Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps

that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

Hello, on tonight's program in a moment, a rumbustious interview with Slavoy Sijek, the most

dangerous philosopher in the West, according to one recent description, he talks about the

value of Christianity, the importance of despair, and why he's still a communist. Also, the

future of protest, as the umbrella sitting in Hong Kong folds,

as the noise of the march on Washington against the death of Afro-Americans can still be heard,

and as hackers, how much more protest is now online,

liberate Sony Corporation's emails, spilling them across the world.

Beatrix Campbell, Douglas Carswell, and Gabriella Coleman, join me for that.

Plus.

The curtain's just coming down on the Don Mar's new production of City of Angels.

A musical I remember with great pleasure.

Jazz score, film noir, all in L.A., we'll review it later. But first, Slavot-Zeghezegh.

He's a hard one to pin down. An atheist who's written books in praise of Christianity. A communist

who believes that the inherited left ideas of the 20th century

need to be abandoned, a philosopher as interested in Alfred Hitchcock as Hegel.

His new book, Trouble in Paradise, is characteristically and modestly subtitled

from the end of history to the end of capitalism.

When I talked to him down the line from Ljubljana, he is Slovenian,

I began by saying that the great icon of communism was the clenched fist.

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