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May 2018 issue
Time to rip up the economics textbook and start again? Howard Reed says the discipline needs rebuilding from first principles. Also: Sonia Purnell on Jacob Rees-Mogg's chance of cracking No 10; Will Self on his first acid trip
Past issues
Essays
Your right to equality is currently protected. After Brexit it won’t be
Schona Jolly
Will Self: After 100 trips, I know how drugs help us deal with the darker side of life
Will Self
How Brexit will erase your rights
Vernon Bogdanor
What Grayson Perry can teach the Bank of England
Tom Clark
Can Jacob Rees-Mogg become Britain’s 55th prime minister—and Eton’s 20th?
Sonia Purnell
Has time come for the neo-Jacobites?
David Maddox
North and South Korea: best of enemies
Jean H Lee
Back to school: top economists on what their subject needs to learn next
Prospect Team
The Prospect editorial: economics—a textbook problem
Tom Clark
What the great economic thinkers would make of 2018
Linda Yueh
Rip it up and start again: the case for a new economics
Howard Reed
The coming battle to liberalise abortion—in Britain
Sian Norris
Regulars
Speed Data: Doing God—the religious divide in politics
Tom Clark
Cheating in sport—from Emperor Nero to Donald Trump
Ian Irvine
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Captain complex
Stephen Collins
"I wonder endlessly what sort of world my grandchildren will inherit"—Henry Marsh answers Prospect's questions
Prospect Team
Is it time to delete your Facebook account?
J Ball
&
C Rentzenbrink
“Woman’s Hour for an LGBTQ+ audience"—the podcasts to listen to this month
Charlotte Runcie
"Dangerously exciting"—the best Opera on this month
Neil Norman
"As barbed as it is charming"—the best films showing this month
Francine Stock
"One of the most beautiful works in the canon"—the classical music performances to look out for this month
Alexandra Coghlan
The best theatre on this month—including "the War and Peace of the Stalinist era"
Michael Coveney
Trees are "not a subject but much more"—the best art exhibitions this month
Emma Crichton-Miller
The Prospect Crossword: May 2018
Prospect Team
Opinions
How the US mid-terms could kickstart a new era of progressive reform
Stan Greenberg
In Lima, the children of a disgraced former president battle to replace him
Catherine Elton
How Parliament can stop Brexit
Patience Wheatcroft
What Harry and Meghan’s cake tells us about east London’s hipster takeover
Dave Hill
What we can all learn from the Open University's radical roots
Charlotte Lydia Riley
Act your age: why we shouldn't be ashamed to call ourselves “middle aged” or “old”
Julian Baggini
Arts & Books
A chilling account of how the law works—and doesn't
Hashi Mohamed
The Odyssey from Circe's point of view
Edith Hall
Do ideas make people kill?
Richard English
Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music
Alexandra Coghlan
Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music
Alexandra Coghlan
When we voted 'yes' to Europe
Alex Dean
Thomas Jefferson—no American hero
Ferdinand Mount
Thomas Jefferson—no American hero
Ferdinand Mount
Perils of the free market
Fran Boait
We need social housing, not gentrified ghettos
Anna Minton
Another masterwork from Antony Beevor
Jay Elwes
Edward Lear's serious nonsense poetry
Thomas Marks
Society and Culture
The most important thing every investor needs to ask
Andy Davis
The chef who built an empire
Wendell Steavenson
What it's like to start therapy later in life
Anna Blundy
The joy of $#*@(!^?
Sam Leith