John Gray

John Gray is the author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), which in 2008 received the Lannan Foundation Notable Book Award, and The Immortalization Commission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).


Reviews

Society

Mr. Brooks's Miracle Elixir

| 06.21.11

The Social Animal is an instruction manual for politicians, the chief virtue of which is that it is practically useless. Faced with geopolitical and economic upheaval, the New York Times columnist offers a reassuring refuge from reality.

Society

What Rawls Hath Wrought

| 12.16.10

The human-rights movement is nothing more than an unattainable utopian dream used to justify moral ends through ruinous wars of intervention.

Society

Philosophy for the All-Too-Common Man

| 04.20.10

A reflexive hostility to Western religion permeates the chattering classes. If only rationality ruled the day, they argue, the world would be at peace.

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June 19, 2013