Slavoj Žižek - In These Times

Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the the Institute for Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. Žižek is the author of many books, including Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously and Trouble in Paradise.

Slavoj Zizek: We Must Rise from the Ashes of Liberal Democracy

Trump is a threat to global stability—only a new Left international can beat him.

Slavoj Zizek: Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”

On China's smog problem and the ecological crisis.

Slavoj Zizek: The Left’s Fidelity to Castro-ation

In the last decades, Cuban “socialism” continued to live only because it didn’t yet notice it was already dead.

Slavoj Zizek on Clinton, Trump and the Left’s Dilemma

To paraphrase Stalin: They are both worse.

Slavoj Žižek: Clinton, Trump and the Triumph of Global Capitalism

Why the Hillary Clinton consensus is a threat to democracy—and the Left.

Democracy’s Fascism Problem

Europe has a ‘democracy deficit’ on both the Left and the Right

Stranger Danger: To Resolve the Migrant Crisis We Must Recognize the Stranger Within Ourselves

It is such silence that really helps our racist enemies in that it feeds the distrust of ordinary people—(“You see, they are not telling us the truth!”)—boosting the credibility of racist rumors and lies.

Slavoj Zizek: The Need to Traverse the Fantasy

A call to mobilize Europe's radical-emancipatory tradition, and why we need a solidarity of struggles, not a "dialogue of cultures"

Slavoj Zizek: In the Wake of Paris Attacks the Left Must Embrace Its Radical Western Roots

Zizek responds to his critics on the refugee crisis.

Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism

The refugees won't all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist.

Slavoj Zizek: The Greek Apocalypse: Versailles or Brest-Litovsk?

A response to my critics and the case for a guerrilla war within the Eurozone

Slavoj Zizek: How Alexis Tsipras and Syriza Outmaneuvered Angela Merkel and the Eurocrats

The rebels in Greece are waging a patient guerrilla war against financial occupation.

Whither Argumentation?: A Response to Louis Nayman

Every direct reference to the exclusive right of one group, based on its mythic and historical past, is a precursor to a justification of brutal power, a version of “might is right.”

Slavoj Žižek: Whither Zionism?

In order to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we should not dwell in ancient past—we should forget it.

Slavoj Žižek: The Urgent Necessity of a Syriza Victory in Greece

Only a split from the European Union by Greece can save what is worth saving in the European legacy: democracy, trust in people and egalitarian solidarity.

Slavoj Žižek: How the United States Rolls

It's lonely being the global policeman.

Leaving Democracy to the Experts

TISA's secret trade negotiations quietly restructure our global economy.

Broken Eggs, But No Omelet

All austerity has wrought in Europe is a messy kitchen

What Europe Can Learn from Ukraine

European leftists are too quick to patronize Ukrainian protesters.

Who Is John Galt? Now We Know!

On financial meltdowns and government shutdowns.

Is There a Method to the Syrian Madness?

On radical-emancipatory movements and false rationales for war.

Deaths on the Nile

Is Egypt's revolution following the course of Iran's?

Freedom in the Cloud

Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.

What Europe’s Elites Don’t Know

When the blind are leading the blind, democracy is the victim.

Occupy Gotham City

What the Dark Night Rises says about violence, morality and people's power

Smashing the Spinning Plates

How long can the Eurocrats in Brussels keep the dinnerware in motion?

The Violent Silence of a New Beginning

The Occupy protests are important, but soon the difficult question must be answered: What social organization can replace capitalism?

Barbarism With A Human Face

‘O Earth, Pale Mother!’

A Soft Focus on War

How Hollywood hides the horrors of war.

Making the Illegal Legal

Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time.

Iran on the Brink

Warning to the Persian cat: Don’t look down!

Why Cynics Are Wrong

The sublime shock of Obama's victory

Through the Glasses Darkly

What if the between-the-lines Republican message (don't be afraid, there will be no real change) is the true illusion?

The Audacity of Rhetoric

The Ambiguous Legacy of 68

Forty years ago, what was revolutionized -- the world or capitalism?

China’s Valley of Tears

Is authoritarian capitalism the future?

The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March

The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid

The Dreams of Others

By tying the drama to a mere personal whim, The Lives of Others fails to capture the true horror of the GDR

In You More Than Yourself

The revolutionary potential of the Internet is far from self-evident

Lets be Realists, Let?s Demand the Impossible!

Why pragmatic politics are doomed to fail in the Middle East

The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos

Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency

The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape

Reality and fantasy in New Orleans

Give Iranian Nukes a Chance

In a mad world, the logic of MAD still works

Thanks, But Well Do It Ourselves

Against enlightened administration

Revenge of Global Finance

The Popes Failures

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