy of the People, which opened this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, was born under the Brazilian military dictatorship of the late ...

History tells us when new prime ministers go early they usually win. But it takes courage, especially when you already have a big majority ...

One summer day in 1994, a young law student called Jo Maugham arrived at a central London office to cover for a secretary who’d called in sick. Smart in his suit and tie, he was surprised to be ...

How the UK Supreme Court decided a fundamental rights case without using human rights law ...

It hasn’t happened very often, and when it has happened it’s often been a bore. We talk to the makers of ‘Hot Mess’ about how to make art out of a crisis ...

Levy’s latest book is certainly a contradictory mash-up of 34 essays, stories and short texts. It includes a taut telegram to an electricity pylon, her admiration of the ovoid quality of lemons and ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

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 ...