Below you’ll find the voting form to let us know who you think should be crowned top thinker, as well as a space to let us know any names that you think should have been on the list. We’ll collate the ...
There is a feeling of utter randomness to The Position of Spoons: and Other Intimacies, Deborah Levy’s new collection of nonfiction writing. In a world of pithy blurbs—and the publishing industry’s ...
I recently moved from the hot, dusty Arizona desert to Seaport on Manhattan’s East River to take care of my adult daughter, who was awaiting a kidney transplant at nearby NYU Langone hospital. Our ...
Luke McGee (“Sorry, Rejoiners—the UK’s path back to Europe will be slow”, Prospect online, October) makes good points, but doesn’t examine the alternative ...
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 ...
On 6th December 2023, a serious incident occurred at the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). The society’s director, Molly Rosenberg, cancelled publication of its annual Review as it was about to go to ...
Some reduce the UK’s appalling housing crisis to a three-word joke: “Demand? Meet supply.” Keir Starmer certainly sounds like he’s taken its logic to heart. With a bluntness that he avoids in ...
The world is inundated with celebrities. They dance, kick balls and eat slugs underwater en route to fame. Their stars burn bright for a short while then disappear into oblivion, not having done much ...
How did the US come to this? James Shapiro’s The Playbook doesn’t contain all the answers—but, in its telling of the struggle over a New Deal theatre programme in the 1930s, it does have some. Here, ...
What is the first news event you can recall? The military coup in Chile in 1973, when Augusto Pinochet overthrew the president, ­Salvador Allende. I was eight and my father was a ­British diplomat in ...
Most foreign journalists are barred by Israel from entering Gaza. Most, but not all. In October 2024, the right-wing polemicist Douglas Murray was given exclusive access to the Tel al-Sultan district ...
From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s songs (“Tell me where all past times are”) to Wordsworth and Eliot (“All time is unredeemable”), poets have gone in search of lost time. It was this theme—one of ...