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In an era of anxiety and rising authoritarianism, “literature is the antidote to apathy, because it helps us to care,” says Elif Shafak prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…

“A positive takeaway from the current rash of elections is that democracy isn’t dead yet, even in places where it has been under massive assault from a combination of populists, overweening plutocrats, authoritarians and warmongers”, writes Andrew Adonis prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…

The manosphere. AI. Inequality. In these areas, entrepreneurs of disconnection leverage our learned helplessness, which isolates us from one another, to gain an advantage.
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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, we examine today’s UK budget, the US midterms, and the elections in Israel, Brazil and Serbia. It’s elections galore! prospectmagazine.substack.co…

“Throbbing Gristle’s music retains its power because concept and sound ran in perfect alignment, as the group explored sounds that are usually hidden away, while everyone else pursued rigid definitions of what ‘music’ must be”, writes Philip Clark

In 1988, aged 13, Terence Tao became the youngest ever person to win the gold International Mathematical Olympiad, a record that still stands. Graeme Green interviews him prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…

Trump has been an accelerant, sometimes a one-man demolition crew, for anti-establishment in the US. But he did not create the deeper crisis of the country’s political life.
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In the wake of American hegemony, there will be heightened competition, involving the great powers in more frequent bouts of war and conquest, writes Rana Dasgupta: prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…

🎧: @jessphillips, Labour MP and former minister for violence against women and girls, joins Prospect’s new podcast Tell Me Why. She speaks to @paperdispatch and Imaan about how the rise of the internet has changed gendered violence: prospectmagazine.co.uk/podca…

And so too is Hammer horror. Under changed leadership, the studio is releasing new films—and restoring old classics prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

Terence Tao explains how artificial intelligence could change mathematics prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…