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For the Sake of Dreams

For the Sake of Dreams

Ballarding

Liberals today would benefit from injecting a dose of Marxian materialism into their thinking…

Liberals today would benefit from injecting a dose of Marxian materialism into their thinking…

The 68ers

The 68ers

Gray Burns Pinker

The Modest Proposal leaves the human story a dark and senseless farce…

The Modest Proposal leaves the human story a dark and senseless farce…

As China has embraced a type of capitalism, original editions of the Little Red Book have become a scarce commodity…

As China has embraced a type of capitalism, original editions of the Little Red Book have become a scarce commodity…

John Gray’s incessant pessimism about humanity has produced its own form of teleology…

John Gray’s incessant pessimism about humanity has produced its own form of teleology…

Never

What matters for Hitchens is the world-transforming revolutionary impulse that animated both experiments…

Crowded

‘After all, everyone wants to go on living – or so Hobbes wanted to believe’

‘After all, everyone wants to go on living – or so Hobbes wanted to believe’

John Gray: Immortality

What does Sunday want?

‘We live not in one world, but indefinitely many’

John Gray on unreality as the defining feature of the past decade’s in vogue ideas

‘the type of economics dominant over the past two decades… has been useful neither in making predictions nor in responding to unforeseen developments’