There is plenty here of interest, but the truth remains that this is really just a collection of essays cobbled together and put between two covers in order to give them a second life in the market. This is not a book about 'post-liberalism', in other words, but rather a semi-random selection of John Gray's more scholarly, academic musings roughly from the period 1987-1993. Some of them are worth reading. Many - particularly those in which Gray was tempted to make unwise predictions about the future - really aren't.