Jordan Peterson bounds back to centre stage of the outrage economy
In November, Penguin Random House Canada announced the follow-up to the Canadian psychology professor’s bestselling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Entitled Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, it is scheduled to be published in March. The announcement marked Peterson’s return to public life following a long rehab stay for benzodiazepine addiction. It also provoked a heated response from some Random House employees. One anonymous staffer described Peterson to Vice News as “an icon of hate speech”, adding: “I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him.” Pet...