John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Non Fiction
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
- 27 April 2011
- 2 comments
The naturalist Richard Mabey’s latest book shows how human beings best find health and pleasure not by looking within, but by immersing themselves in the world of which they are an integral part.
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Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties
- 14 April 2011
- 2 comments
Remembering a mystical era.
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The New North: the World in 2050
- 31 March 2011
- 1 comment
The intensifying struggle for natural resources.
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Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People
- 10 February 2011
- 16 comments
We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined myth.
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How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
- 20 January 2011
- 6 comments
The piety and provincialism of Eric Hobsbawm.
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The Wit and Wisdom of G K Chesterton
- 09 December 2010
G K Chesterton’s metaphysical nightmare.
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Why the West Rules – For Now: the Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
- 04 November 2010
- 2 comments
Ian Morris describes how western pre-eminence came about through accidents of geography, technology and social change, and how these factors are universal. Yet what he presents is not a credible science of history, but a myth.
