John Gray
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Politics
The laptop fascists
- 27 May 2002
Do not dismiss Europe's far-right parties as simply reactionary. They are all the more menacing because, like the Nazis before them, they embrace modernity
Politics
To remain in splendid isolation. Is Britain's refusal to commit to Europe neurotic or a mark of common sense? John Gray on why Will Hutton is wrong about our place in the world and why there may never be a referendum on the euro
- 13 May 2002
The World We're In
Will Hutton Little, Brown, 320pp, £17.99
ISBN 0316858714
Global Issues
The NS Essay - A target for destructive ferocity
- 29 April 2002
Joseph Conrad's world, where terrorists plotted to blow up the Royal Observatory, speaks to our own. Look no further for a great contemporary novelist. By John Gray
Arts & Culture
Back to the future. Aldous Huxley was very much a product of his time: racist, snobbish and superior. But he was also a visionary, a chronicler of our disturbed modernity. By John Gray
- 08 April 2002
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual
Nicholas Murray Little, Brown, 496pp, £20
ISBN 0316854921
Economy
The New Statesman Essay - The decay of the free market
- 25 March 2002
The IMF and the World Bank carry on as if nothing had changed, but it is already clear that we have entered a new era of state power
Books
Why terrorism is unbeatable. Revolutionary nihilism of the kind embodied by al-Qaeda is not a throwback to the past but part of what it means to be modern. John Grayreviews the reaction to 11 September and argues that Americans, like the rest of us, must learn to live with such shocks
- 25 February 2002
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid Yale University Press, 272pp, £16.95
ISBN 0300093454
Books
A reputation of merit
- 15 October 2001
Michael Young: social entrepreneur
Asa Briggs Palgrave, 432pp, £52.50
ISBN 0333750233
Politics
The era of globalisation is over
- 24 September 2001
Terror in America: Essay 2 - Communism failed, but market liberalism then tried to impose its own utopia. The atrocities should mark the end of that crusade
Arts & Culture
When the living is easy
- 20 August 2001
Summer Special - John Gray follows the Etruscan example and rediscovers the art of living
