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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Haiti’s Proud Boys
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Mar 18, 2024 Slavoj Žižek warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.

  4. Lenin’s Lesson for Israel and Ukraine
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    Lenin’s Lesson for Israel and Ukraine

    Feb 6, 2024 Slavoj Žižek sees in the Bolshevik leader's principled pragmatism a political legacy that is relevant in many places today.

  5. The New Roots of Anti-Semitism
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    The New Roots of Anti-Semitism

    Nov 30, 2023 Slavoj Žižek worries that Zionist fundamentalism is exacerbating the problem it purports to solve.

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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.

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