April 2025
Randall Kennedy writes of America’s self-destruction, Michael Ignatieff predicts a new world order and voices from illiberal states reflect on resisting autocrats. Plus, we examine British defence and the future of the media.
Past issues
Photography by Sara Morris
United States
Trump may bring about America’s destruction
Donald Trump and his cronies are smashing up democratic norms, government institutions and the postwar international order. There are no signs yet that anyone will stop them
Randall Kennedy
Editor’s Picks
As America retreats, Europe must step up
Michael Ignatieff
Illustration by Adam Howling
AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself
David Caswell & Mary Fitzgerald
HMS Queen Elizabeth Returns to Portsmouth after repairs in Rosyth, Scotland which cause her to miss Steadfast Defender 2024. Photo by Mark Dillen / Alamy Stock Photo
Britain’s aircraft carriers: a national embarrassment?
Stuart McGurk
Illustration by Romy Blümel
Han Kang versus the Korean establishment
Fiammetta Rocco
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
My therapist is retiring—how am I supposed to cope?
Sarah Collins
Image: Adam Lawrence / UKTV
Katherine Ryan: I’m the antithesis of Margaret Thatcher
Graeme Green
People
Image: Adam Lawrence / UKTV
Katherine Ryan: I’m the antithesis of Margaret Thatcher
Graeme Green
Koons and PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Jeff Koons: My art isn’t about making money
Rebecca Swirsky
Illustration: John Watson
Meet the MP with the smallest majority
Alona Ferber
Image: Samir Hussein via Getty Images
Waad al-Kateab: the filmmaker fighting for a free Syria
Serra Yedikardes
Image: geogphotos / Alamy Stock Photo
Can Britain’s Communist party return to relevance?
Jake Shepherd
Columns
As America retreats, Europe must step up
Michael Ignatieff
Illustration: Vincent Kilbride
Musk isn’t disrupting the government. He’s breaking it
Ethan Zuckerman
Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill passed its second reading in November. Image: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo
Why death is not always the greatest harm
Sasha Mudd
Illustration by Andy Smith
The rise of the broligarchy
Sarah Ogilvie
Lord Glasman at the Labour conference in Liverpool in 2011. Contributor: Willows Photos UK / Alamy Stock Photo
Maurice Glasman and the origins of Blue Labour
Philip Collins
Illustration by Bill McConkey.
Kemi Badenoch’s alt-right trap
Sam Freedman
Rupa Huq’s diary: Bangladesh’s revolution, and why I voted against assisted dying
Rupa Huq
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: April 2025
Letters: April 2025
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The cringe pipe
Stephen Collins
The Generalist: April 2025
Chris Tilbury
Illustration by Michael Rea
Ash Sarkar: ‘The entire establishment colluded to take Corbyn’s head off’
Prospect Team
Features
Photography by Sara Morris
Trump may bring about America’s destruction
Randall Kennedy
Illustration by Rex/Shutterstock/Prospect
How to resist autocracy
Prospect
HMS Queen Elizabeth Returns to Portsmouth after repairs in Rosyth, Scotland which cause her to miss Steadfast Defender 2024. Photo by Mark Dillen / Alamy Stock Photo
Britain’s aircraft carriers: a national embarrassment?
Stuart McGurk
Illustration by Adam Howling
AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself
David Caswell & Mary Fitzgerald
Illustration by Adam Howling
Irrelevant and unloved: how the press lost its touch
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Illustration by Two Associates
Britain needs to follow the Australian Way
Andrew Low
Culture
Illustration by Romy Blümel
Han Kang versus the Korean establishment
Fiammetta Rocco
The mathematicians’ mathematician: Emmy Noether helped Albert Einstein develop his grand theories. Image: Science History Images / Alamy
A Noether genius
Marcus Chown
WH Auden as a young man. Image: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy
England’s national poet?
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Image: Irish Eye / Alamy
Michael Longley, our Confucian sage
Robert Chandler
Books in brief: what to read this March
“Portrait of George Humphrey II” (1811) by James Gillray. Image: British Museum
The black hole
Robert Chandler
Does the performer have more in common with the president than it first appears? Image: Guy Bell / Alamy
Trump, meet Ben Folds
Laura Barton
Shakespeare in San Andreas. Image: Attitude Films
What a piece of work
Peter Hoskin
William Wordsworth, shaken by global-historical events. Image: Science History Images / Alamy
Classical notes: History and histrionics
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Welcome to my second life
Vitali Vitaliev
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
My best clients are married men
Tilly Lawless
I loved dancing barefoot around a cauldron with my neighbours
Kiran Sidhu
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
More women leaders would solve our autocracy problem
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
My therapist is retiring—how am I supposed to cope?
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
I must be the only person in the world trying to spend more time on TikTok
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
All Christians doubt, but scandals are testing my faith in the Church
Alice Goodman
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