SEPTEMBER 2008

DEMOCRACY,AFRICA-STYLE Richard Dowden Prospec

FLIRTING WITH STALIN How Russia’s intelligentsia fluffed its shot at freedom By Arkady Ostrovsky

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

THE ART OF THE MATADOR Alexander Fiske-Harrison

THE LOUSY ECONOMICS OF NUCLEAR POWER Tom Burke

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In this issue:

WILL HUTTON The next financial catastrophe

OLIVER AUGUST on the widow who wooed Kim Jong-il

EDWARD SKIDELSKY What happened to goodness?

JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE Howard Jacobson’s erotic genius

TIM HARFORD VS PETE LUNN Is behavioural economics such a big deal?

SALLY LAIRD on the happy Danes

PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON The fading allure of a Harvard MBA

GWYNETH LEWIS on the feminisation ofscience writing

FICTION by Nam Le

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