11-minute read No one attracts criticism like Jordan Peterson. Since his emergence as a public intellectual in 2016, Peterson has been accused of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and right-wing conspiracy theorising. He stands apart from the other members of the so-called ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, his name a by-word for everything that is supposedly […]
The psychology of world citizenship
13-minute read In the early 1970s Henri Tajfel and his team of psychologists at Bristol University carried out a landmark study into social categorisation and its effects on intergroup behaviour. Tajfel had lost his entire family in the Nazi Holocaust, and so this was a subject that had always haunted him. In his most […]
Social Justice Warriors: a cult by any other name
14-minute read “It was the darkest chapter of my life… I’ve pinned down four core features that make it so disturbing: dogmatism, groupthink, a crusader mentality, and anti-intellectualism… Every minor heresy inches you further away from the group. People are reluctant to say that anything is too radical for fear of being seen […]
The conflict at the heart of science
11-minute read The Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson only eats beef. Literally just beef, he says, and nothing else at all: no vegetables; no fruit; no carbs; no meat that isn’t beef. Peterson has been following the example of his daughter Mikhaila, who suffers from an autoimmune disorder so severe that she needed hip and ankle […]