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Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? - Prospect
In her concise and authoritative new book, Clare Carlisle seeks to rescue Spinoza from those who peddle misconceptions—on all sides. A professor of philosophy at King’s College London and author of a recent biography of Søren Kierkegaard, Carlisle also edited George Eliot’s translation of the Ethics last year. She argues that Spinoza was a …
The madness of his method: behind the singular talent of
After graduating in 1979, his breakthrough film role came in Stephen Frears’s My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), playing gay punk Johnny, the lover and business partner of a young man of Pakistani heritage. Day-Lewis arrived at the audition equipped with bleached hair—he was playing an albino Count Dracula in a fringe production on stage at …
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
Jul 14, 2020 · A s Prospect revisits the task of identifying the leading minds of the moment, in the intellectual hit parade which we have produced in varying formats since 2004, that test of immediate and real-world relevance looms large. A s we compiled our longlist—drawing on the advice of distinguished experts in various fields who have written for us over the years—and then whittled it down towards ...
About us - Prospect
Prospect was launched in 1995 by David Goodhart, an ex-FT journalist who became the magazine’s first editor, Derek Coombs, a former Conservative MP who would become its founding chairman, and Charles Seaford, Prospect’s first publisher.Since then the magazine has grown and evolved—but the words of its first editorial still capture its essence: “Standing back from the scrum, Prospect ...
The surprising history of “Rule, Britannia!” and Last ... - Prospect
Aug 26, 2020 · The prime minister has called the decision to remove the lyrics from renditions of “Rule, Britannia!” and “Land of Hope and Glory” at Last Night of the Proms “wet” and a “cringing embarrassment.”
Thoroughly modern Mike - Prospect
For over a decade novelists have been fretting about the impact of our buzzing, connected, confusing modern world on their craft. The writer Walter Kirn pinpointed this anxiety in a 2006 article for Slate: “In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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A short history of the short story - Prospect
The short story emerged in a blitzkrieg of 19th-century magazine publishing, reached its apotheosis with Chekhov, and became one of the great 20th-century art forms. William Boyd reveals his taxonomy of the short story, and assesses the state of the British form
How Metro became the most read paper in Britain - Prospect
Aug 20, 2018 · Soon after moving into Downing Street, Theresa May hosted a private dinner for the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre.Not long after, the then-foreign secretary Boris Johnson was snapped, in shorts, running alongside the editor of the Sun, Tony Gallagher.If asked to think of a successful tabloid editor, most people would think of a man (yes, probably still a man) like one of these ...