Malcolm Gladwell’s cult of smartness
The educated rationalists addressed by Revenge of the Tipping Point are sometimes the dumbest – and baddest – of them all.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane).
The educated rationalists addressed by Revenge of the Tipping Point are sometimes the dumbest – and baddest – of them all.
By John GrayLike the former communist bloc, Western liberalism is slowly disintegrating.
By John GrayAccording to Emmanuel Macron, the best analysis of the dangers facing the continent today comes from a French historian…
By John GrayThe Conservative Party created Reform by embracing liberal extremism. What comes next may not be what Labour expects.
By John GrayVoters are turning to the Reform leader because he tells a story that chimes with their lives.
By John GrayWith Britain in ruins, change without disruption means no change at all.
By John GrayA revelatory edition of his diaries and a new biography upend the simplified myth of the anguished writer.
By John GrayThe Prime Minister’s performative populism and unending U-turns are acts in a music-hall farce.
By John GrayScotland’s hegemonic progressive regime was a chimera. Labour should take note.
By John Gray