Welcome to the science salon podcast. I'm your host Michael Schirmer. Today's

podcast is a solo podcast. I'm not in conversation with anybody and I'm not doing

an AMA instead I'm going to do a reading, hopefully a dramatic reading of my essay,

Have Arotype Will Travel, the Jordan Peterson phenomenon.

This essay appears in my book,

Giving the Devil is Due.

It's the Penel to Mett essay.

I wanted to comment on Jordan because when I wrote that he had he was sort of at the pinnacle of his fame.

He has since gone through many personal issues, cancer with his wife and and medical problems with his daughter, and then his own issues,

both physically and mentally. And he's made something of a comeback now, and he has a new book out more another 12 rules for life.

I forget the exact title.

Kind of a sequel to his 12 rules for life which I have here.

And so I thought I'd make a few comments before I read this essay because of course he got hammered

in the media for just announcing he was going to write another book and it's being

published by Penguin Random House one of the largest publishing houses in the world and

apparently many of the employees were upset about this. In part I think because it's the

pretty strongly woke employees and maybe they forget that Penguin Random House is a for-profit

company. Of course they're going to publish a book that is likely to sell millions of

copies. To which I suppose they would respond, well, you know,

would they publish MindComf if it sold millions of copies? Well, of course they wouldn't,

but and that's the problem Jordan Peterson is not

Adolf Hitler despite the fact that a lot of his critics seem to think he is I'm

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