John Gray

Articles by John Gray

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  • 02 December 2002

John Gray on Rex Warner's The Aerodrome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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