Dangerous Nietzsche and the Return of the Far-Right with Ronald Beiner

<p>Ronnie Beiner, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, was alarmed when one of his grad students became enamoured with the work of Russian neofascist Aleksandr Dugin.</p> <p>Beiner had assumed that far-right ideology had been consigned to the dustbin of history following WWII, but further research after his student's revelation taught him otherwise.</p> <p>He went on to write a book to elucidate the philosophical foundations of far-right ideology, Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Return of the Far-Right.</p> <p>Straight after the book was published, Beiner was confronted on twitter with a link to a 5,000-word rebuttal by a neofascist intellectual who explicitly identified him as Jewish to his followers.</p> <p>In this episode, we discuss some of the ideas and values that threaten democracy today.</p> <p>(Episode recorded on 2nd July 2021.)</p>