In an op-ed for The Atlantic published Thursday, Caitlin Flanagan explains “why the left is so afraid of Jordan Peterson.” The must-read piece is itself an example of what so obviously terrifies left-wing critics of Peterson: an intelligent, well-reasoned, and unflinching critique of identity politics, an ideology, Flanagan suggests, that has become even more militant — and vulnerable — as its “doomsday clock ticks ever closer to the end.”
Flanagan begins by describing her first encounter with Peterson’s teachings, which came by way of her teenage son, who was for some inexplicable reason watching a video of “a psychology professor at the University of Toronto talking about Canadian law”…? But it wasn’t just her teenage son who was following Peterson. “It turned out a number of his friends — all of them like him: progressive Democrats, with the full range of social positions you would expect of adolescents growing up in liberal households in blue-bubble Los Angeles — had watched the video as well, and they talked about it to one another.”
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