Reading Widely: A Pastor Watches Slavoj Žižek vs. Jordan Peterson

Chris Nye
8 min readMay 3, 2019

In what was comically promoted as “the debate of the century” and “the Rumble in the Realm of the Mind,” two over-inflated public intellectuals (maybe the only two people who can be described as such today), Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson, squared off to debate this subject (I guess?): “Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism.” Tickets were selling for $1,500 at some point with

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Chris Nye

Living in Portland, Oregon with my wife and son. Doctoral candidate at Duke University. Author of a few books: chrisnye.co/books