This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber.
Žižek gives a harsh verdict on Donald Trump, calling him a “postmodern obscenity”. Žižek criticises the US president’s treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, and his referring to Justin Trudeau as “governor” as if Canada were a state of America. Nevertheless, he wonders, does the left need a Trump figure?
Žižek also discusses fatherhood and Netflix’s Adolescence, as awareness grows around young male radicalisation via the “manosphere”. He also talks about feminism and his criticisms of #MeToo.
Plus, with the release of Žižek’s latest book, in which he argues that the left has hit its “zero point”, is there any hope for its recovery? He draws a through line from the left-wingers of 1968 to the politics and personality of Elon Musk—and gives his analysis on Keir Starmer’s Labour as a “moderate, centre-right party” wrestling with the populist right.
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