Hailed by "Kirkus Reviews" as both a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster and a powerful challenge to economic orthodoxy, "False Dawn" shows that the attempt to impose the Anglo-American-style free market on the world will create a disaster, possibly on the scale of Soviet communism. Even America, the supposed flagship of the new civilization, risks moral and social disintegration as it loses ground to other cultures that have never forgotten that the market works best when it is embedded in society. John Gray, well known in the 1980s as an important...

Following on the heels of the widely hailed "False Dawn," this new work by John Gray, &;ldquo;one of Britain s leading intellectuals ("The Wall Street Journal"), offers a thoughtful and provocative analysis of the failure of classical liberalism to keep up with the complex political realities of today s increasingly divided world.

"Two Faces of Liberalism" argues that, from its inception, liberalism contained two contradictory philosophies of tolerance. In one, it advanced the enlightenment project of a universal civilization. In the other, it framed terms for peaceful coexistence...

While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization s transnational capital flows and open borders. Indeed, according to Gray, Al Qaeda s utopian zeal to remake the world in its own image descends from the same Enlightenment creed that informed both the disastrous Soviet experiment and the new neoliberal dream of a global free market.

In this excellent short...