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Articles Written by: JOHN GRAY
"I am a fictionalising philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception." This self-assessment by Philip K Dick echoes that of some of his critics, who view the sprawling mass of his work ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
8 Oct 2009
The war on drugs is a failed policy that has injured far more people than it has protected. Around 14,000 people have died in Mexico's drug wars since the end of 2006, more than 1,000 of them in the first three months of this year. Beyond the ...
We have, it seems, led the planet into the age of ecocide. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable environmental catastrophe? To stand a chance we will need cool heads, not fiery dreams.
During the past century empires crashed, new states foundered, ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
10 Sep 2009
Western progressives nostalgic for the Soviet Union shouldnt get too excited by the global financial crisis, writes John Gray. A fine new history of communism shows why
It cannot be long before progressive opinion begins to look back on communism with ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
27 Aug 2009
The longer the criminal fraud trial of Livent Inc. co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb dragged on, the more quaint the charges against the theatre moguls seemed — even to Drabinsky. As the trial entered its sixth month, the rest of the world ...
The historian of the present Timothy Garton Ash claims to look at the world with unflinching honesty. Yet, in abandoning the idea of Enlightenment fundamentalism, he is not facing facts
There is a widely held view that print journalism is a dying ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
16 Jul 2009
The rise of China will consign our current western-centric views of modernity to history's trash heap
The 20th century was a time dominated by projects of westernisation. Contrary to the common description of the cold war as a conflict between east and ...
Contrary to what evangelical rationalists preach, it is perfectly possible both to be modern and to believe in God. But there is no reason to assume that the American religious model will prevail
Religion is proving perfectly compatible with modernity ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
21 May 2009
The spree is over, the global economy is in ruins and our political masters are in disarray. Make no mistake, writes John Gray, the neoliberal era is over but at what cost?
One of the more entertaining ironies of the global financial crisis is the ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
23 Apr 2009
His writings were a lifelong experiment in imaginative alchemy, the transmutation of senseless dross into visions of beauty
Ballard at his home in Shepperton, 1988. In the background is a favoured painting by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux
When I ...
From JOHN GRAY,
New Statesman,
23 Apr 2009
