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 ...

Prospect has a history of producing in-depth policy analysis on topics ranging from climate change to skills, housing to the ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by journalist Karen Hao, who reveals how she was banned from returning to OpenAI after writing a profile of the company In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan ...

I’m sitting at my desk looking at Procter and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, and thinking of our ...

When the eighth and supposedly last Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is released this week, there will be little discussion of its writer-director Christopher McQuarrie or its talented ...

Politics might be polarised but there is one thing that everyone can agree on: the country is in a mess. Our economy is stuck. Our public services are overwhelmed. Public trust in politics is shot.

One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple capsule that’s just large enough to fit a human ...

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

Do you remember Julian Assange’s catchphrase, “Courage is contagious?” I think he may have borrowed it from the old Bible basher Rev Billy Graham, but no matter: it had a catchy ring about it. Sadly, ...

My apprentice arrived at the end of August: a young man of twenty-five, dragging a box of books and a briefcase with two changes of clothes. I had asked for a woman, but I had asked for tinned peaches ...

Once there was a concerted attempt to use the United States constitution to prevent a president from seeking re-election. It may well be that the president would get popular support, it was contended, ...