John Gray is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Among his recent books are Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions, and The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. His latest book, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, will be published in June 2013.
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The Real Karl Marx
May 9, 2013
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
by Jonathan Sperber
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The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek
July 12, 2012
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
by Slavoj Žižek
Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Žižek
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On the Road to Immortality
November 24, 2011
Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
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Communists and Nazis: Just as Evil?
April 8, 2010
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The Way of All Debt
April 9, 2009
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
by Margaret Atwood
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A Rescue of Religion
October 9, 2008
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers
by Leszek Kolakowski, translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska
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Are We Born Moral?
May 10, 2007
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
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The Moving Target
October 5, 2006
The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror
by George Soros
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The Case for Decency
July 13, 2006
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
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The Global Delusion
April 27, 2006
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
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The Mirage of Empire
January 12, 2006
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
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The World Is Round
August 11, 2005
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman