John Lanchester

"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the wor…"

"As liberals, we take freedom of the individual, or perhaps the family, as our ultimate goal in judging soci…"

"Mankind may wring her secrets from nature, and use their knowledge to destroy themselves."

"An invariable accompaniment of growth in developed countries is the shift away from agriculture, a process …"

"The certainties of one age are the problems of the next."

"It's expensive to keep Communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, …"