John Gray

Articles by John Gray

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Blind folly

  • 12 June 2006

Seeing José Saramago Harvill Secker, 307pp, £11.99 ISBN 1843432323

Letting climate change happen

  • 29 May 2006
  • 1 comment

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

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

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

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

Diminishing returns

  • 25 July 2005
  • 1 comment

Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy Matthew R Simmons Wiley, 422pp, £15.99 ISBN 047173876X

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

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

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

'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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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