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2 In this issue FEATURES Donald the demagogue Why a second Trump presidency could do far more damage than the first Francis Fukuyama An unhappy union If the US is to survive, it must rethink the relationship between the states and the federal government Alison L LaCroix PROSPECT DECEMBER 2024 The women who hate feminism How some young women are being drawn to a life with less freedom and less equality Sarah Manavis Temporary accommodation nation Cash-strapped councils and a chaotic, failing system have left hundreds of thousands of familes in Britain without a proper home Jack Shaw Conversation: Live and let die Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering and uphold an essential human right, or enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? Brenda Hale & Rowan Williams
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DECEMBER 2024 PROSPECT 3 REGULARS & COLUMNS THE CULTURE PODCASTS The grid Contributors People Ghassan Abu Sitta, Tanni Grey- Thompson, Daniel Rivacoba, Raphaël Arnault, Anna Holland Labour’s philosophical deficit Philip Collins The Middle East’s endless wars Louis Fishman Fiscal rules? What fiscal rules? Sam Freedman The Amish approach to AI Ethan Zuckerman € Diary Carys Afoko Letters plus In fact The joy of lex: Lame duck Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large: The power of political lies Sasha Mudd ‹Œ Lives Œ Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s Brain Teaser ŒŒ Brief encounter Sue Prideaux Œ The punch-up This is the struggle at the heart of British feminism Alona Ferber A poet of prose TS Eliot’s other body of work Jeremy Noel-Tod The future is black and white Chess’s technological turn Daniel Rey ‹ Speaking for NYC A tribute to the freakiest days of the Village Voice Philip Clark ‹ Books in brief ‹ Art: The White Pube visit the White Cube David McAllister ‹ TV: The enduring hopelessness of ‘Threads’ Imogen West-Knights ‹ Film: The end of the flop Sukhdev Sandhu ‹‹ Stage: Sophocles’s daughters Kate Maltby Cover photograph by Emily Edwards, post-production by the Retouching Shed. Images via Shutterstock → Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why “Muslims don’t matter” → Peter Geoghegan on how democracy is “for sale” → Isabel Hilton and Sam Alvis on COP and the climate culture wars → At prospectmagazine.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts ONLINE → The Prospect website is updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: → Isabel Hilton How Taiwan lost its place at the UN → DAT Green David Gauke’s sentencing review is the only way to tackle the prisons crisis → Liam Byrne and Dan Neidle Is it time for a wealth tax? FOLLOW PROSPECT → X @prospect_uk Threads @prospect_magazine Facebook prospectmagazineuk Instagram @prospect_magazine TikTok @prospectmagazine

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In this issue

FEATURES

Donald the demagogue Why a second Trump presidency could do far more damage than the first Francis Fukuyama

An unhappy union If the US is to survive, it must rethink the relationship between the states and the federal government Alison L LaCroix

PROSPECT DECEMBER 2024

The women who hate feminism How some young women are being drawn to a life with less freedom and less equality Sarah Manavis

Temporary accommodation nation Cash-strapped councils and a chaotic, failing system have left hundreds of thousands of familes in Britain without a proper home Jack Shaw

Conversation: Live and let die Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering and uphold an essential human right, or enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? Brenda Hale & Rowan Williams

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