Tag: democracy

• Peter Thiel and the Private Architecture of Political Power in Trump’s America

  Peter Thiel occupies an unusual position in contemporary American politics: he is not a conventional public leader, yet his influence connects Silicon Valley capital, Republican electoral strategy, libertarian ideology, surveillance technology, and increasingly apocalyptic religious language. In the political lives of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and other figures associated with the American right,…

  S. Gros

  May 31, 2026

  Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Politics

  democracy, history, news, Politics, trump

• Democracy Against the Populist Temptation

  In a 2009 lecture Slavoj Žižek developed a loosely connected but internally consistent set of claims about democratic legitimacy, the affective mechanics of populism, and the changing styles of political authority under contemporary capitalism. Speaking in a polemical yet diagnostic register, he framed his argument as a warning against the temptation to treat “the people”…

  S. Gros

  January 11, 2026

  Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis

  books, democracy, education, hegel, history, metaphysics, news, Philosophy, Politics