What the Huxleys got wrong
Aldous, Julian and Thomas saw themselves as arbiters of the good life – but they fell prey to prejudice and pseudo-science.
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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.
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