View this link:

http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=097a31f3-c440-4b10-8894-14197d7a6eef

The New Republic has a great essay on Zizek:

The cover of his book The Parallax View reproduces a Socialist Realist portrait of “Lenin at the Smolny Institute,” in the ironically unironic fashion made familiar by the pseudo-iconoclastic work of Komar and Melamid, Cai Guo-Jiang, and other post-Soviet, post-Mao artists. He, too, expects you to be in on the joke. But there is a difference between Zizek and the other jokesters. It is that he is not really joking.

It’s great to finally see someone decrying the threat Zizek poses to liberalism. All too frequently he slips by the radar under the guise of ironic postmodern humor. This distracts many vigilant liberals—but not Adam Kirsch—from understanding Zizek’s true—deadly—purpose. But it may be too late.

Of course Kirsch is right, but not for any of the reasons he thinks he is.

Via Adam Kotsko.