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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 24 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 &
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MARCH 62 Critical thinking 53 53 Trapping the beast Francis Bacon’s visceral figures expose humanity’s animal nature 58 Web of words Writers are grappling with the internet’s pathologies and pleasures 61 WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A.... Bat A philosopher asked the question in 1974. We’ve learned a lot since 62 BOOKS Bang to rights A new critique of human rights misses why we still need them 67 Lost in the magic money forest Rishi Sunak has had a good pandemic. Can it last? 70 Dark side of the moonshot Technocratic policymaking has its attractions. But don’t forget politics 73 Milton’s prophetic strain How the author of Paradise Lost found himself 76 BOOKS IN BRIEF 78 RECOMMENDS Policy & Money 73 80 ECONOMICS AND INVESTMENT When to cut and run ‚ƒ„ „…ƒƒ†ƒ & 82 POLICY REPORT Housing after Covid-19 , & And finally... 85 The Generalist and Enigmas & 87 The ratings game As online shopping booms everyone has become a critic ‡ƒˆ‡‰Š‹Œ‡ Œ†Žƒ…‘’† 88 BRIEF ENCOUNTER James O’Brien In the next issue John Kay charts the rise and fall of the PLC, and Eliane Glaser on homeschooling and the new grammar wars On the podcast: Andrew Adonis and Evan Osnos on what to expect from Joe Biden’s first 100 days Marc Stears on the art of the ordinary Samira Shackle discusses life and death in Karachi Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts Continue the discussion online The Prospect website is updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: Jonathan Jones tells Alex Dean why he resigned over government lawbreaking Neal Lawson explains Labour’s Scottish problem Rosalind Jana on the poetry of funerals Emily Lawford—Britain’s schools crisis Peter Salmon on demonising Foucault and Derrida Follow Prospect Twitter @prospect_uk, @prospect_events Facebook facebook.com/prospect.mag Instagram prospect_magazine

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MARCH

62

Critical thinking

53

53 Trapping the beast

Francis Bacon’s visceral figures expose humanity’s animal nature 58 Web of words

Writers are grappling with the internet’s pathologies and pleasures 61 WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A....

Bat A philosopher asked the question in 1974. We’ve learned a lot since 62 BOOKS

Bang to rights A new critique of human rights misses why we still need them 67 Lost in the magic money forest

Rishi Sunak has had a good pandemic. Can it last? 70 Dark side of the moonshot

Technocratic policymaking has its attractions. But don’t forget politics 73 Milton’s prophetic strain

How the author of Paradise Lost found himself 76 BOOKS IN BRIEF 78 RECOMMENDS

Policy & Money

73

80 ECONOMICS AND INVESTMENT

When to cut and run ‚ƒ„ „…ƒƒ†ƒ & 82 POLICY REPORT

Housing after Covid-19 , &

And finally...

85 The Generalist and Enigmas

& 87 The ratings game

As online shopping booms everyone has become a critic ‡ƒˆ‡‰Š‹Œ‡ Œ†Žƒ…‘’† 88 BRIEF ENCOUNTER

James O’Brien

In the next issue

John Kay charts the rise and fall of the PLC, and Eliane Glaser on homeschooling and the new grammar wars

On the podcast: Andrew Adonis and Evan Osnos on what to expect from Joe Biden’s first 100 days Marc Stears on the art of the ordinary

Samira Shackle discusses life and death in Karachi Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts

Continue the discussion online

The Prospect website is updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: Jonathan Jones tells Alex Dean why he resigned over government lawbreaking

Neal Lawson explains Labour’s

Scottish problem Rosalind Jana on the poetry of funerals Emily Lawford—Britain’s schools crisis

Peter Salmon on demonising

Foucault and Derrida

Follow Prospect

Twitter @prospect_uk, @prospect_events Facebook facebook.com/prospect.mag

Instagram prospect_magazine

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