Philosopher's Zone 2008-07-04
2008-07-05 - John Gray at the Writers' Festival - Part 2
The celebrated British philosopher and political theorist John Gray discusses the ways in which the Utopian aspirations of the secular left and right reflect the Christian heritage of Western political thought. From Stalinist Russia to contemporary Iraq, he argues, the road to perfection is built over the bodies of the innocent.
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