CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
ANNE APPLEBAUM is a columnist on the Evening Standard
DUNCAN CAMPBELL is crime correspondent of the Guardian and author of The Underworld
JOHN CARR is amanagement consultant
JEREMY CLARKE is a freelance writer
MATTHEW D’ANCON A is deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph and co-author with Carsten Thiede of The Jesus Papyrus
SARAH GELLNER is a freelance writer
JOHN GITTINGS is a leader writer on the Guardian and the author of Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke
PHILIP GOODHART was aConservative MP from 1957 to 1992
KIM GORDON is a specialist in Chinese media at City University, London
PHILIP GORDON is the editor of Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
CHARLES GRANT is defence editor of The Economist. His piece is based on a forthcoming pamphlet for the Centre for European Reform
PAUL JOHNSON is an historian and columnist on the Spectator and Daily Mail His essay is extracted from his latest book The Quest for God
DAVID LIPSEY is political editor of The Economist
JOHN LLOYD is a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford
NORBERT LYNTON is a former Guardian art critic and art lecturer
JOHN MADDOX is the former editor of Nature magazine
ANDREW MARR is chief political writer on the Independent and author of Ruling Brittania
PJ O’ ROURKE is the author of Age and Guile and contributing editor to the IVeekly Standard, where his review first appeared
EDWARD PEARCE is writing abook on those who nearly made it to the top in politics
JOHN PODHORETZ is deputy editor of the IVeekly Standard
ALAN RYAN is professor of politics at Princeton University
BEPPE SEVERGNINI is awriter and a columnist for II Corriere della Sera
DAVID SOSKICE is adirector of the Wissenschaftzentrum in Berlin, where he teaches a course in comparative capitalisms
GRAHAM STANTON is professor of New Testament Studies at King’s College, London and author of Gospel Truth?
PETER WAYNE is serving 13 years for robbery at Stocken prison, Leicestershire
DAVID WILLETTS is aConservative minister. His piece is based on a chapter in Blair’s Gurus, to be published next month by the Centre for Policy Studies
Prosped:
OPENINGS 4 LETTERS The past catches up with Jeremy Clarke.
6 CURIOSITIES
8 OPEN AND CLOSED JOHN GITTINGS on the social costs of market Stalinism. Can China's economic reforms find a middle way?
Issue seven April 1996
The forgotten. Page 29
ESSAYS 22 WORDS AND THINGS ANDREW MARR Lizard-eyed power still lies behind the evasions of political language, but thanks to George Orwell’s warning 50 years ago, the battle for democratic clarity is being won.
Sick dragon? Page 8
10 WELFARE’S FALLOW F IELD DAVID WILLETTS puts Frank Field’s welfare reforms under the microscope and finds them wanting.
14 ARMS HAVE LEGS CHARLES GRANT on resolving the moral dilemmas of the west’s arms industry after the Scott report.
18 DEBATE: GOSPEL TRUTHS MATTHEW D’ANCONA AND GRAHAM STANTON disagree about ancient fragments of St Matthew’s Gospel and ask how much we know of the historical Jesus.
Brothers in arms. Page 14
Attacking means testing. Page 10
29 ABSENT HISTORY ANNE APPLEBAUM What if we had no memory of the Holocaust? In post-communist Europe, the absence of history is weighing heavily on the present.
34 PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE PAUL JOHNSON says the most surprising thing about the 20th century has been the failure of God to die.
39 THE STAKE W E ’RE IN DAVID SOSKICE warns New Labour against copying Germany’s concept of stakeholding. Upwardly mobile women do better in Britain and the US.
2 PROSPECT April 1996
