Johann Hari

Johann Hari: The art of subverting the Enlightenment

Published: 05 February 2007

The Chapman brothers' declared aim is an old one, offered by fascists and priests for the past 300 years

Johann Hari: Bring back conscription (even for me)

Published: 01 February 2007

Would MPs have backed the war if they had known their kids would end up on the streets of Mosul?

Johann Hari: The real solution to our prisons crisis

Published: 29 January 2007

In Wormwood Scrubs I met Anthony. He had brain damage and asked me if I was his father

Johann Hari: The last gasp of the global warming deniers

Published: 25 January 2007

They are beached on the shores of the wrong side of history, now abandoned even by Bush

Johann Hari: Jaded contempt for the working class

Published: 22 January 2007

By any tangible measure, the white working class is the least racist part of British society

Johann Hari: Planting trees won't offset jetting to the sun

Published: 18 January 2007

If you fly one way, one time to Miami, you emit more greenhouse gases than the average SUV driver in a year

Johann Hari: When the Government acts, why do we always assume there is something to fear?

Published: 15 January 2007

Once the DNA database became available, police found hundreds of rapists and jailed them

Johann Hari: Would you trade your privacy for a palace?

Published: 11 January 2007

Monarchists should recognise that their institution has become too cruel to sustain

Johann Hari: The real reason there are more rats than ever

Published: 08 January 2007

The right-wing press has tried bizarrely to blame environmentalists for the rise

Johann Hari: The intriguing tale of the gay sheep

Published: 04 January 2007

This is the first hard evidence of biological differences between gay and straight mammals

Johann Hari: It may please many Iraqis, but it's still wrong

Published: 01 January 2007

I cannot find a morally justifiable explanation for my glee at Saddam's death

Johann Hari: These political donation scandals will keep happening until parties have state funding

Published: 29 December 2006

We have a chance to buy back our politicians from the rich and set them to work for us

Johann Hari: Six good reasons for feeling cheerful

Published: 26 December 2006

Reason to Roar Number Two: The hole in the ozone layer is beginning to heal

Johann Hari: I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Published: 21 December 2006

Far better to worship Mammon than to waste our time worshipping a supernatural being

Johann Hari: If Israel and its Western allies break Hamas, they will face an even deadlier foe

Published: 18 December 2006

These crazed young men - the 'troops' of Islamic Jihad - are the children of the first Intifada

Johann Hari: Will Gaza, like Iraq, descend into civil war?

Published: 14 December 2006

The people fear that, like animals trapped in a tiny cage, they will turn on each other

Johann Hari: The lies being told about Hugo Chavez

Published: 11 December 2006

In his presidency, the proportion of Venezuela's GDP in the private sector has actually increased

Johann Hari: Is that the echo of Bush? No, it's Cameron

Published: 06 December 2006

Voters may not know every policy detail, but they can smell that the Tory transformation is fake

Johann Hari: Back to the future... Russia, a totalitarian regime picking off its dissidents one by one

Published: 27 November 2006

This is a way of saying to all critics of Putin: wherever you are, we can get you and you will die in agony

Johann Hari: So why has this suicidal shift happened?

Published: 25 November 2006

Over the past five years, the gay community has been keeping a secret: unprotected sex is becoming normal again. In the dark room of any gay club, in those pre-sex conversations, one question - "do you bareback?" - has become casual, ordinary, every day. The defenders of this "raw" sex see condoms as sissy and prissy, and brag that playing Russian roulette with their genitals is "manly". The Gay Men's Sexual Survey found that 60 per cent of gay men sometimes have unprotected sex - and HIV statistics released this week are merely a predictable coda to this cultural shift.

Johann Hari: The one reason I will miss Milton Friedman

Published: 23 November 2006

Over 40 years, he made the smartest case for the full legalisation of drugs that we have seen

Johann Hari: Ethnic cleansing returns to Israel's agenda

Published: 13 November 2006

The silence over Lieberman's appointment is a bleak sign of how far Israel has drifted to the right

Johann Hari: Beware this tartan timebomb

Published: 09 November 2006

Incredible as it sounds, a boy born in Glasgow today has a lower life expectancy than a boy born in Gaza

Johann Hari: Global warming is good - for oil companies

Published: 06 November 2006

There is a remarkable, untold story unfolding in one of the darkest parts of the planet

Johann Hari: The ballot that could change US politics

Published: 02 November 2006

Next week, buried in the Democrat resurgence, will be a result that might well have greater consequences