November 2018 issue of Prospect Magazine

Features

Escaping checkmate: why human chess has survived the robot conquest
David Edmonds / October 18, 2018
Computers can now easily beat grandmasters. But as the World Chess Championship...

Is "political correctness" a force for good?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Simon Heffer / October 18, 2018
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Simon Heffer go head-to-head in this month's duel

Meet the 23-year-old activist who could change Pakistan
Samira Shackle / October 16, 2018
Armed only with a microphone and his social media accounts, can Manzoor Pashteen change a...

The rise of American socialism
Clare Malone / October 15, 2018
The Democratic Socialists of America are pulling the party of Clinton and Obama to the...

An island apart
Steve Bloomfield / October 15, 2018
"Global Britain" has become an oft-repeated phrase. Yet in reality, the Foreign Office is...

The woman who voted in 1868
Peter Kellner / October 13, 2018
Fifty years before some women were given the franchise, Lily Maxwell voted in a...

In data: Capturing the economic gap between London and the rest of Britain
Torsten Bell / October 12, 2018
Are people living in the capital actually better off?

How to save Britain from London
Paul Collier / October 12, 2018
Most of the country is hurting. But it won't be able to escape the shadow of the mighty...

Opinions

Why it's impossible to measure happiness
Julian Baggini / October 18, 2018
It's a problem philosophers have grappled with for centuries. What makes life go better...

Even today, Britain's Catholics still face prejudice
Catherine Pepinster / October 18, 2018
Nowadays, 5th November is about eating marshmallows and hot chestnuts. And yet a certain...

Britons think 22 per cent of the population will be Muslim by 2020. The real figure is 7 per cent
Bobby Duffy / October 18, 2018
What people get spectacularly wrong is often revealing

The Big Brexit bonfire - that'll never happen
Anneliese Dodds / October 17, 2018
The Shadow Treasury Minister tells Prospect: "We now see other EU countries threatening...
Britain will have to deal with China's huge banking system, but must "tread with some care"
Nicky Morgan: "Brexit could do tremendous damage to the City"
Jay Elwes / October 16, 2018
The Chair of the Treasury Select Committee answers Prospect's questions about Brexit,...

Brexit Britain's great financial question
Jay Elwes / October 15, 2018
Out in the global financial markets, where would a post-Brexit Britain fit?

How much has EU membership really helped countries like Latvia?
Mary Dejevsky / October 12, 2018
A generation after breaking with the Soviets, the mood in Riga is far from upbeat

America's compromised Supreme Court
Dahlia Lithwick / October 12, 2018
With Kavanaugh on the bench, the court will struggle to retain its authority

The IMF is in crisis
Barry Eichengreen / October 12, 2018
Its own finances are precarious and the US and China are battling for control

Pensions: the system should not force us to stand alone
Andy Davis / October 10, 2018
Social saving

The horrible truth: you're probably going to be talking about Brexit for the rest of your life
Ian Dunt / October 2, 2018
The finish line of 29th March is nothing more than a mirage

Regulars

The Prospect editorial: Capital-ism
Tom Clark / October 21, 2018
Britain is better off with one world city rather than none. But how much better would it...

In data: How smartphones took over our time
Chris Tilbury / October 19, 2018
As smartphone functionality has increased, so has the time we spend on them

Edmund White: "Make love to older, important people"
Prospect Team / October 17, 2018
The author and writer of The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading responds to Prospect's...

Letters: readers respond to our October 2018 issue
Prospect Team / October 16, 2018
Contributions from John Rentoul, David Lammy and others

The Prospect Crossword: November 2018
Prospect Team / October 12, 2018

The Prospect Puzzle: November 2018
Prospect Team / October 12, 2018

Hannah Berry's cartoon: a cleansing shower
Hannah Berry / October 11, 2018

Stephen Collins's cartoon: Brexit technology
Stephen Collins / October 11, 2018

Arts & Books

Arguing for India: what Gandhi's ideas mean today
Yasmin Khan / October 22, 2018
Gandhi's ideas might seem eccentric, but they helped liberate a nation-and have much to...
Sarah Koenig (Credit: Sandy Honig)
The return of Serial and the Museum of Lost Objects-best podcasts in November 2018
Charlotte Runcie / October 17, 2018
Plus Hidden Brain on NPR

The pity of war
Lara Feigel / October 17, 2018
The life of one paratrooper shows how we learned to see soldiers as ordinary people...
Louis Theroux in Altered States
Louis Theroux and the mystery of Orson Welles-the best TV in November 2018
Lucinda Smyth / October 17, 2018
Plus Julia Roberts in Amazon Prime Video Series Homecoming
Not what it used to be: The French House in Soho
Drinking with Francis Bacon-Soho's disreputable 1980s
Ian Irvine / October 17, 2018
Drink is the organising principle of this entertaining memoir
Alan Rusbridger on his way to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into press standards
Alan Rusbridger's frank and funny account of his time at The Guardian
John Keenan / October 17, 2018
The former editor tells of his dealings with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden

Jonathan Coe's Middle England has a Brexit blind spot
Ian Sansom / October 17, 2018
An ambitious novel, Middle England is let down by its treatment of Brexit, says Ian Sansom
Anna Burns wins the £50,000 Man Booker Prize
Milkman by Anna Burns-the Man Booker winner is a powerful evocation of trauma
Catherine Humble / October 17, 2018
The novel, set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, sets the reader on edge

The Rake's Progress and Britten's War Requiem-the best classical and opera in November 2018
Alexandra Coghlan / October 17, 2018
Plus Latvian violinist Baibe Skride in Belfast
Signs of failure
Why we're losing our faith in economic growth
Richard McNeill Douglas / October 17, 2018
But we could develop a renewed humanism
A drawing by Egon Schiele
An Assyrian king and erotic drawings-the best art and exhibitions in November 2018
Emma Crichton-Miller / October 17, 2018
Plus Norman Ackroyd at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Viola Davis in Widows
Mike Leigh's Peterloo and Steve McQueen's Widows-the best films in November 2018
Wendy Ide / October 16, 2018
Plus the wryly comic Japanese film Shoplifters
Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons gets a theatrical makeover
Don Quixote and Laura Wade's take on Jane Austen - the best theatre in November 2018
Michael Coveney / October 16, 2018
Plus Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change
John Kerry had a mixed record as Secretary of State
When did John Kerry become so wooden?
Idrees Ahmad / October 16, 2018
It is tragic that when it matters, Lieutenant Kerry's voice always seems to be usurped...

Does DNA really define destiny?
Philip Ball / October 15, 2018
Robert Plomin's Blueprint argues "correctly" that genes have a profound effect on human...
Vikings Heading for Land by Frank Dicksee 1873 Source: Wkimedia commons
Europe's messy violent past - and confused present
Zoe Apostolides / October 15, 2018
Simon Jenkins's new history of Europe is peppered with counter-intuitive takes

Life

The time a second referendum saved thousands of lives
Charlotte Higgins / October 18, 2018
The Athenian electorate voted to kill all the men in Mytilene. Then they had a second...

The way we were: the supernatural and the uncanny
Ian Irvine / October 17, 2018
Extracts from memoirs and diaries

The politics of American sport
Benjamin Markovits / October 16, 2018
What the conservatism of American football and the liberalism of basketball says about...

Don't wish away the winter - she won't be here for long
Cal Flyn / October 16, 2018
The lengthening nights are a casket of wonders, if one only makes an effort to observe...

I used to be addicted to cigarettes - now I'm addicted to my phone
Cathy Rentzenbrink / October 15, 2018
There are fewer smokers about these days, but many people have their phone in their hand...

From Central Perk to the Bloomsbury Group: in praise of the families we choose for ourselves
Hephzibah Anderson / October 12, 2018
The phrase may be a cliche, but it's popular for a reason. You can't choose your...

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