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Waller Newell,\xa0Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Carleton University,\xa0joins the show to discuss tyranny and tyrants\u2014and Vladimir Putin in particular.\xa0\n\nTimes \n\n02:05 Introduction\n\n03:43 Let's talk about Vladimir Putin\n\n05:40 What is the Russian\xa0"Soul"?\n\n07:19 Quote\xa0from "The Russian Idea"\n\n08:40 Who was Nikolai Berdyaev?\n\n09:54 Is Berdyaev an\xa0influence on Aleksandr Dugin?\n\n11:05 The West has a hard time understanding\xa0non-economic\xa0motivations. Why?\n\n13:06 Who is Aleksandr Dugin?\n\n15:21 \u201cEurasian Nationalist Bolshevism\u201d\xa0\n\n16:55 Rehabilitating Stalin\n\n18:40 Are we seeing a perpetuation of Tsarist Russia?\n\n20:40 What is fascism?\n\n22:35 The many types of tyranny\n\n25:12 What kind of tyrant is Putin?\n\n26:50 Why has\xa0millenarian tyranny appeared so relatively recently in history?\n\n29:51 The relationship between liberalism and millenarian tyranny\n\n31:25 The next ten years in Russia\n\n34:00 Did Putin know what he was getting himself into in Ukraine?\n\n35:36 The prospect of Russian and Chinese collaboration in the future\n\n36:55 Who drives Chinese policy - Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party?\n\n38:56 Staying sane while studying tyrants\n\n42:10 What should we be reading to better recognize hostile actors for what they are?