Jonathan Derbyshire

Ideas

Interview with Slavoj Zizek - full transcript

• 29 October 2009
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Ideas

“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

• 29 October 2009
• 11 comments

The eminent thinker Slavoj Žižek tells Jonathan Derbyshire why he rejects mainstream political theory, why he supports Barack Obama, and why we need Marx more than ever

Books

The Books Interview: John Irving

• 22 October 2009

Against "impact"

• 19 October 2009
• 2 comments

In defence of the humanities

Deep Frieze

• 15 October 2009
• 1 comment

Where next for the global art market?

Film

The NS Interview: Terry Gilliam

• 15 October 2009
• 1 comment

“Making films is just a cheap version of being God”

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize

• 09 October 2009
• 1 comment

Celebrating medicine in literature

Centres of gravity

• 08 October 2009

The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Herta Müller

UK Politics

The meaning of conservatism

• 08 October 2009
• 3 comments

Disraeli followed Burke’s “politics of imperfection”, while Thatcher favoured Hayek’s free-market ideas. To which line of political thought are today’s Tories the heirs?

Non Fiction

The Books Interview: Peter Clarke

• 08 October 2009