John Gray

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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

  • 04 February 2010
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Apocalyptic theories about the massacres of the past century obscure the root causes of conflict.

The Neoliberal State

  • 07 January 2010

Neoliberalism has delivered not a small state, but a bloated market state in which government interference is omnipresent.

The Political Gene: How Darwin’s Ideas Changed Politics

  • 17 December 2009
  • 1 comment

The end of a dream

  • 10 December 2009
  • 2 comments

Unreality is the defining feature of the fashionable ideas of the past decade. Perhaps only a more serious crisis will overturn these delusive fancies

The Man in the High Castle

  • 08 October 2009

Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto

  • 10 September 2009
  • 4 comments

We have, it seems, led the planet into the age of ecocide. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable environmental catastrophe? To stand a chance we will need cool heads, not fiery dreams.

The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World

  • 27 August 2009
  • 6 comments

Western progressives nostalgic for the Soviet Union shouldn’t get too excited by the global financial crisis, writes John Gray. A fine new history of communism shows why

Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name

  • 16 July 2009
  • 1 comment

The “historian of the present” Timothy Garton Ash claims to look at the world with unflinching honesty. But he is not facing facts

When China Rules the World

  • 18 June 2009
  • 18 comments

It is clear that the rise of China marks the end of western global hegemony, but just what the coming Chinese ascendency will look like is another matter.

God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World

  • 21 May 2009
  • 18 comments

Contrary to what evangelical rationalists preach, it is perfectly possible both to be modern and to believe in God. But there is no reason to assume that the American religious model will prevail

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Cameron flip flops

Flipping Tory policies prove a flop

Interview

Clive James

The NS interview: Clive James

Political speeches

Our top ten

Great political speeches

Film review

Invictus

Invictus (12A)

Andrew Stephen

The real Salinger

The real reason Salinger sought  escape

Mark Watson

Preparing for fatherhood

Immaculate conception

John Gray

A cure for genocide?

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

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