This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen and Alona. Slavoj discusses fatherhood and Netflix’s Adolescence, as awareness grows around young male ...

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

Oh, to be a galanthophile. To spend weeks, months and years looking at catalogues, picking out varieties and planting thousands upon thousands of bulbs, all for those few short weeks—from late January ...

Not many filmmakers release music. David Lynch did. Sally Potter does. Here’s what the sounds reveal about the sights Then there’s Sally Potter. She has long been one of this country’s most restless ...

Every day of Donald Trump’s second term, it feels as though we have entered a dystopia. Nationalism pervades even geological names; old allies are humiliated in public; economic policy has been ...

“Every time I finish a book, I think ‘That’s it—you’re out of ideas. You’ll have to get a real job now,’” says the American author Harlan Coben. “I’m like a boxer who finished the last round of a ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s document is the International Emergency ...

It is hard to believe now that David Cameron fought and won the 2010 general election on a slogan of “Vote Blue, Go Green”. When it comes to climate change, the Conservatives have been on a journey.

It is stark staring obvious what Britain should do in response to Donald Trump’s tariff madness and wider economic sabotage. Get back into the European Union as fast as possible. Then join the ...

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It is not only Canadians who should count themselves fortunate that, through domestic political happenstance, Mark Carney became prime minister of Canada at exactly ...

The startling Netflix hit Adolescence reminded me of “Liam”, a student I met while doing research for the book Gen Z, Explained. At the age of 11 Liam had begun hanging out with alt-right subcultures ...

In Dublin—where Spanish students, British stag dos and American genealogists look for a good time—a statue just off the main thoroughfare has developed a groping problem. Next month, a protection ...