John Gray

John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Among his most recent books are Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, and Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions.

From the Review

May 10, 2007: Are We Born Moral?

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc D. Hauser

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal, edited by Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober

October 5, 2006: The Moving Target

The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros

July 13, 2006: The Case for Decency

Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss

Unfinished Dialogue by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, with a foreword by Henry Hardy

Russia, Poland and Marxism: Isaiah Berlin to Andrzej Walicki, 1962–1996

April 27, 2006: The Global Delusion

Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen, translated by Jessica B. Baker

How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make It in Today's Global Economy by Suzanne Berger and the MIT Industrial Performance Center

End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation by Barry C. Lynn

January 12, 2006: The Mirage of Empire

Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan

The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century by Michael Mandelbaum

August 11, 2005: The World Is Round

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

From New York Review Books

The Engagement One of the most chilling and compassionate of Simenon's extraordinary psychological novels, The Engagement explores the mystery of a blameless heart in a compromised soul.