This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

While Rachel Reeves was flashing multi-billion cheques around in the House of Commons this week, voters about 100 miles away in the Severn ward of Stroud were voting in a council byelection, held—most ...

Picasso’s Face—VS Pritchett Short Story Prize-winner 2020 It was probably a mistake to take the baby to the beach ...

The Tories need their own Farage. Can they find one? If Kemi Badenoch continues as Tory leader, her party’s decline could become terminal ...

How do you resist the ‘enshittification’ of the internet? This week, Prospect tech columnist Ethan Zuckerman joins Ellen and Alona to talk about artificial intelligence, social media and the state of ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video ...

Two new books help us make sense of Trump by elucidating what was already there for him to grab—and then twist. Sam Tanenhaus’s biography Buckley catalogues 20th-century America’s greatest reactionary ...

The great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang his way through interesting times—but don’t we now, too?

The history of China takes many forms. The Communist party produces official histories, of course, which support the narrative of preordained Marxist triumphs—resulting in more than a fair share of ...

Many of the SkinnyTok videos involve incessant body-checking (influencers not-so-subtly turning 90 degrees to show off their lack of tummy) and depressing what-I- (don’t)-eat-in-a-day vlogs (long ...