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#CANADA: The freedom of speech in practice for Mark Steyn and Jordan Peterson. Conrad Black National Post

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#CANADA: The freedom of speech in practice for Mark Steyn and Jordan Peterson. Conrad Black National Post
https://nationalpost.com/author/cblacknp/

1910 Ottawa

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a

0:28.0

is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:30.0

I welcome Conrad Black,

0:32.0

Distinguished Bographer, the author of the new book,

0:35.0

the political and strategic history of the world, volume one, from Antiquity to the Caesars 14 AD.

0:41.0

I am at the part where the Gracai are dead and Marius is ranging very effectively as a general and as a man of the people.

0:50.8

Ahead of me is Sulla.

0:52.8

All of these details are the way I'm reading your book, Conrad, which is to open it random,

0:58.9

and start into the Roman part of your book.

1:02.4

I will get to the Greeks eventually of your book.

1:02.5

I will get to the Greeks eventually.

1:04.1

So congratulations that I'm going to take you

1:06.6

from the first and second century B.C.

1:09.5

All the way to the 21st century of the common era because you have a new column up about public

1:16.3

men and how they fare in Canada. Most importantly the public men are Mark Stein, distinguished essayist, and Jordan Peterson, distinguished psychologist and public speaker.

1:29.0

And yourself, Conrad, a distinguished biographer and public speaker.

1:33.0

What I learned from your column is that Mark Stein is being persecuted by Michael

1:38.0

a man I'd forgotten entirely about, entirely about because of the the contraband of these last years but apparently he's

1:46.7

pursuing the idea that he's been defamed by Mark Stein because of the hockey stick I'll ask you about this in a moment a hockey stick and global

1:56.0

warming in the case of Jordan Peterson he's being challenged by his peers as

2:01.2

psychologist peers in some fashion being required to re-educate himself

2:06.2

about how to speak to the public, a man with five million followers.

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