Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A century after the rise of Mussolini, his rhetoric of fear has returned. Best-selling Italian novelist Antonio Scurati explains why people are nowadays attracted to populist leaders.

Clip from the Nexus Conference 2023, 'Nietzsche and Van Gogh discuss the Future of Western Civilization'. Find the full debate on our website: https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/video/a-sense-of-reality