Jordan Peterson is Quite Mad

A debate with Richard Dawkins reveals just how far the conservative intellectual has fallen.

by Ben Cohen

Several years ago I found Jordan Peterson to be one of the more interesting public intellectuals. He attacked ideologues on all sides of the spectrum and spent a great deal of time trying to de-radicalizing young men on the far right.

Peterson’s politics were very much in the tradition of classic liberalism, and some of his more socially co…