Hey there, I'm Jason Gots and you're listening to Think Again a Big Think podcast.

Since the early days of the public internet, Big Think has curated more than 10,000 surprising, brain bending, significant ideas, and shared them through video, text, and social media.

On the Think Again podcast, we

remixed this formula, surprising me and my guests with conversation topics that we

didn't necessarily come here prepared to discuss. Today I'm very excited to be

here with Slavoie Zhijek. He's a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian

psychoanalyst, and political activist. He's the interact... You dropped communist political activists.

And a communist political...

Not intentionally. It wasn't in the back of your book.

Maybe your publisher dropped it.

The political court will establish your responsibility.

It's not up to you to decide.

Okay, fair enough. Fair enough.

He's the International Director of the Burbeck Institute for the Humanities,

Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University,

and his newest book is Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors Against the Double Black Male.

Welcome to think against, lovely.

I'm glad to be here again.

I'm so glad to have you.

Today, while we're recording this, I mean, this will come

out a week later, but we were voting in America. People are very emotional. They're very

proud. They're posting to Facebook. I had my nine-year-old son with me in the polls today.

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