John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Politics
Appeasement: Should we strike a deal?
- 26 April 2004
When Spain announced it would pull its troops out of Iraq, it was accused of rewarding terrorism. But in an unjust war, there is no virtue in stoical resolution. By John Gray
Ideas
NS Essay - The best hope for animal liberation is that humans kill each other in wars
- 09 February 2004
The big threat to the welfare of other species is the unchecked expansion of "homo rapiens". Those who object to vivisection are missing the big picture, argues John Gray
Culture
Icons of evil
- 02 February 2004
We do not know why people commit terrible crimes. While contemporary artists have responded with a mix of irony and pornography, the media has sought to comfort us with a succession of banal morality tales. By John Gray
Ideas
NS Essay 2 - New science, old myth
- 15 December 2003
From the Middle Ages through Marx to the free market, humankind has clung desperately to the idea of progress. And still we delude ourselves
Ideas
NS Essay - Michael Howard may turn out to be the Tory leader who lays Thatcher's ghost
- 10 November 2003
It is an ugly prospect, but a strong state, old Labour on public services and right-wing on immigrants, could be the central vision of a new Conservatism
Ideas
The end of endism. Terry Eagleton (left) has decided that cultural theory is passe. He is angry that most of its practitioners have renounced Marxism. But his arguments are both misguided and outmoded, writes John Gray
- 13 October 2003
After Theory Terry Eagleton Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 240pp, £18.99 ISBN 071399732X
Politics
NS Essay - Labour can renew itself only by recognising that Blair has become a dangerous liability
- 06 October 2003
Though the PM likes to compare himself with Thatcher, he looks like ending up as another Major. He, too, may cling to power, but it will be downhill all the way
Ideas
NS Essay - "Power failures reveal a deep truth: the earth's resources are irrevocably finite"
- 08 September 2003
We like to believe that growth can go on for ever and that the western way of life can be replicated across the world. Electricity cuts and computer viruses are early warnings that we are wrong
Books
The search for meaning. J G Ballard's vision of the world is unsurpassed in its clairvoyant exactitude. His latest despatch from the near future is as bleak and beautiful as ever, writes John Gray
- 08 September 2003
Millennium People J G Ballard Flamingo, 294pp, £16.99 ISBN 000225848X
Politics
NS Essay - 'Bush and Blair deceived us about the reasons for going to war, but they deceived themselves about its impact on Iraq'
- 04 August 2003
Policing a collapsed state is a potentially interminable business and to turn to the UN for salvation is just another exercise in wishful thinking. By John Gray
