John Gray

Jul 29, 2024 | allevents.in | Aishwarya Majmudar |John Gray

For coaches and other helping professionals concerned about the climate and enabling a community-based responseAbout this EventA summer book club!Coaches Kay Young and John Gray have been very inspired by reading The Climate Majority Project – and we’ve also had the chance to meet and work with one of the editors, Rupert Read.

May 7, 2024 | modernagejournal.com | John Gray

John Gray, who taught political theory at Oxford and the London School of Economics for many decades, is one of the most notable writers on public affairs in Britain. He has often changed his political position, but underlying these changes there is a constant stance toward the world that many conservatives will find attractive (though some conservatives will not). Gray sees the world as governed by chance, indifferent to our hopes and desires.

Jan 22, 2024 | lawliberty.org | John Gray |James Hankins |Eliot A. Cohen |John O. McGinnis

State Leviathans are back, and this time they are even worse. John Gray holds little hope in his recent book The New Leviathans that a sane liberalism can prevail against the forces of hyper-liberalism in the West. Such hyper-liberalism has mutated from liberal societies and now threatens liberal democracies. Gray’s book hinges on the insights of Thomas Hobbes, one of the most primary liberal thinkers of the modern period.

Jan 15, 2024 | theamericanscholar.org | Randy Rosenthal |John Gray

The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism by John Gray; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 192 pp., $27Was Thomas Hobbes being ironic when he titled his 1651 masterpiece Leviathan? The name alludes to the mysterious sea monster mentioned a half-dozen times in the Bible: something unfathomably massive, powerful, and fearsome.

Oct 8, 2023 | unherd.com | John Gray

John Gray recently visited the UnHerd Club. Below is an edited version of his conversation with Freddie Sayers.  Freddie Sayers: Is it your view that liberal civilisation has passed into history? Like what you’re reading? Get the free UnHerd daily email Already registered? Sign inJohn Gray: Yes, and it’s not coming back. Something else might emerge — something which is new, which may revive or reinvent some elements of liberalism.