John Gray is the New Statesman’s lead book reviewer. His latest book is The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom.
Donald Trump’s victory has changed politics irrevocably. The age of unchecked globalisation and armed missionaries for liberal values is over. And we are entering a new age of great-power rivalry.
Swift believed that humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use. But did he take the human comedy too seriously?
The folly of the masses has replaced the wisdom of crowds as the dominant theme of our politics.
The next great stage of our evolution has begun. But what will our successes look like – and will they be that different to us?
If the 1980s were a time when the global market was expanding, our time is one in which globalisation is stalled and fragmenting. It is the right, not the left, that has grasped what the new times mean.
A new book by Richard English suggests that killing can bring its own rewards.
The world is changing in ways the British left cannot comprehend.
Father than denying the contradictoriness of being human, Empson revelled in it, as The Face of Buddha reveals.
Wealth creation, the free market and a bourgeois way of life are not a package deal. In fact, they can, and often are, at odds with each other.
Daniel Oppenheimer's Exit Right: the People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century examines the apostates who crossed the political divide.
Trump, Brexit, the rise of the far right across Europe – these are turbulent times for the world. Help us hold our leaders to account and tell the stories the world needs to hear.
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