CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
ANTHONY BARNETT works for Charter 88
PETER BERGER is professor o f sociology at Boston University. This essay first appeared in the National Interest
JOHN CARR is a management consultant
JEREMY CLARKE is a freelance writer
BARRY COX is director o f the ITV association and a former director o f LWT
RONALD DORE is senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE
ANTHONY DWORKIN is a senior producer for BBC Radio 4’s Analysis
BILL EMMOTT is editor o f The Economist
CHARLES GOODHART is Norman Sosnow professor o f banking and finance at the LSE
AC GRAYLING is lecturer in philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and senior research fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford
SUSAN GREENBERG is former editor o f World Link
CHARLES HAMPDEN-TURNER teaches at T h e Judge Institute o f Management Studies, Cambridge. His forthcom ingoook is Mastering the Infinite Game (Capstone)
ROBERT HAUPT died in September 1996. This piece first appeared in the Australian Financial Review. His book on Russia, A Country Built on Sand, is due to come out this year
KATHRYN HUGHES is writing a biography o f George E liot
DANIEL JOHNSON is assistant editor o f The Times. He is currently writing The Intellectual History o f Germany
DOUGLAS JOHNSON is professor emeritus o f French H istory at London University
STEVE JONES is professor o f genetics at University College London
DICK LEONARD is a former adviser to Tony Crosland
JOHN MADDOX is former editor o f Nature
DAVID MANASIAN writes for The Economist
VALERIE MONCHI is deputy editor o f Prospect
RICHARD PIPES is professor emeritus o f history at Harvard. He is completing a book on property and freedom
FREDERIC RAPHAEL is a novelist
MARTIN ROSENBAUM is author o f From Soapbox to Soundbite: Party Political Campaigning in Britain since 1945 (Macmillan)
PAUL SAMPSON is a reporter on Neste Compass
CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH is director o f the National Portrait Gallery
GERALD SEGAL is senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
CHRISTOPHER TOOKEY is a film critic
PETER WAYNE is serving 13 years for robbery at Channings Wood
COLIN WELCH who died in January was deputy editor o f the Daily Telegraph
2 PROSPECT March 1997
Prosped: Issue seventeen March 1997
Wooden writing. Page 8
OPINIONS 8 THIS INSIPID DOLL COLIN WELCH on why the witless Noddy books will never be real children's classics.
10 ONE GOVERNMENT, ONE MONEY CHARLES GOODHART says national bond markets could be the victims of a single currency.
16 DEBATE: ASIA’S INFINITE GAME CHARLES HAMPDEN-TURNER AND GERALD SEGAL Are there immutable Asian values or will Pacific rim countries grow more like the west?
ESSAYS 21 TWO TIERS FOR TV BARRY COX Can multi-channel pay television coexist with the best o f public service broadcasting? Maybe, if politicians can get it right.
Emu’s weakness. Page 10
12 TRIVIALISATION WORKS MARTIN ROSENBAUM Only the simplest message can get through to an ignorant electorate.
14 BASIC INSTINCT RICHARD PIPES Why the Harvard University lib rary has no en try for "human nature.”
Religous resurgence. Page 32
Checking state power. Page 26
26 RIGHTS FOR THE RIGHT BILL EMMOTT AND DAVID MANASIAN on why constitutional reform and a bill of rights should be natural causes for the right, not the left.
My first word. Page 14
32 AGAINST THE CURRENT PETER BERGER The idea that modernity leads to the decline o f religion is only applicable in Europe. The world is as furiously religious as it ever was.
