John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Books
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order
- 12 December 2011
- 7 comments
The paper money system is a matter of faith.
Books
Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius
- 10 November 2011
- 1 comment
The ideological fantasies of modern economics.
Books
The Inner Man: the Life of J G Ballard
- 12 September 2011
- 6 comments
A model for missing the point of biography.
Global Issues
Perpetual warfare
- 08 September 2011
- 23 comments
As the ruins of the twin towers still smouldered, the west plunged into a series of conflicts it could not win. Can it now confront its diminished place in the world?
Books
The Play of the Eyes
- 15 August 2011
- 2 comments
The last volume in Elias Canetti’s memoirs published in his lifetime pulls away from theorising about the nature of crowds, power and evil and moves into the domain of honest depiction of humanity, with all its quirks.
Books
Titus Awakes: the Lost Book of Gormenghast
- 18 July 2011
- 2 comments
A moving conclusion to a grand saga.
Culture
Death in Florence: the Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- 09 June 2011
- 6 comments
How a mad monk spawned our ideas of egalitarianism.
Books
The Most Human Human: a Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer
- 12 May 2011
- 6 comments
Robots can teach us how to live.
