Swatting the Impish Gadfly

Throughout the George W. Bush and Obama eras, Slovenian-American Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek made a name for himself as a gadfly, stinging his fellow leftists who, he argued, were enraptured by political correctness, and abandoning the Marxist and egalitarian roots of the Left. Quoting from conservative figures such as T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton, as well as writing positively of a Marxism-inflected Christian theology, Žižek largely broke the mold of leftist writers whose works primarily derided conservatives and Christians.