John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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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
World Affairs
Beyond belief. Al-Qaeda's apocalyptic brand of religion runs counter to the secular myths of the west. As a result, we fail to understand its essential modernity, argues John Gray
- 14 July 2003
Al-Qaeda: casting a shadow of terror Jason Burke I B Tauris, 304pp, £18.95 ISBN 1850433968
Books
An encounter with evil. Patricia Highsmith was fascinated by the unnoticed amorality of ordinary people. While this led to a troubled life, it was the source of her novels' unsettling power. By John Gray
- 30 June 2003
Beautiful Shadow: a life of Patricia Highsmith Andrew Wilson Bloomsbury, 534pp, £25 ISBN 0747563144
Ideas
NS Essay - Faith in political action is dead; it is technology that expresses the dream of a transformed world
- 23 June 2003
The Matrix films echo the choice of the west's affluent majority, who prefer the virtual reality shown by the mass media to the true reality of suffering and evil
World Affairs
NS Essay - For Europe's sake, keep Britain out
- 19 May 2003
John Gray argues that the world needs an assertive power as a counterweight to the US, and that this cause can only be set back if Blair takes us into the euro
