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PROSPECT MAGAZINE —— APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘This Guilded Age’ – America has entered a new Gilded Age, in which a few individuals have immense wealth and apparently unaccountable power. David Aaronovitch warns us of the potential consequences of their carelessness

The new Gilded Age

The world is once again run by men with immense wealth. We should be frightened of their unaccountable power

The Modi cinematic universe

Imaan Irfan

To Arcadia or Transylvania? Theatre’s fork in the road

Kate Maltby

Epstein and the bodies in the pool

Could this idea save the Democrats?

Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Is the party over?’ In his first issue as editor, Philip Collins traces the collapse of traditional British political parties—and what happens next. Jen Stout examines what makes a Ukrainian traitor. Plus: behind the scenes of Ralph Fiennes’ operatic debut

How culture wars hurt the economy

Ben Ansell

What makes a traitor?

Jen Stout

Feminists against progress

James Bloodworth

From the heart: Ralph Fiennes and the making of ‘Eugene Onegin’

Fiammetta Rocco

The unknowable Vermeer

Christopher Bray

What would you give up for happiness?

Imogen West-Knights

Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Palantir Infiltrated Britain’ – The government gave Peter Thiel’s firm control over our data. Wil it ever let go?

How Palantir infiltrated the state

At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

The politics of the potty

Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation

China and the risks of renewables

Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Daron Acemoglu reveals what tech bros won’t say about AI, while Peter Hoskin explains how gaming made the future. Plus, Neil Kinnock on Labour’s “paralytic caution”, Alona Ferber tours settler Jerusalem & Atul Dev on US universities’ capitulation to Trump…

AI’s biggest secret: we can shape it

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world. Tech bros want it to subjugate us—but it doesn’t have to be that way

When students protested, Columbia capitulated

Atul Dev

The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA

Alona Ferber

The strange death of the Rejoin campaign