Peggy Noonan on Jordan Peterson’s morality

In The Wall Street Journal, she asks: “Who’s Afraid of Jordan Peterson?”

“What could a grown-up, seemingly stable professor (former associate professor of psychology at Harvard, full professor for 20 years at the University of Toronto) stand for that would make a journalist want to annihilate him on live TV—or, failing that, to diminish him or make him into a figure of fun?”

Related: Jordan Peterson and my 90-minute conversation about the philosophy, psychology, and politics of postmodernism, embedded below or viewable at at YouTube.

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Related: My Wall Street Journal article on personal morality: “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life.”

“We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted.

“It can almost seem like entrepreneurs are a breed apart. But they’re not. All of us are born with the ability to take risks, think creatively and challenge the everyday way of doing things. And as hokey as this can sound, we would all do well to tap into those traits in both our lives and our careers, whether we work for ourselves or not …”

Read more here.

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