June 2018 issue
What would a Chinese world order look like? Isabel Hilton, Yuan Ren and more discuss. Plus: Corbyn's foreign policy, and the real lives of the Cambridge Five
Past issues
Essays
Peter Florence on the historical figure he'd most like to invite to Hay
Prospect Team
What if your money had a mind of its own?
Eric Lonergan
The world according to Corbyn
Steve Bloomfield
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, RUSSIA - MAY 13, 2018: A view of Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, a venue of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Mikhail Solunin/TASS
They think it's all over: could 2018 spell the beginning of the end for the World Cup?
Jonathan Liew
"If you want to prosper, you must control the population", a Chinese Cultural Revolution poster. Photo: by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images
Young, patriotic and conservative: understanding China's millennials
Yuan Ren
The Sydney Opera House covered in a Chinese flag. Photo: Prospect Composite
Want to understand China's ambitions for Britain? Look to Australia
Kerry Brown
The thinkers who shaped China's past—and those who will shape its future. Illustration: Nick Taylor
You've heard of Confucius—but what about the minds shaping China's future?
Rana Mitter
When China rules the world
Isabel Hilton
Illustration by Tim McDonagh © Sarah pinsker
The soothsayer’s tale: how Margaret Atwood became the unofficial writer of the anti-Trump resistance
Andrew Dickson
Regulars
The Great Wall of China is a symbol of the country's past power. But what about the future? Photo: Flickr/matt512
Editorial: All points east
Tom Clark
The Prospect Puzzle: June 2018
Prospect Team
James Joyce's Ulysses. Photo: John Rylands Library, Manchester
Artistic beginnings and early receptions—from Ulysses to Tracey Emin
Ian Irvine
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Twitter and the First Amendment
Stephen Collins
The Prospect Crossword: June 2018
Prospect Team
Opinions
©ALEXANDROS MICHAILIDIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
One year on, France is conflicted about Macron
Lucy Wadham
How can we put technology to the best possible use?
Are we making the best of what technology we have?
Jay Elwes
The IMF—due a move to Beijing soon. Photo: IMF (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
The coming Renminbi revolution
Kishore Mahbubani
The global population is becoming increasingly urbanised—what do city-dwellers need, and how can politics help?
When it comes to urban development, the UK is missing out
Seema Malhotra
New technology is going to transform our urban environment and pose some serious challenges
What can cities do for us?
Iain Stewart
Photo: Jerome Lynch/Zuma Press/PA Images
Trump’s chaotic charge through the geopolitical china shop is not all bad news
Simon Jenkins
How a new economics syllabus is preparing students for the real-world economy
Wendy Carlin
Think Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare? You might just be a snob
Jonathan Healey
Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire/PA Images
Government fecklessness is reaching new heights over the Irish border
David Hannay
Arts & Books
Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison (restored by Adam Cuerden) Photo: Wikimedia Commons
When violence echoes down the ages
Jane Shilling
Tokyo at night
A foreigner's adventures in 1970s Japan
Emily Finch
Scapegoat: Medea prepares to kill her children in Delacroix's 1838 painting.
The millennial motherhood trap
Stephanie Boland
Women on the march in the US
Meg Wolitzer's incisive and very funny new novel on modern feminism
Anthony Cummins
Monuments to assasinated Colombian politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán © Flickr
How one man's killing changed a nation
Daniel Hahn
What's inside the mind of Putin? Photo: Prospect composite
"Like a child who keeps needling his big brother": inside the mind of Vladimir Putin
Oliver Bullough
Alive or dead? Schrödinger's cat is a paradox that explains quantum physics
The secrets of quantum physics
Anjana Ahuja
Mark Zuckerberg: is Facebook a threat to democracy? © Brian Solis
Why Mark Zuckerberg is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump
Sameer Rahim
The many (marketable) faces of Frida Kahlo
Miranda France
The Cambridge Spies hoodwinked the Establishment by hiding in plain sight. Photo: © GETTY IMAGES
Messages in the bottle: inside the louche, liqueured-up world of the Cambridge Spies
Ferdinand Mount
Think Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare? You might just be a snob
Jonathan Healey
Society and Culture
The investment industry ignored sustainability and fell out of step with the public
The art of sustainable investing
Andy Davis
When it comes to wine, some age well, and some don't
Want to know the best time to drink a bottle of fine wine? Give it a sniff
Barry Smith
At 92, she can still remember almost every meal she has eaten
Meet New York's greatest taste-maker
Wendell Steavenson
"I put this to my patient in the next session. He stared at me and said; 'That makes sense.'”
It was a joke about Ottolenghi that finally showed me a way forward with my patient
Anna Blundy
What makes good writing good? It's all in the ear
Sam Leith
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