“Active measures”: a history of Russian interference in US elections Interconnectivity has made it easier than ever—but recent meddling has precedent ...

Listen: Luyendijk chats to Prospect Editor Tom Clark in our monthly podcast, Headspace When I came to live in London with my family in 2011 I did not have to think of a work or residency permit. My ...

If current immigration levels continue, white Britons will be in a minority in the UK in little more than 50 years—within the lifespan of most young a ...

Sex and analytic philosophy are not promising bedfellows. But when it comes to feminist philosophy, it is no mere pun to say that sex is where the action is. The revival of this neglected feminist ...

Stewart Lee is having none of it. “I don’t have sympathy of any sort with Seinfeld,” he tells me. “A man of his ability, if he’s not able to think a little bit around whatever he imagines are these ...

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This is not the time for negotiations over Ukraine. Successful peace negotiations usually require both a mutually hurting stalemate (a specific concept in diplomacy) and leadership on both sides ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

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 ...

The short story emerged in a blitzkrieg of 19th-century magazine publishing, reached its apotheosis with Chekhov, and became one of the great 20th-cen ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

Dead Internet Theory says that you’re the only human left online. It started out as a conspiratorial joke, but it is edging ever closer to reality ...