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Jan 2021
1h 52m

152. Radical Ideology and the Nihilistic...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
About this episode
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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