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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. Assange Is Free, But Are We?
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    Assange Is Free, But Are We?

    Jun 27, 2024 Slavoj Žižek thinks the media’s complicity in covering up inconvenient truths is as deeply entrenched as ever.

  2. The Specter of Neo-Fascism Is Haunting Europe
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    The Specter of Neo-Fascism Is Haunting Europe

    Jun 18, 2024 Slavoj Žižek harbors no illusions about what the outcome of the European Parliament election means.

  3. Protests of Despair
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    Protests of Despair

    May 11, 2024 Slavoj Žižek sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.

  4. Canceling Palestine
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    Canceling Palestine

    Apr 23, 2024 Slavoj Žižek worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.

  5. No Barbarism Without Poetry
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    No Barbarism Without Poetry

    Apr 5, 2024 Slavoj Žižek considers what causes people – or entire societies – to relish spectacles of wanton cruelty.

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    Biden or Plan B?

    Ian Bremmer explains the nature and stakes of the perfect political storm now consuming the Democratic Party.
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    Britain's “Change Election” Changes Nothing

    Anatole Kaletsky explains why the biggest electoral upheaval in UK history will have limited economic and political effects.
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    The Supreme Court Is Shaking America’s Fiscal Foundations

    Aziz Huq sounds the alarm about a dangerous trend in US constitutional law that is showing no signs of abating.
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    Would the French Far Right Moderate Once in Power?

    Nouriel Roubini holds out hope that markets and European institutions might constrain a National Rally government.
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    The Global Implications of Iran’s Election

    Ana Palacio considers what a victory for the reformist candidate might mean for regional and international stability.
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    No Class War From Britain’s Most Working-Class Government

    Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman

    Labour leader Keir Starmer’s incoming cabinet has more people of working-class origin than any British cabinet that came before it, and this remarkable feature will surely bear on policymaking. However, various countervailing forces will moderate any latent impulse to veer sharply to the left.

    explain how the socioeconomic backgrounds of Labour’s cabinet members will, and will not, bear on policymaking.
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    The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?

    Carla Norrlöf

    If Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the world’s other large oil producers were to shift away from settling their oil trade in dollars, the implications for other commodity markets, global trade patterns, and financial stability would be enormous. But how plausible is this scenario in the foreseeable future?

    considers whether Saudi Arabia would ever move away from invoicing its oil trade in US dollars.
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    Democracy, What Democracy?

    Ian Buruma warns that Donald Trump’s supporters have a different understanding of government by the people.
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    Britain’s Now-or-Never Moment

    Kaushik Basu explains why increased public infrastructure investment is needed to improve the country’s economic prospects.

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