8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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Sean M. Smith PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy University of Toronto

'Decoding the Gurus' co-host Matthew Browne on how the tools of acquiring knowledge are being used to destroy it

Experts say social media algorithms target young men with extreme content that can lead to radicalization. Some groups are working to dismantle traditional masculinity norms in young men that they say can contribute to extremist beliefs.

A compelling exposé of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjørn Lomborg, the world’s leading global warming skeptic In this major assessment of leadin...

The hyperbolic uniformity of the leftist attack on Peterson is emblematic of the growing tendency to reduce left-of-center thought to the status of a rigidly simplistic ideology.

Behold, two idiots talking. There is no such thing as climate. Climate and everything are the same word. That’s what bothers me about the climate change types. It’s like — this is…

The following is a critique of the popular far-Right and 'self-help' guru Jordan Peterson. Most recently, Peterson argued that the State should enforce monogamy as a way to end young, male,...

That culture (ideas, religious beliefs, values, etc.) is in the last instance determined by one’s position in a class or social hierarchy.

Earlier this year, the prominent anti-communist Jordan B. Peterson released a video on himself “critiquing” our movement’s founding text…

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There are many instances in which Holocaust comparisons are inappropriate, but using the Holocaust to minimise the moral repugnance of a government’s policy is an act far more offensive to the memory of its victims

The America First Political Action Conference featured brazen and open rhetoric.

Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan made a series of stupid arguments about climate change, race, and more on 'The Joe Rogan Experience.'

“…depression and addiction are related phenomena, and … they are symptoms of a more general malaise of which the world-ending consequences may be of our own doing.”

If I had given this blog post the title “Gabor Maté VERSUS Jordan Peterson”, it might have guaranteed a few more clicks and an unlikely shot at virality. But that kind of title would re…

Hierarchies are everywhere. It is often argued that they are a social construct, invented to allow certain people (such as white men) to have power over others. But not everyone agrees. While promoting ...

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The dangerous underside of Jordan Peterson’s crusade against the humanities

New research shows how YouTube's recommendation algorithm helps to radicalize people on the far right.

Tabatha Southey delves into University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson's work and finds his secret sauce—and what makes his work unnerving

It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. Peterson rails against “softness,” arguing that men have been “pushed too hard to feminize,” like other hyper-masculinist thinkers before him who saw compassion as a vice and urged insecure men to harden their hearts against the weak (women and minorities) on the grounds that the latter were biologically and culturally inferior. Peterson’s ageless insights are, in fact, a typical, if not archetypal, product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations.

His message will strike you as either populist, reactionary or simplistic. Either way, he has hit a nerve

Four Steps That Lead Down the Road of Ignorance and Delusion

Jordan Peterson built his half-a-million dollar brand on ‘free speech’. Now his most loyal fans feel ripped off.

Understanding the reason behind his success can give us ideas on how to move forward

What a society tolerates or condones is what takes place within it

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