Slavoj Zizek on Trump, Capitalism, and the Left's Global Crisis

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 10, 2016

Slavoj Zizek, Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, political activist, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, professor of German at New York University and the author of Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail (Melville House, 2016), discusses his new book about the refugee crisis and terrorism on a global scale and his support for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

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