John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Environment
Letting climate change happen
- 29 May 2006
All shades of opinion are in denial about the magnitude of the environmental challenge facing us. Our need to be comfortable may be stronger than our will to survive, argues John Gray
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Atheists are irrational too
- 20 March 2006
Breaking the Spell: religion as a natural phenomenon
Daniel C Dennett Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 464pp, £25
ISBN 0713997893
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: the evolutionary origins of belief
Lewis Wolpert Faber & Faber, 243pp, £14.99
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Method man
- 17 October 2005
Descartes: the life of Rene Descartes and its place in his times
A C Grayling Free Press, 352pp, £20
ISBN 0743231473
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Suicide bombers are often portrayed as demoniacal psychopaths, but the perpetrators of both 9/11 and 7 July appear to have been remarkably normal. Were such men attracted to jihadism because it helped give meaning to their otherwise aimless lives?
- 12 September 2005
Perfect Soldiers: the 9/11 hijackers - who they were, why they did it
Terry McDermott Politico's, 330pp, £12.99
ISBN 184275145X
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Diminishing returns
- 25 July 2005
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Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy
Matthew R Simmons Wiley, 422pp, £15.99
ISBN 047173876X
World Affairs
A violent episode in the virtual world
- 18 July 2005
Terror and the UK - The media's globalisation of terror makes us feel part of a worldwide community facing a common problem, but this is a dangerous illusion, argues John Gray
Ideas
NS Essay - 'From Churchill to Macmillan on to Thatcher and Blair, British leaders have encouraged the idea that we can still be a global player. It is a fantasy'
- 06 June 2005
New Labour prides itself on "thinking the unthinkable", but its policies are still guided by the stale platitudes of the Thatcher era. Let's dump these failed ideas and think experimentally, urges John Gray
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Lost in thought. Thanks to academic specialisation, the history of ideas is not a flourishing discipline. Most English-speaking philosophers know little of their own intellectual traditions, let alone non-western ones. John Gray applauds a study that avoids the usual parochialism
- 30 May 2005
Ideas: a history from fire to Freud
Peter Watson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 822pp, £30
ISBN 029760726X
Politics
'The people and the political class are at one: neither wants to face the future'
- 09 May 2005
Election: the future - the big picture
Declining world oil production, the huge private debts of Britons and Americans, the lack of an exit strategy in Iraq, and irreversible global warming: these are the big challenges of the next four years. For all of them, Britain will be gloriously unprepared
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Close encounters
- 07 March 2005
Aliens: why they are here
Bryan Appleyard Scribner, 340pp, £15.99
ISBN 0743256859
