John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Politics
World at war
- 25 November 2002
Terror on the Tube and plans to invade Iraq are just the beginning. Industrialisation, it was thought, would end human conflict; in fact, it leads to a fiercer battle for scarce resources
Society
Ulrika is a sign that we've got it all
- 28 October 2002
Celebrity sells. But it's more than a marketing tool: it is an expression of our unprecedented democracy and prosperity - and boredom. By John Gray
Politics
Entombed in poverty. Russia - John Gray on the market madness of the post-Soviet period
- 28 October 2002
Russia: experiment with a people
Robert Service Macmillan, 408pp, £20
ISBN 033372626X
Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: a history of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras
Alexander Chubarov Continuum, 318pp, £20
ISBN 0826413501
Politics
The Reckoning
- 30 September 2002
Labour Party Conference - Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have turned Britain into a gigantic hedge fund, betting both its public services and the long-term security of its people on the health of the global markets. They are heading for the most terrible fall, argues John Gray
Ideas
The darkness within. John Gray on why the left is in flight from "human nature"
- 16 September 2002
The Blank Slate: the modern denial of human nature
Steven Pinker Allen Lane, 509pp, £25
ISBN 0713996722
Ideas
NS Essay - Happy to be handcuffed by the state
- 19 August 2002
Liberals refuse to accept that the greatest threat to freedom comes not from an over-mighty government but one that is too weak to guarantee its citizens' safety
World Affairs
Through a rear-view mirror. John Gray outlines a tragic vision of history
- 29 July 2002
Up the Down Escalator: why the global pessimists are wrong
Charles Leadbeater Viking, 384pp, £20
ISBN 0670913227
Environment
NS Essay - When the forests go, shall we be alone?
- 22 July 2002
Some scientists think that, as it destroys other species, humanity will leave the age of mammals for the era of solitude. But John Gray expects something far worse
Books
Artist of the floating world . Elmore Leonard's great gift is to show us as we really are: with little inner life or any real faith in the future. John Gray on a hard-edged master of the spoken word
- 01 July 2002
Tishomingo Blues
Elmore Leonard Viking, 320pp, £16.99
ISBN 0670912956
Ideas
NS Essay - The unstoppable march of the clones
- 24 June 2002
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We have failed to control the spread of nuclear weapons. So how can we hope to control the development of designer babies and other results of biotechnology?
