John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Society
A Modest Defence of The President and His Policies of Creative Destruction
- 17 January 2005
Inauguration - John Gray justifies Fallujah and Guantanamo and looks forward to further developments in Bush's crusade for freedom. (With apologies to Jonathan Swift)
Books
Back to Mill
- 15 November 2004
The Snake That Swallowed Its Tail: some contradictions in modern liberalism
Mark Garnett Imprint Academic, 96pp, £8.95
ISBN 0907845886
Books
The death of meaning. Over the past 15 years, the world has been ravaged by a new kind of purposeless war. on why unending conflict may be what really defines our times
- 01 November 2004
War, Evil and the End of History
Bernard-Henri Levy; translated by Charlotte Mandell Duckworth, 371pp, £20
ISBN 0715633368
Books
History bites back Francis Fukuyama believes the key to making failing states successful is to remodel them on western lines. Not so, says John Gray. It is through reforms consistent with their own traditions that countries such as China and Russia have attained their present status
- 05 July 2004
State Building: governance and world order in the 21st century
Francis Fukuyama Profile Books, 194pp, £15.99
ISBN 1861977816
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Beyond reasonable doubt. Nostalgia for Enlightenment values such as rationality and progress has become a rallying cry for sections of both right and left. But it was in the name of these principles that some of the worst crimes of the 20th century were committed
- 31 May 2004
The Seduction of Unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to postmodernism
Richard Wolin Princeton University Press, 375pp, £19.95
ISBN 0691114641
Politics
Appeasement: Should we strike a deal?
- 26 April 2004
When Spain announced it would pull its troops out of Iraq, it was accused of rewarding terrorism. But in an unjust war, there is no virtue in stoical resolution. By John Gray
Ideas
NS Essay - The best hope for animal liberation is that humans kill each other in wars
- 09 February 2004
The big threat to the welfare of other species is the unchecked expansion of "homo rapiens". Those who object to vivisection are missing the big picture, argues John Gray
Arts & Culture
Icons of evil
- 02 February 2004
We do not know why people commit terrible crimes. While contemporary artists have responded with a mix of irony and pornography, the media has sought to comfort us with a succession of banal morality tales. By John Gray
Ideas
NS Essay 2 - New science, old myth
- 15 December 2003
From the Middle Ages through Marx to the free market, humankind has clung desperately to the idea of progress. And still we delude ourselves
Ideas
NS Essay - Michael Howard may turn out to be the Tory leader who lays Thatcher's ghost
- 10 November 2003
It is an ugly prospect, but a strong state, old Labour on public services and right-wing on immigrants, could be the central vision of a new Conservatism
