We see it when Jesus rides into Jerusalem on an ass, when he tells Peter to put away his sword, and when he dies on the cross ...

“Less Holocaust, more Anne Frank,” was the advice Michael Grunwald received from the CEO of a publishing house who opted not to bid for his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth. Grunwald took notice.

Donald Trump behaves increasingly like Shakespeare’s King Lear. “I will have such revenges on you both / That all the world shall—I will do such things— / What they are, yet I know not: but they shall ...

In April last year, a Bristol academic named Matthew Steggle published a paper that upturned everything conventionally assumed about William Shakespeare’s marriage. In a convincing analysis, Steggle ...

The newspaper comic is one of America’s longest-running traditions, but it’s been in the doldrums for decades. Now a new generation of artists is leading a change ...

©BANANA PANCAKE/GETTY IMAGES I’ve seen a good deal in England which suggested that, just maybe, not all was well with the collective psyche—the in-your-face binge drinking, the bookies stoking ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

For all Aristotle’s reputation as the greatest of the ancient philosophers, most today rightly bracket off his defence of slavery and his dim view of the intellectual capacities of women as ...

There’s an idea kicking around that “woke” is killing culture. According to elder statesmen of the arts, from John Cleese to Sean Penn, do-gooders and virtue-signallers are suffocating the life out of ...