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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, we discuss some of the ideas and values that threaten democracy today.

(Episode recorded on 2nd July 2021.)