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 ...

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 ...

About halfway through our meeting on a grey day in Oxford, Kamel Daoud apologises. He looks smart, but a burst of flights, signings, press engagements, and back-and-forth with translators, since ...

If the debate wasn’t heated enough already, MPs can expect some intense lobbying when they return to parliament after the Easter break. The report stage and third reading of the assisted dying bill ...

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.

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 ...

It is one of the most divisive issues in the country but it may not play much of a role in Canada’s upcoming election—which tells you something about the debate. The leader of the opposition ...

Do you remember Julian Assange’s catchphrase, “Courage is contagious?” I think he may have borrowed it from the old Bible basher Rev Billy Graham, but no matter: it had a catchy ring about it. Sadly, ...

When he first joined the Ukraine army in 2015, Taras Danilyuk was armed only with a hunting rifle and a shared machine gun. His first battle, in the Donbas, lasted for five days and he saw death at ...

Alona Ferber, senior editor: Philippe, you’re heading to Chile tomorrow where your book [38 Londres Street] has already caused a bit of a stir. Why did you want to write this book? Philippe Sands: ...