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For our cover story, @milleridriss charts the global surge in misogynistic attitudes and behaviour, galvanised by populist politicians and social media grifters: prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
A growing number of adoptees now critique the “adoption industry”. Some are asking whether adoption should continue at all
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Budget day was a big one for new chancellor John Healey. Luckily satirist @mrhenrymorris was behind the scenes and captured the mood... 🧵
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“A chink seems to have opened in Pawlikowski’s heart. Even weak, self-interested artists are human beings.” prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
In 2017, Merriam-Webster’s word of the year was “feminism”. So what went wrong?
Alona Ferber on Natasha Walter’s FEMINISM FOR A WORLD ON FIRE—a book that understands the horrors of our time, but not the path beyond them:
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“Four-fifths of Brits value quiet time. Nearly two-thirds crave a quieter home. But it seems to be getting harder to live in one,” writes Ioan Marc Jones
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“No matter what mayhem is happening in the Scottish castle on the screen, I can fall asleep”. Sheila Hancock on nodding off in front of the Traitors
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But Congress is having none of this nonsense, writes David Allen Green prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
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“Stay alarmed, be hysterical if you need to, and know that it’s very easy to lose your country.”
Sukhdev Sandhu on Julia Loktev’s MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II – EXILE:
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“I did—I promise—write this column myself without any assistance from AI.”
But could a chatbot have written it instead? Would you notice? Would you care?
Ian Bostridge’s latest Classical Notes:
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A French prize wants to celebrate machine-made novels. That sends exactly the wrong message, writes Katie Dancey-Downs
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As the game that captured my adolescence returns in all its nostalgic glory, I find myself forced to reckon with how much the real world has changed, writes Max Moser
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Seven in 10 American gun owners say they own one for protection. Hunters are now in the minority.
@J_Bloodworth reviews new books by Malcolm Gladwell and Harel Shapira on America’s reckoning with its own violence:
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In 1971, Altheia Jones-LeCointe became one of the Mangrove Nine, a group of activists put on trial after protesting police harrassment. She tells her story to Rebecca Swirsky prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…
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Rhoda Feng on THE HILL
Philip Clark on VAIM HOTEL
Kira Sutton on THE BEST KIND OF AMERICAN
Aida Amoako on A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN 21 PAINTINGS
Peter Hoskin on THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ANTARCTICA
This month’s Books in Brief:
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A century after legal adoption began here, adoptees are asking: at what cost? My new Prospect longread examines forced separations, racial matching, health inequalities and why many adoptees believe the system fails to hear them prospectmagazine.co.uk/socie…
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It was fun to write about two new books on utopias/utopianism (and one on Thomas More) for @prospect_uk.
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Thomas More invented a genre with UTOPIA in 1516. Five centuries on, we’re still preoccupied with ideal societies—but have we lost his sense of fun?
Rhodri Lewis on three new books about utopias:
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