📕 Our latest issue just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 For our cover essay, Philip Ball argues that the “AI could destroy humanity” story has been imposed by Silicon Valley itself—and it’s time to challenge it: prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…

From Barbie dolls to AI chatbots, Frida Kahlo’s afterlife shows how fans now remake their heroes—and how little control anyone has left, writes Grace Spencer prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

“If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it,” Anne Carson once said. It’s a useful tip for writers aspiring to the Nobel Prize in Literature, which Carson was recently awarded... prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

Ahead of tomorrow’s vote, the Netanyahu and anti-Netanyahu blocs have been neck-and-neck. The later’s failure to build a broader coalition with Arab parties risks keeping Bibi in power, writes Alona Ferber prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…

“One would think it unlikely that the British state would prosecute a famous Irish author and an even more famous publishing house. But little about the terrorism law of the UK makes sense at the moment,” writes DAT Green prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…

Ofcom appears perfectly happy with a channel pumping out right-wing propaganda. It may be time to take the watchdog’s advice and create an alternative, writes @arusbridger prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…

A new Stephen King book is not necessarily something to get excited about these days. But the third instalment of his “Talisman Trilogy” might change that, writes George Cochrane prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

A treeless basalt rock in the Atlantic, with just two residents… Philippa Nuttall reviews Tim Ecott’s EVA AND THE ISLAND—a book about community, not just farming: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

🎧: @jessphillips, Labour MP and former minister for violence against women and girls, joins Prospect’s new podcast Tell Me Why. She speaks to @paperdispatch and Imaan about how the rise of the internet has changed gendered violence: prospectmagazine.co.uk/podca…

Kant said Hume woke him from his “dogmatic slumber”. Jane O’Grady reviews Hume’s Complete Essays—and reveals what he left us, including some superstitions of his own: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Alona Ferber explains why Benjamin Netanyahu is still in the race ahead of tomorrow’s Israeli election prospectmagazine.substack.co…

Hermione Lee finds satisfaction in uncovering truths through her biographies. But as the relationship between public and private “shifts hugely”, she wonders whether the practice is at risk prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…

Marlon James’s THE DISAPPEARERS is a searing account of growing up gay in Jamaica—and it’s on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist. Fiammetta Rocco reviews: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

✍🏼 @ben_clark56 on the new play about JM Keynes: “the intellectual history it presents particularly relevant to Britain today, as Andy Burnham promises to end the neoliberal settlement” prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

While most of Hong Kong’s democracy movement had been dismantled, Chow Hang-tung was a rare voice of defiance—until her conviction last week. Frankie Vetch reports prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…

Lula has won the Brazilian presidential runoff. But, as @brumelianebrum wrote on Saturday, the first round results still spell trouble for the Amazon. Seven of the forest’s nine governors now have ties to Bolsonarism... prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…

“For many people in the 21st century, freedom is a set of keys.” So said a druid protesting against traffic curbs in Oxford. Stuart Jeffries on the car as a symbol of identity: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

“A president need not like teenagers. But when they spell out what they need, down to the length of the lunch break, ‘I don’t understand’ starts to sound like a choice.” @Diane2V on the French protests: prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…

“The closest that leaders have to a quick fix is to close Europe’s borders to immigrants, which is happening country by country. But when the borders close to outsiders and growth doesn’t follow, what then?” writes Andrew Adonis prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…