NOVEMBER 2023 PROSPECT
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REGULARS & COLUMNS
THE CULTURE
PODCASTS
The grid Contributors People
George Benjamin, Lada Nuzhna, Ellen Clifford, Michael Plant, Mama Shamsa Philosopher-at-large:
Rethinking the generation war Sasha Mudd Diary
Francis Wheen How we’ve enshittified the tech economy Ethan Zuckerman € The government that stopped governing Sam Freedman The joy of lex: Z
Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Letters plus In fact ‰€ Lives € Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s
Brain Teaser €€ Brief encounter
Rory Stewart
Thinking man
A conversation with the philosopher Daniel Dennett Julian Baggini Flower power
Some people will go to great lengths for orchids Cal Flyn Our permeable selves
Essays by a writer who is literally and figuratively thin-skinned Marina Benjamin Here is the challenge
John Gray raises questions that liberals must seek to answer Matthew d’Ancona ‰ Books in brief ‰‘ TV: Sex lives of the young and middle-aged Imogen West-Knights ‰ Stage: Women in the universe
Kate Maltby ‰ Film: The last sights
Sukhdev Sandhu ‰ Classical: The glory of Goethe
Ian Bostridge ‰ Pop: National treasure
Laura Barton
Cover photograph by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed
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