Jordan Peterson: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars
Virtually every freedom that you have in life that’s true freedom, is purchased at the price of discipline.
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Jordan Peterson, author of the best-selling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, may be one of the most famous intellectuals in North America today. He also may be among the most misunderstood. His fans say that he’s saved their lives, and detractors say that he’s the gateway drug to the alt-right. Who is this psychologist-philosopher whom so many of us had never heard of two years ago, and what does he really believe?
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