May 2025
Should Europe break free from the US? Nathalie Tocci and John Bolton present their arguments. Peter Geoghegan reveals Reform’s backers and Emma Haslett reports on Maga’s IVF obsession. Plus, our critics cover Spotify, Andrea Dworkin & Lennon and McCartney
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Europe
Europe’s wake-up call on defence
For too long, Europeans ignored Russia’s growing threat and the United States’ waning interest in their security
Nathalie Tocci
Editor’s Picks
European leaders gathered with allies such as Canada at a summit to discuss Ukraine on 2nd March 2025. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Europe could blow the west apart
John Bolton
Illustration by Alamy / Shutterstock / Prospect
Who funds Reform?
Peter Geoghegan
Illustration by Ben Hickey
Elon Musk’s IVF obsession
Emma Haslett
Illustration by Stephen Collins
Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders
Matthew d’Ancona
Illustration by David McAllister
If you care about music, delete Spotify
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Image: Michael Rea
Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears
Prospect Team
People
Image: Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan: The biggest victims of cancel culture are pro-Palestinian
Ben Clark
Image: Rula Hardal
Israel-Palestine: How to make two states work
Alona Ferber
Image: Conor O’Leary
Richard Osman: ‘Maybe I’ll do a terribly ambitious and disappointing literary novel’
Graeme Green
Image: Linda Nylind/Guardian/eyevine
Jon Cruddas on ‘doing God’ in politics
Tom Clark
Illustration by John Watson
A new model for workplace democracy—the ‘bicameral corporation’
Olly Haynes
Columns
European leaders gathered with allies such as Canada at a summit to discuss Ukraine on 2nd March 2025. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Europe could blow the west apart
John Bolton
Illustration by Bill McConkey
Labour promises security—just not for everyone
Sam Freedman
Illustration: Vincent Kilbride
The AI race shows no country can go it alone
Ethan Zuckerman
Canada’s plot against America
Margaret MacMillan
Illustration for Andy Smith
Chronically single? Sologamy could be the answer
Sarah Ogilvie
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What Nietzsche knows about Donald Trump
Sasha Mudd
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: May 2025
Letters: May 2025
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: How to win people back from Nigel Farage
Stephen Collins
Image: Michael Rea
Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears
Prospect Team
Features
Illustration by Justin Metz
Europe’s wake-up call on defence
Nathalie Tocci
Illustration by Alamy / Shutterstock / Prospect
Who funds Reform?
Peter Geoghegan
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
How universities were sent over the edge
Ros Taylor
A yellow and green dress: Abdulsalam recalled the colours his mother wore as they escaped the Janjaweed. Credit: ©Wiener Holocaust Library Collections/Courtesy of Waging Peace
The drawings that captured Sudan’s genocide
Imaan Irfan
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Who wants to be archbishop of Canterbury?
Andrew Graystone
Illustration by Ben Hickey
Elon Musk’s IVF obsession
Emma Haslett
On the day after the 2016 US election, a protester outside the US embassy in London brandished a placard showing Trump as Hitler. Many others have spotted subtle similarities since. Credit: Matthew Chattle / Alamy
Is Trump’s America a new reich?
Richard J Evans
Culture
Composite by David McAllister / Prospect. Images: Bill Waterson, ARCHIVIO GBB, Pictorial Press Ltd & Dimitris K via Alamy
What turned John and Paul into Lennon & McCartney
Tom Clark
Illustration by David McAllister
If you care about music, delete Spotify
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Andrea Dworkin in London in the 1980s. Image: Stephen Parker / Alamy
The perfectly timed return of Andrea Dworkin
Heather Brooke
Framing the mind: “Diagram of Human Thought and the Four Senses” (circa 1650) by Robert Fludd
“Ideologies injure our brains and bodies”—an interview with Leor Zmigrod
Peter Hoskin
Books in brief: what to read this April
Illustration by Stephen Collins
Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders
Matthew d’Ancona
The messiah as a man, as played by Jonathan Roumie. © Courtesy The Chosen / Mike Kubeisy
The Chosen and the rise of religious telly
Imogen West-Knights
Representing their country—or are they? James Graham’s England assemble. Image: Marc Brenner
Dear England, go away
Kate Maltby
Classical notes: A glimmer of glamour
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicholl
Forget assisted dying, I’m fed up with ‘insisted dying’ 
Vitali Vitaliev
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
The quiet wisdom of the nail technician
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
I watch every sunrise and sunset on the farm
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Why I pray for Putin
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
How can I dream of a future on a burning planet? 
Alice Garnett
I fought for my local church to stay open—even though I’m an atheist 
Kiran Sidhu
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: In defence of Anora
Tilly Lawless
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