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Jordan Peterson The French government, supported by its intellectual elite, recently opened a new front in the cultural wars, shorthand for the left-right clash among the chattering classes. The French objected to an “invasion” of American ideas into its universities. The irony was that these ideas, described as critical theory in race, gender, colonialism and much else, arose from French postmodernism that flourished after World War II. It turned the Marxist class struggle into one of power exercised by a patriarchal, white supremacist system over its oppressed victims. The...

  and pregnancies, 284, 319   who don’t want children, 283-284 And I think this one is a little more ideological. Rule I is: Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. The notion that existing institutions, hierarchies and cultural traditions encode centuries of aggregated wisdom has been the central tenet of political conservatism since Burke. It’s sometimes summarised as “Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back,” or in GK Chesterton’s famous parable of the fence, ...

Jordan Peterson The French government, supported by its intellectual elite, recently opened a new front in the cultural wars, shorthand for the left-right clash among the chattering classes. The French objected to an “invasion” of American ideas into its universities. The irony was that these ideas, described as critical theory in race, gender, colonialism and much else, arose from French postmodernism that flourished after World War II. It turned the Marxist class struggle into one of power exercised by a patriarchal, white supremacist system over its oppressed victims. The...

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Book review: More rules for life Is Jordan Peterson’s latest advice bracing and useful or merely humorless and banal? By Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian In the introduction to his new manual on how to live a meaningful life, Jordan Peterson sets the tone by recounting the hellish sequence of health crises that afflicted his family during 2019 and last year. They included his wife’s diagnosis with a rare and usually lethal form of kidney cancer, and his own downward spiral from severe anxiety and dangerously low blood pressure into benzodiazepine dependency and an acute withdrawal respons...