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Jan 2021
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152. Radical Ideology and the Nihilistic...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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This episode was recorded on January 15, 2021. Douglas Murray and I discuss, among other topics, the collapse of grand narratives on the left and the right alike, the potential for the resultant explanatory and motivational void to be filled by more radical ideological ideas, and the dangers posed by the mutual recrimination that all-too-frequently character ... Show More
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