CONTRIBUTORS TO TH IS ISSUE
ANDREW BILLEN is a staff writer on The Times and television reviewer for the N ew Statesman
MIHIR BOSE is author of The History o f Indian Cricket (Andre Deutsch)
PAUL BROKS is a clinical neuropsychologist. His book Into the Silent L and (Atlantic) will be published in the autumn
STEPHEN BROWN is Prospects theatre critic and a writer living in London
KATHLEEN BURK is a professor of modern history at UCL and the author of Troublemaker: the L ife and History o f A J P Taylor (Yale University Press)
EDWARD CHANCELLOR is an assistant editor for Breakingviews, the financial commentary service
MARK COUSINS is director of BBC’s Scene by Scene and an honorary lecturer in film and media studies at the University of Stirling
NIC DUNLOP is a photographer and writer living in Bangkok
SAMANTHA ELLIS is a playwright and freelance journalist
MICHEL FABER's new novel, The Crimson Petal and the White, will be published by Canongate in October
STEPHANIE FLANDERS was senior adviser to Larry Summers at the US treasury from 1997 to 2001. She is now a freelance writer and consultant living in New York
DAVID GOODHART is editor of Prospect
KATHRYN HUGHES is a contributing editor to Prospect and was a judge of this year’s Whitbread Biography Award
ROBERT KAGAN is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC
BILL KNIGHT was chairman of the London Assembly’s London Weighting Advisory Panel
JOSEPH LEDOUX is a professor at the Centre for Neural Science, New York University. He is the author of The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Macmillan)
ANTONY LERMAN was the executive director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research from 1991 to 1999. He is a former general editor of Antisemitism World Report
ANDRO LINKLATER is the author of Measuring America (HarperCollins) and a full-time writer and journalist
JOHN MORRISON is a former Westminster lobby correspondent and author of Reforming Britain (Reuters)
2 PROSPECT August 2002
c< n t e n t s Issue seventy-seven August 2002
O P IN IO N S 10 Move over, Derry JOHN MORRISON D e r ry Irv ine lias lost the argum ent over reform o f the Lords; his own job is now on the line. A British suprem e court should sweep aside the trip le office o f the Lord Chancellor.
1 1 Cracking cricket MIHIR BOSE If there is a lesson to be drawn from India’s one-day trium ph, it is not about nation o r race, but simply about cricket. Still, for a moment, I heard the crowd reacting as if this was India fighting for freedom again.
12 Is Stiglitz right? STEPHANIE FLANDERS A t an IM F seminar, Joe Stiglitz was shocked by the condemnation aimed at him for his book on globalisation. In some respects, he deserved to be savaged. But the ferocity of the attack signalled that he had hit some targets.
COVER STORY 2 0 The power divide ROBERT KAGAN It is time to stop pretending that Americans and Europeans share a common view of the world
1 6 Blair interview DAVID GOODHART The prime minister on how Europe can still compete
ESSAYS 28 Life, liberty, property ANDRO LINKLATER T h e source o f US exceptionalism is its concept o f property. T he original land survey o f America— when w ilderness became capital— was as crucial as the Declaration o f Independence.
34 S ense on antisem itism ANTONY LERMAN T he rise o f antisem itism in Europe is exaggerated. W hy? A m ix o f paranoia and a means o f deflecting criticism from Israel. European Jews have never enjoyed such freedom and success.
M Y S T O R Y 40 Thirst for knowledge KATHLEEN BURK T h e re is a g reat difference between liking w ine and appreciating it. I w anted to know how to distinguish between a good wine and a g reat one. 1 wanted p leasure backed by knowledge.
