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From servitude to freedom. Or was it the other way round?
“Towards the end of his life Stanley Baldwin was asked whether his career in politics had been guided by the ideas of any political thinker. Perhaps surprisingly, since the former Conservative prime...
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John Gray on our obsession with endings
“Eventually every utopian project comes to grief. And while it started as a benign creation, the European project has long since acquired an unmistakably utopian quality. The efforts that are being...
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John Gray reviews five of his favourite books at The Browser. A few extracts from the conversation to whet your appetite: “I would call a project utopian if it can be known with reasonable confidence...
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Less than nothing: Gray on Zizek
In a NYRB review of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism and Living in the End Times, John Gray takes a serious look at the work of Slavoj Zizek. An excerpt from the...
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