John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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World Affairs
Unfit for the burdens of empire
- 21 April 2003
An extension of the war would suit Bush nicely because it would distract attention from economic problems right up to next year's election. But can the US really carry out the role of an imperial power?
Ideas
The beast stirs. Thomas Hoobes is often dismissed as a reactionary thinker. But in fact he was a pioneering liberal who has much to teach us today. By John Gray
- 21 April 2003
Aspects of Hobbes Noel Malcolm Clarendon Press, 644pp, £40 ISBN 0199247145
Politics
The foolish hopes of Washington's new Jacobins
- 31 March 2003
America's neoconservatives have the same utopian ambitions as the revolutionaries of 18th-century France and 20th-century Russia. Stubborn Iraqi soldiers are just the first of many obstacles
Politics
America is no longer invincible
- 10 March 2003
The post-cold war world is over. The United States is too dependent on foreign capital to fulfil its role as global hegemon; and the Iraq crisis has unravelled the international settlement it created
Ideas
In search of a lost God. Friedrich Nietzsche saw himself as an heir to the Enlightenment, a partisan of reason whose task was to cut philosophy free from its roots in religion. But his quest led ultimately to madness and unhappiness. John Gray on the life and work of a disturbed visionary
- 03 March 2003
Friedrich Nietzsche Curtis Cate Hutchinson, 689pp, £25 ISBN 0091801621
Global Issues
A Modest Proposal
- 17 February 2003
A Modest Proposal For Preventing Torturers in Liberal Democracies From Being Abused, and For Recognising Their Benefit to The Public. By John Gray (with apologies to Jonathan Swift)
Ideas
The emptiness of a secular creed. The editor of the Economist, in his indifference to the human costs of an ideology, is like the western apologists for the old Soviet Union, argues John Gray
- 03 February 2003
20:21 Vision: the lessons of the 20th century for the 21st Bill Emmott Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 327pp, £20 ISBN 071399519X
Ideas
NS Essay - 'American culture is animated by a heresy: that human nature is not inherently flawed but essentially good'
- 20 January 2003
The real danger of President Bush's plans for Iraq is that they are based on the belief that evil can be eradicated from the world. St Augustine knew better and so, after centuries of experience, do Europeans
Ideas
NS Christmas Essay 1 - The myth of secularism
- 16 December 2002
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Religion is a natural human impulse, which our society tries to repress just as the Victorians did sex. That is why atheists are so rancorous and intolerant
Books
Bookmarks - our occasional series when writers return to works of great personal or public moment
- 02 December 2002
John Gray on Rex Warner's The Aerodrome
