It's hip to be square! The myths of Jordan Peterson

Abstract

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist at the University of Toronto, who is widely regarded as the most important public intellectual alive today. His second book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, which is a runaway best-seller, is a rather uneven combination of things—part polemic, part self-help book, and part memoir. This paper examines the roots and ramifications of Peterson's one-sided critique of contemporary trends in academia and the culture at large.