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Jordan Peterson

November 2024

Leading symbol of a disintegration of the right into grievance culture? Controversial psychologist Jordan Petersen is one of those behind the London conference.

Why Jordan Peterson thinks the West is going to hell

The controversial commentator’s new book argues Western civilisation is in mortal danger because people have turned to false gods.

  • John Gray

October 2024

Jordan Peterson

Guilt-mongers and hedonists: Jordan Peterson rails against society

Jordan Peterson delivered his speech via video link and did not attend a high-powered dinner on Monday night at the Opera House.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Jordan Peterson.

Bennelong restaurant preps for Jordan Peterson and ex-prime ministers

Dining with the popular online conservative sends a signal about the current state of Liberal party ideas.

  • Mark Di Stefano

November 2023

Mere prosperity does not cut it any more.

The right is out of love with capitalism

Prosperity is taken for granted and freedom is an optional extra. Conservatives are looking for a new sales pitch, and it’s not Adam Smith.

  • John Roskam

December 2022

Linda Burney sidestepped questions about the format of the Voice.

Letters: Why the Voice is long overdue

Indigenous Voice: pros and cons; ASX’s tech issue; understanding crypto; Victorian public sector super; floods and farmland; Downer and Roskam’s advice for the Liberal Party.

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The Victorian Liberals failed to appeal to young voters.

Liberals must learn that aspiration is for the young too

Jordan Peterson has no problem appealing to young people but, as demonstrated in Victoria, the Liberal Party isn’t making much headway among the under-40s.

  • John Roskam

November 2022

“There’s zero reason for conservatives to be confronted with their moral inadequacy,” Jordan Peterson told a large gathering of Coalition MPs on Thursday.

Jordan Peterson’s pep-talk to Coalition MPs on how to beat the left

The Canadian academic and author urged an invitation-only group of Liberal, National and One Nation MPs to stand their ground against the left’s “long march”.

  • Jacob Greber

July 2022

Jordan Peterson

To hell and back, how controversy almost killed Jordan Peterson

After a long hiatus from public life, the psychologist reflects on his hellish illness, identity politics and “snake-pit” Twitter.

  • Mick Brown

January 2022

Jordan Peterson believes cancel culture is eating away at university students’ ability to think, reason and argue.

Jordan Peterson was cancelled. What happened next?

Jordan Peterson, the academic cancelled by Cambridge, says political correctness is eating away at our universities - and at the West as a whole.

  • Dia Chakravarty

March 2021

For Jordan Peterson, the price of celebrity and wealth was living in a maelstrom of other people’s opinions.

Why we love, and hate, Jordan Peterson

The Canadian psychologist’s appeal is that he is every one of us who couldn’t resist that pointless Facebook argument.

  • Helen Lewis

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