Contents

1 Editorial 5 Contributors 6 Letters

Cover story

Essays

PROSPECT

Up front

8 HOW TO FIX The porn industry

Adult sites host illegal content. Make them responsible for it 9 WHAT YOU NEED TO

KNOW ABOUT... Criminal sentencing

Accusations that judges have

gone soft are unfounded plus In fact 10 IN PRAISE OF LOST CAUSES Austerity

Free money is in vogue— but there’s no such thing plus Stephen Collins’s

cartoon strip 11 AT LAW Killing and the

campaign trail   ­ 12 VIEW FROM Israel The country has led the world

on Covid-19 vaccines—but it can’t forget the Palestinians 13 SPEED DATA Credit crunch

The government’s welfare dilemma Œ 14 THE DUEL

Does politics really matter? Œ   Ž

16 One question can’t wait: why did so many have to die? ,

LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

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PROSPECT PORTRAIT Cometh the hour… Joe Biden might just be the next FDR—if he can clean up Trump’s mess ‘

TOMORROW’S ECONOMY

32 Our land What Scotland can teach us about confronting inequality c

ETERNAL VIGILANCE

38 City on the brink Hong Kong’s space for free expression is narrowing dangerously

BEYOND BORDERS

42 Editing the world Why Wikipedia is the last bastion of idealism on the internet

48 Disaster relief It’s time to rethink the purpose of aid &