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Jul 8, 2026
Slavoj Žižek
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Independence Day address was a perfect example of ideology in the positive sense of the term. It overturned both the right-wing populist narrative of the United States and the left-wing "woke" critique with a vision that has the potential to mobilize a majority.
LJUBLJANA—Francis Fukuyama’s 1990s end-of-history thesis was the last big narrative that united the liberal-democratic West. Western liberal-democratic welfare-state capitalism, he argued, was the best possible social system. The only remaining question was empirical: Precisely when and how would other parts of the world arrive at the same model?
