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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek

Writing for PS since 2022
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Slavoj Žižek, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School, is International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author, most recently, of Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).

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  1. Fundamentalist Perverts
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    Fundamentalist Perverts

    Jan 9, 2025 Slavoj Žižek regards most violent religious conservatism as merely an inauthentic expression of resentment.

  2. What Did We Miss in Syria?
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    What Did We Miss in Syria?

    Dec 13, 2024 Slavoj Žižek thinks the prosperous West no longer understands what genuine political struggle looks like.

  3. Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons?
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    Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons?

    Nov 22, 2024 Slavoj Žižek dismisses the idea that firing Western missiles at Russian targets represents a dangerous escalation.

  4. Saving Democracy from Itself
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    Saving Democracy from Itself

    Oct 25, 2024 Slavoj Žižek applauds French President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvering to keep the far right at bay.

  5. Nothing New on the Middle Eastern Front
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    Nothing New on the Middle Eastern Front

    Oct 7, 2024 Slavoj Žižek sees developments in the year since October 7, 2023, as the logical realization of long-standing potentialities.

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    Trump’s Industrial Policy Is More Continuity Than Disruption

    Elisabeth Reynolds thinks that rebuilding America’s manufacturing base has become a central pillar of the US economic agenda.
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    Oligarchy in America

    Though Donald Trump attracted more support than ever from working-class voters in the 2024 US presidential election, he has long embraced an agenda that benefits the wealthiest Americans above all. During his second term, however, Trump seems committed not just to serving America’s ultra-rich, but to letting them wield state power themselves.

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    Give the UK Growth Agenda a Chance

    Mohamed A. El-Erian sees promise in the current government’s economic-policy plan despite its imperfections.
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    Islam on Trial in India

    Shashi Tharoor warns that efforts to replace centuries-old mosques with Hindu temples could trigger communal violence.
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    Will Crypto Save the Dollar?

    Lucrezia Reichlin asks whether the Trump administration's stablecoin strategy can preserve the greenback's global hegemony.
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    The Tragedy of Zhou Enlai

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    The reputation of China's longest-serving premier has fared far better than that of the Maoist regime he faithfully served. Zhou's political survival skills enabled him to survive many purges, and even to steer Mao away from potential disasters, but he could not escape the Chairman's cruelty, even at the end of his life.

    reflects on the complicated life and legacy of the renowned diplomat who was Mao Zedong’s dutiful lieutenant.
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    How Liberals Lost America

    Andrés Velasco attributes Donald Trump’s return to power to Democrats’ embrace of both moral neutrality and moral preachiness.
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    Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork say that the government's justifications for its war profiteering are disingenuous and short-sighted.
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    Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?

    Amar Bhidé explains what a purported Chinese AI breakthrough does and does not mean for the industry.

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