Books The invention of God David Baddiel’s new book argues that a deity that saves us from death is confected from human desire. By John Gray
Comment In its pursuit of Russian regime change, the West is doomed to repeat the errors of the Iraq War By John Gray
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 John Gray
Robert Kaplan’s tragic realism Haunted by his misguided support for the Iraq War, the American writer turned to tragedy to understand the delusions… By John Gray
Nietzsche, narwhals and the burden of consciousness Justin Gregg’s witty exploration of animal intelligence is a useful guide – but there is more to human life… By John Gray
The delusions that bind communism and liberalism The self-deception that fuelled Bolshevism did not die with the end of the Cold War: it persists in Western… By John Gray
The dangerous conceits of the green revolution The climate emergency requires serious politics – not bourgeois protests that block traffic and vandalise works of art. By John Gray
The fall of Liz Truss will not bring calm but rather a new period of conflict The Conservatives know they have no solution for Britain’s worsening crises and yearn for release from the burden of… By John Gray
The Passenger: The phantom world of Cormac McCarthy In The Passenger, his first novel for 16 years, the great American writer offers a study of living without… By John Gray
Adam Curtis’s magic lantern through Russia The documentary-maker’s new series shows how a country traumatised by the failures of communism and capitalism ended up with… By John Gray