Helen Lewis recently interviewed him for British GQ, Jordan Peterson: “There was plenty of motivation to take me out. It just didn't work":
I managed to watch the whole hour and 42 minutes. But I had to do it in five sittings, maybe more. Because he comes across to me as a woman-hating, whiny conservative with a grumpy style.
The December 1 issue of Der Spiegel (49:2108) has a article on Peterson that runs over seven pages, counting a full page photo of JP. The header describes Peterson as "the most influential intellectual of the Western world." They give it a Nietzschian title, "Also sprach Jordan Peterson".
Surely this is sign of the End of the World. Or at least the doom of Western Civilizaion. But Spiegel blames the label on the New York Times.
The author, Lothar Gorris, does take some ironic digs at him. For instance, he says that Peterson "has left the old format of analogue production of sense" behind him. Because who needs to actually make sense in the digital age, amirite?
On the whole, I think he gives a pretty decent description of Peterson's performance schtick and an decent glimpse at his fanboy following.
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