Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right
The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.
By
John Gray
John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. He has written on various political and cultural subjects, from Boris Johnson's premiership to the life of HG Wells.
Latest articles
All Articles
Milan Kundera’s identity crisis
In renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
By
What Cormac McCarthy knew
The American novelist understood the bleak truth that the world defies human understanding or control.
By
How to survive a nuclear holocaust
A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our…
By
The invention of God
David Baddiel’s new book argues that a deity that saves us from death is confected from human desire.
By
The New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
By
In its pursuit of Russian regime change, the West is doomed to repeat the errors of the Iraq War
A new generation of liberal hawks views Ukraine as the pivotal battlefield in a global struggle for democracy.
By
The triumph of corporate newspeak
An unreal consensus grips our politics – and Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak offer only technocratic fixes for a…
By
The deep realism of Better Call Saul
This Breaking Bad spin-off was a high point in television drama: never has a series better conveyed the complexities…
By