DECEMBER 2024 PROSPECT
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REGULARS & COLUMNS
THE CULTURE
PODCASTS
The grid Contributors People
Ghassan Abu Sitta, Tanni Grey-
Thompson, Daniel Rivacoba, Raphaël Arnault, Anna Holland Labour’s philosophical deficit
Philip Collins The Middle East’s endless wars
Louis Fishman Fiscal rules? What fiscal rules?
Sam Freedman The Amish approach to AI
Ethan Zuckerman € Diary
Carys Afoko Letters plus In fact The joy of lex: Lame duck
Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large:
The power of political lies Sasha Mudd ‹Œ Lives Œ Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s
Brain Teaser ŒŒ Brief encounter
Sue Prideaux
Œ The punch-up
This is the struggle at the heart of British feminism Alona Ferber A poet of prose
TS Eliot’s other body of work Jeremy Noel-Tod The future
is black and white Chess’s technological turn Daniel Rey ‹ Speaking for NYC
A tribute to the freakiest days of the Village Voice Philip Clark ‹ Books in brief ‹ Art: The White Pube
visit the White Cube David McAllister ‹ TV: The enduring
hopelessness of ‘Threads’ Imogen West-Knights ‹ Film: The end
of the flop Sukhdev Sandhu ‹‹ Stage: Sophocles’s
daughters Kate Maltby
Cover photograph by Emily Edwards, post-production by the Retouching Shed. Images via Shutterstock
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