Getting lost on Utopia Highway.(Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia)(Book review)

The American Conservative | November 19, 2007| | Copyright

[Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, by John Gray; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 229 pages]

TO PRAISE A WRITER on American foreign affairs for being adult might seem a backhanded compliment but for the obvious puerility of so much written in this field. Mark Steyn, David Frum, and Michael Ledeen are not necessarily the names that first spring to mind in considerations of serious reasoning for grown-ups. It does credit to John Gray, London School of Economics professor and regular New York Review of Books contributor, that he takes political dogmas ...

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