Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, But Names Will Never Hurt Me

Recently the philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek contributed an essay to the website of In These Times, a lefty-progressive publication. The title: "Why Cynics Are Wrong."I'm not sure just which "cynics" Žižek has in mind. He begins by saying that he agrees with Noam Chomsky that "From a pragmatic-realistic perspective, it is quite possible that Obama will just do some minor