Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2023-07-06
Jordan Peterson & Andrew Doyle: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #373
The Humorless Fundamentalists of Social Justice | Andrew Doyle | EP 373
Andrew Doyle discussed On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and others. Jordan Peterson discussed Hitler by Ian Kershaw, The New Puritans by Andrew Doyle, and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On Liberty
Discussed“actually this struggle between Liberty and Authority which which John Stuart Mill talks about in his book on Liberty”
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Animal Farm
Discussed“it's precisely the reason why when he wrote Animal Farm he couldn't get it published for so long because people were horrified by the possibility that left-wing people could be authoritarian”
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Hitler
Discussed“one thing that comes out very clearly there's a great biography of Hitler by Ian Kershaw”
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The New Puritans
Discussed“you wrote a book here recently um just make sure I get title exactly right the new Puritans how the religion of social justice captured the Western World”
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Cynical Theories
Discussed“It was put like this in James Lindsay and Helen pluck Rose's book that the key question that you ask if you are a critical race theory is not a theorist is not uh did racism take place in this situation”
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The Selfish Gene
Discussed“I tweeted out about Richard Dawkins recently, and I talked to Richard Dawkins, and I actually admire him. I liked his books; they taught me a lot, including some of his essays.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The New Puritans
“and in the book I do make it clear I've called the book the new Puritans um and I refer to the religion of social justice”