The World’s Top Thinkers 2024: ideas for a world on the brink
Dec 6, 2023 · On the theme of freedom, our thinkers put forward contentious ideas: that the history of the British Empire is “morally mixed”; that the greatest threat from cancel culture isn’t to freedom of speech; that the left has much in common with the reactionary right; that liberals have paved the right’s way to power; and that homophobia in ...
Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? - Prospect
In her concise and authoritative new book, Clare Carlisle seeks to rescue Spinoza from those who peddle misconceptions—on all sides. A professor of philosophy at King’s College London and author of a recent biography of Søren Kierkegaard, Carlisle also edited George Eliot’s translation of the Ethics last year. She argues that Spinoza was a …
Prospect Magazine - Britain's leading monthly current ...
Prospect offers independent, balanced analysis and long-form journalism taking readers to the heart of the biggest stories, ideas and issues of our time.
Everything you wanted to know about fourth wave feminism ...
By Jessica Abrahams. August 14, 2017. On 22nd January, the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, millions of women marched across dozens of countries to demand equal rights. The women’s march was organised in reaction to the hyper-masculinity of Trump’s election campaign, and his attitude towards women throughout—from his ...
The surprising history of “Rule, Britannia!” and Last ... - Prospect
Aug 26, 2020 · The chance to modernise the proceedings came only when Sargent retired and was replaced by Colin Davies. For the 1969 celebrations, the Controller of the Proms, William Glock, removed both “Land of Hope and Glory” and “Rule, Britannia!”—but the outrage led to both being reinstated. As the BBC commentator observed, the “Bring Back ...
When Britain becomes “majority minority” - Prospect
On those assumptions the “white British” population would decline to 45m (59 per cent of the total) by 2051, the “other white” would increase to 7m (10 per cent) and the non-white populations to 24m (31 per cent). Were the assumptions to hold, the “white British” population of Britain would become the minority after about 2066.
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
Jul 14, 2020 · The immediate relevance of some of our thinkers to the Covid-19 era speaks for itself: vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert and science writer Ed Yong being prime examples. Just as interesting, however, are those who work in fields a mile away from medicine, but who have nonetheless acquired a new salience in the dark and peculiar circumstances of 2020.
The madness of his method: behind the singular talent of
February 18, 2018. Most film stars tipped to collect a fourth best actor Oscar—their sixth Academy Award nomination overall—would barely be out of the public eye. But Daniel Day-Lewis has a talent for disappearing. When taking on a role, he hunkers down for months or even years of preparation. Between films he steps away entirely, provoking ...
Mr Morality: the astonishing mind of Derek Parfit - Prospect
Jun 14, 2023 · Parfit once watched a documentary about the Nazi invasion of France in which Hitler danced a little jig after his army’s triumph. The philosopher said, without irony, “At least something good came out of the German victory.”. The logic is simple: a world with more happiness is always better than a world with less.
Wes Streeting: The man who would be Keir - Prospect
Jul 19, 2023 · The model for the first genre is Churchill, who had rather a lot of ground to cover. We await Liz Truss’s contribution with bated breath. The second genre is more common in America than Britain and is typified by Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, with its fusion of the political and the personal.Keir Starmer was planning to write one of these but dropped the idea earlier this year, much ...