“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky—rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul—is having a moment. The American “new right” has enlisted the Russian author in the debate over “cancel culture”; and, ...

Politically, are you a bit down these days? Feeling that last year’s election result has turned sour? That glad, confident morning is a distant memory? That Britain these days is in as big a mess as ...

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 ...

I was on a beach when the latest global plastics treaty came and went in ignominy. At a remote spot on the South American Pacific coast, where all supplies and materials must come by small boat, and ...

Keir Starmer and other world leaders have committed to recognising the State of Palestine at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which started yesterday in New York. With Israeli forces ...

As Labour tanks in the polls, left and right-wing populists are on the rise. This week, Ellen and Alona and are joined by Prospect’s political columnist Ben Ansell, whose cover essay in this month’s ...

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 ...

It is 6.30pm on a weekday evening in Dunkirk. I am standing by the side of a road with a queue of women and children in front of me. Men stand on the periphery; I am aware of their presence. They want ...

“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 ...

Media Confidential is back for Season 3! Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber take a dive into the world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? This week, ...

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 ...