Sasha Mudd is Prospect’s philosopher-at-large. She is an associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and visiting professor at the University of Southampton ...

France is about to get its fifth prime minister in two years, a week after Britain’s fourth prime minister in three years was forced into an emergency cabinet reshuffle only 14 months since taking ...

“I don’t hate it anymore,” says Marina Warner, as her husband, the mathematician Graeme Segal, hands me a cup of coffee in their north London home, hardbacks and paperbacks piled all around. “I nearly ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a naive belief that the World Wide Web would improve the standard of public discourse. In the area of law, for example, the notion was that direct and free ...

As I’ve got older, most of my straight and lesbian friends have dropped out of the party scene. It’s clear that many were using partying as a means to an end—as a launching pad for a relationship, ...

Most festival directors would love to have Herr Nachbauer’s problems. For 50 years, he has presided over a glorious annual celebration of chamber music and song. The greatest musicians in the world ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

In my early twenties, I was deeply influenced by Ezra Pound’s poetry and criticism. Now, 50 years later, I still find most of his judgements about poetry and art as impeccable as his political ...

“The only direction Britney gave me was that she wanted to die in the video,” said fashion photographer David LaChapelle of the instructions he received for his video of her 2003 single “Everytime”.

As the Second World War beckoned in 1939, the director of London’s National Gallery, Sir Kenneth Clark, came up with a plan: to commission a handful of carefully chosen artists to document life on the ...

It is, it transpires, the Great Unmentionable. Parliamentarians will discuss war and peace as easily as urban chalk streams, endangered bats, driven grouse shooting or neon signage. But there’s one ...

“What makes the unbearable bearable is each other.” Writer and palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke used that phrase to describe what she learnt from one family’s decision to give the heart of their ...