Prospect Magazine —— May 2025 Preview

PROSPECT MAGAZINE (April 2, 202): The latest issue features Should Europe break free from the US? Nathalie Tocci and John Bolton present their arguments. Peter Geoghegan reveals Reform’s backers and Emma Haslett reports on Maga’s IVF obsession. Plus, our critics cover Spotify, Andrea Dworkin & Lennon and McCartney

Europe’s wake-up call on defence

For too long, Europeans ignored Russia’s growing threat and the United States’ waning interest in their security

Europe could blow the west apart

John Bolton

Who funds Reform?

Peter Geoghegan

Elon Musk’s IVF obsession

Emma Haslett

Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders

Matthew d’Ancona

If you care about music, delete Spotify

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears

Prospect Team

The London Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview

THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue takes the city as its muse:

Joshua Mehigan finds poetic inspiration at a petrol station stop, on the way back from Atlantic City

Kasra Lang and Sara Ahmad explore London and its residents who are marginalised or ignored

Paul Stephenson goes to Paris and attempts to ‘exhaust a place’ à la Georges Perec

Gráinne O’Hare’s fiction takes us to Belfast, a city scarred by the effects of generational trauma

Times Literary Supplement – April 4, 2025 Preview

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Art and Lifestyle’ – On visual culture in the era of AI…

A bad business

Recalculating the economic gains of slavery By Padraic X. Scanlan

Raging bull

Rejecting the narrative of Picasso the monster to women By Lisa Hilton

Rebirth of the modern

The future of art and artists in the era of artificial intelligence By Aaron Peck

Writer, lawyer, banker, cleaner

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tale of four women – and many social ills By Houman Barekat

The New York Times – Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says

The attorney general said the decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering an insurance executive, was in keeping with an executive order by President Trump.

No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos

President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.

A Family Business Empire, and a Culture of ‘Keeping Your Mouth Shut’

The Irving family businesses dominate Saint John, New Brunswick. They are a major employer, but residents say those jobs have come with a steep cost.

A Symbol of a City’s Rapid Growth Comes Crashing Down

The collapse of the Sky Villa complex in the Myanmar city of Mandalay buried an unknown number of people amid the earthquake on Friday that killed more than 2,700.