John Gray

John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman.

The cult of Stalin the intellectual

A valuable study of the dictator’s reading habits is absurdly revisionist about his capacity for cruelty.

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Keith Lowe’s The Fear and the Freedom is an intimate portrayal of how human beings carry on when their world…

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Jeremy Corbyn has consolidated a bourgeois capture of the party begun by Tony Blair.

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A new book from Thomas E Ricks explores the similarities between two 20th century mavericks.

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Western apologists for the Soviet Union believed they were in the vanguard of history.

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Meet the transhumanists who believe that the brain can outlive the body.

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Liberal Britain is not being heard because it speaks incessantly of a past that cannot be retrieved.

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Dystopian novels of the 1930s and 1940s feel topical once again – but how much do they tell us…

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We should celebrate the solitary hunters among us.

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