S4 E23: Life at the Bottom | Theodore Dalrymple
On this episode of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, Jordan is joined by Dr. Anthony Daniels or as you might know him, Theodore Dalrymple, which is his pen name. Dr. Anthony ...
S4 E22: An Atheist in the Realm of Myth | Stephen Fry
On this episode of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, I am joined by Stephen Fry. Stephen Fry is a noted British actor, writer, comedian, political figure, journalist, poet, intellectual, and much ...
S4 E21: A Brain Divided | Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, thinker, and lecturer. He is maybe best known for his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western ...
S4 E20: The Psychology of the Psychedelics | Roland Griffiths
Dr. Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is a professor of neuroscience, psychiatry, and behavioral science and director of the Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the ...
Q&A 05-01-2021
I recently answered questions that were submitted on the social media platform – https://www.thinkspot.com. thinkspot is still in beta, and would greatly appreciate your participation. These answers were also released early on thinkspot, so if you want an earlier view of these Q&A’s you can see them on thinkspot a few days early. Some of these questions have been edited for concision and grouped together in order to answer the broader topic.
Sunday Times: Unedited Interview Transcript
Jordan, Mikhaila, and the Interviewer:
Jordan 00:00
Well, thank you for being patient. I know we’ve put you off for a long time. That couldn’t be helped. But I’m actually very happy to be doing this. And I was, weirdly enough, I didn’t expect it, but I was looking forward to it.
Interviewer 00:14
Really? I wasn’t sure how do you feel about it. Is there an element of trepidation? Or?
Jordan 00:19
Well, definitely, there’s an element of trepidation because I would say the most stressful experiences I’ve had in the last five years, apart from being in the epicenter of various demonstrations, were …
Why I (stupidly (?)) agreed to an interview request from the Sunday Times
I was recently the subject of a Sunday Times cover story written by Decca Aitkenson. Non-subscribers who wish to read it can sign up for two free articles a week here. I released the full audio of the interview on YouTube here so that anyone interested could find out for themselves what was actually said.
Given the tenor of the piece (very critical of me and even more of my daughter Mikhaila) and the fact that I have been subject to very similar unflattering coverage many times in the past it appears reasonable for even those inclined to …
Missives of Appalling Idiocy and Envy Embarrassing to Behold
So many messages of the type alluded to by the title of this article crossed my desk in the last fortnight that I found myself in the rare position of having too much content to easily record and communicate with pen and paper—a writer’s dream, if that content did not also simultaneously indicate both the tolling of the proverbial bell, and the fact that I am one of those for whom the death knell sounds.
I have observed the colleges and universities of the Western world devour themselves in a myriad of fatal errors over the last two decades, and take …