Rex Murphy is a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters. He was the regular host of CBC Radio One's Cross Country Checkup, a nation wide call-in show, for 21 years, before stepping down in September of 2015. He currently writes for The National Post, where his articles are published weekly. In this episode, Rex Murphy and I discuss the strange times in current Canadian politics, the perpetual scandals of Justin Trudeau, media censorship and the appalli...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep 267•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Dave Rubin and I discuss the evolution of his lifestyle, the recent Leftist push of transgender ideology and the uncharted territory of gay fatherhood.
Jun 30, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Ep 266•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Adrian Wooldridge is a political editor at The Economist and author of the new book ‘The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.’ In this episode, Dr. Wooldridge and I discuss how his new book has been received, the history of meritocracy, how IQ testing shaped educational policy, group-based judgement, and the importance of defending liberal individualism. —Links— Follow Dr. Wooldridge on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adwooldridge ‘The Aristocracy of Talent: How Merit...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep 265•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, we continue our dive into Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. This compilation episode is focused on Rule 2: "Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that." It includes interviews with Dave Rubin, Tom Bilyeu, Chris Williamson, and more. Videos Included: 00:00 - Rule 2 Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life - 02:27 - Rubin Report: An Emotional Return & 12 More Rules for Life 12:47 - Aubrey Marcus: Jordan Petersons' EMPOWERING ME...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 264•Transcript available on Metacast This past Sunday was Father’s Day. In this episode, I discuss my family history, relationships, growing up, learning to read and write, raising children, and marriage with my father Walter Peterson. —Links— Try our new writing app, Essay: https://essay.app Or take the Understand Myself personality test: https://understandmyself.com —Chapters— [0:00] Intro [1:00] The story of the 3rd floor [3:32] Family settling in Saskatchewan [8:57] Breaking 10 acres [10:42] Jordan’s grandfather [12:00] Walter'...
Jun 20, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Ep 268•Transcript available on Metacast We had the honor of having our dear friend Jonathan Pageau host this Beyond Order lecture in Montreal on May 23rd, 2022. Jonathan opens the show by describing how he first heard (and subsequently met) Jordan. This event, then, serves as a continuation of the conversations they first had. Throughout this hour-and-a-half-long event, Dr. Peterson and Jonathan Pageau discuss perception, symbolism, values, and the relationship between perception and the cognitive scientist’s attempts to understand co...
Jun 16, 2022•2 hr 46 min•Ep 262•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Warren Farrell is a political scientist, activist, speaker, and author of The Boy Crisis. He has been interviewed by Oprah, Barbara Walters, Tucker Carlson, Peter Jennings, and many others. Dr. Farrell conducts communication workshops, and his writings have been frequently featured in The New York Times. In this episode, Dr. Farrell and I discuss issues that lead to mass homicides committed by young men. We also talk about child-rearing and boundary enforcement, discriminating between male c...
Jun 13, 2022•2 hr 52 min•Ep 261•Transcript available on Metacast This compilation showcases clips surrounding Rule 1 from Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.” These conversations feature the likes of Steven Pinker, Theo Von, Jonathan Haidt, Ben Shapiro, and more. We hope you enjoy part 2/14 of this compilation series! —Chapters— [0:00] Rule 1: Beyond Order [2:46] The Rubin Report: An Emotional Return [9:09] Juliette Fogra, Illustrator [16:51] Identity Building, Chaos, & Impact Theory ...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep 260•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Mikhaila Peterson interviews Julian Peterson and Dr. Peterson. Julian introduces himself and we have a conversation about life, family, and our new writing platform, https://essay.app. Sign up to try Essay: https://essay.app Dr. Peterson’s writing guide: https://essay.app/guide Julian’s EP ‘Sight’ and other links: https://linktr.ee/julianpeterson —Chapters— 0:00 — Intro 1:48 — Julian & Privacy 3:49 — Software Testing 6:51 — Dvorak Keyboard 10:50 — Benefits & Challenges Due to Jo...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep 259•Transcript available on Metacast In this compilation, we are showcasing clips from Dr. Peterson being interviewed about his latest book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. Ranging from Tim Ferriss to Theo Von, this media tour served as a great platform to speak with public figures from all over the internet. Please enjoy!
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 258•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on April 28th, 2022. Vishal Mangalwadi and I discuss the history of India and the role the Bible played in shaping it as a country. We explore the influence of missionaries, India's caste system, power, the impact of the British empire on slavery, widow burning and infanticide, the revolutionary nature of the distribution of the Bible, and more. Vishal Mangalwadi is a social reformer, political columnist, Indian Christian philosopher, writer, and lecturer. He is the aut...
May 30, 2022•2 hr 47 min•Ep 257•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, theorist, and one of the world’s foremost atheists. In this episode, Dr. Dawkins and I discuss religion, psychedelics, consciousness, symbolism, postmodernism, and the importance of objective truth. Links: To follow Dawkins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins Website: https://richarddawkins.com/ Read Dawkins’ articles: https://richarddawkins.com/articles To donate to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science: https:/...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep 256•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on December 28th, 2021. In this episode, Hamza Yusuf and I discuss the core beliefs of Islam, Hamza’s conversion, the importance of bridging religions, and the problem with our culture now. Hamza Yusuf is an American neo-traditionalist Islamic scholar, co-founder of Zaytuna College, and the author of seven books, including Purification of Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart, Agenda to Change our Condition, and The Marvels of the Hear...
May 23, 2022•2 hr 34 min•Ep 255•Transcript available on Metacast In the finale of the Adventures of Pinocchio and Free Speech series, we visit many different episodes of this podcast. From the UK to the US and from Cambridge to Canada; we are fighting against the (not so) slow erosion of one of the most powerful forces that many would consider inalienable. The power with which God created the world. The power that can combine a family through marriage or tear it apart through war. The spoken and written word. The pen is mightier than the sword. —Links— Unders...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 254•Transcript available on Metacast This conversation was recorded on May 9, 2022. Pierre Poilievre, a life-long conservative, is running to be the Prime Minister of Canada. Pierre has served as a trusted senior cabinet minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government and has served as a Member of Parliament for seven terms. He grew up in Calgary and graduated from the University of Calgary with a degree in International Relations. We discussed his election efforts, Canada’s energy infrastructure and economic policy, as well...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep 253•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on April 4, 2022. I discussed gratitude, faith, and suffering in this conversation at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. How can we be sure that pain is a solid guiding principle as we navigate the world? What is the underlying structure of pain, and what does it point at? We also touched on a myriad of topics around those central themes, such as sin and the symbol of the snake, giving advice, resurrection, the relationship between faith and suffering, evil, the...
May 12, 2022•58 min•Ep 252•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on April 4, 2022. In this speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Jordan shared recent thoughts on ethics, scripture, and the problem of perception. He asked the audience to reflect on how we remember great stories (but seem to instantly forget bad ones), why Western culture ended up being a book (instead of—say—a sickle), and whether the West truly is a “phallogocentric" culture. All of this, Jordan says, tied to a broader possibility—perhaps his “most rad...
May 09, 2022•55 min•Ep 251•Transcript available on Metacast In part 3 of this 4-part series on the relationship between the freedom of speech and the ability to speak itself. We go deep into the belly of the whale in this episode, and it ends up with us briefly touching on the subject of the next and final episode. The redemptive power of true speech. Time Codes: [00:00:00] Nietzsche and returning to nothing - 2015 Personality Lecture 06: Depth Psychology: Carl Jung (Part 01) [0:02:52] The difficulty of change in the university and being silent - James O...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep 250•Transcript available on Metacast This conversation was recorded on September 1, 2021. I spoke to Richard Wrangham about his research on ape behavior. We explored prerequisites for chimp attacks, how cooking shaped human cognitive development, studying chimps in the wild with Jane Goodall, DNA similarity studies, proactive vs. reactive aggression, and more. Richard is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, and culture. He’s also a MacArthur fello...
May 02, 2022•2 hr 46 min•Ep 249•Transcript available on Metacast The right to speak is critically important to allow our civilization not only to thrive but to survive. In part 2 of this compilation, we examine the power of free speech and potential responses to censorship. After a lecture excerpt on the “initial defeat of the hero,” we transition into podcast clips on hate crime laws, the idea behind 'No Safe Spaces,’ and the events that lead Paul Rossi, a NY private school teacher, to take a stand against seminars on "white dominant culture" being taught as...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 248•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on March 14th, 2022. In this episode, Douglas Murray and I discuss the current assault on the West, slavery, gratitude, racist mathematics, whiteness, (non-Western) accomplishments, and individual sovereignty. Douglas Murray is the associate editor of The Spectator and the bestselling author of seven books, including The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam; The Madness of Crowds, and The War on the West. —Links— Follow Murray on Twitter: https://twitte...
Apr 25, 2022•2 hr 52 min•Ep 252•Transcript available on Metacast Utilizing Dr. Peterson’s lectures from the 2015 and 2017 Maps of Meaning Lectures as a framework; we have continued the investigation while adding conversations from the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, as well as from conversations where Dr. Peterson was a guest on other podcasts. We recently decided to move this compilation up in our release queue because of Dr. Peterson’s recent lecture at Caius College at the University of Cambridge, “Why Free Speech is the Antidote to Our Problems” You can view t...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 246•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on October 12, 2021 Dr. Glenn Loury and I discuss the Pareto principle, the economics of inequality, PC culture, climate change, race in America, IQ and The Bell Curve, intelligence vs. wisdom, AA meetings, Christianity, and more. Dr. Glenn Loury is an American economist, academic, and author. In 1982, he became the first African American tenured professor of economics at Harvard. Among Dr. Loury’s published works are The Anatomy of Racial Inequality and Race, Incarcera...
Apr 18, 2022•2 hr 46 min•Ep 244•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Peterson recently traveled to the UK for a series of lectures at the highly esteemed Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This conversation was recorded during that period with Sir Roger Penrose, a British mathematical physicist who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for “discovering that black hole formation is a robust predictor of Einstein’s general relativity.” Moderated by Dr. Stephen Blackwood. ___________ Chapters ___________ [0:00] Intro [1:00] Is Consciousness Computationa...
Apr 14, 2022•2 hr 41 min•Ep 244•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on October 29th, 2021. Claire Lehmann and talk about the success of Quillette magazine, left-wing authoritarianism, gender dysphoria, mentorship, stereotypes, social media, ingroup preference, moral reasoning, aggressive empathy, and more. Claire Lehmann is the founding editor of Quillette magazine. She works with journalists whose kind of content or views make finding a platform difficult. Quillette has published exciting articles by Coleman Hughes, Rav Arora, Rob Hend...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep 243•Transcript available on Metacast In November 2021, Dr. Peterson traveled to the United Kingdom to give a series of lectures at Oxford and Cambridge. This lecture was given at Lady Mitchell Hall at the University of Cambridge on November 23rd, 2021. Dr. Peterson gives an in-depth exploration of the problem of perception. In doing so, he touches on orienting reflexes, artificial intelligence, the infinite possibilities parsed by perception, neurophysiology, postmodernism, and the relationship between imitation, awe, and the divin...
Apr 07, 2022•2 hr 32 min•Ep 242•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on September 27th, 2021. Dr. Jordan Peterson and John McWhorter exchange ideas on the field of linguistics, how language affects our worldview, music, children’s capacity to learn languages, race problems in the US, virtue signaling, wokeism, Chomsky’s universal grammar, and more. John Mcwhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Professor McWhorter is an author of more than a dozen books including ‘The Power of Babel...
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep 241•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded at Caius College on November 22, 2021. Dr. Peterson recently traveled to the UK for a series of lectures at the highly esteemed Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This was the first of said lectures. After some remarks on Cambridge’s beauty and rich history, Dr. Peterson examines the significance and history of clinical psychology. Drawing from the likes of Carl Rogers, Freud, Maslow, and Jung, this lecture investigates free speech, the value of structure, ways to approach mental ill...
Mar 31, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Ep 240•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on November 8th, 2021 Andy Ngo is an independent journalist and photographer who lives under constant threats for his reporting and expertise on American Antifa and the militant far-left. He has testified before the U.S. Congress, appeared on countless TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Newsweek, Fox News, National Review, and more. Andy is currently the editor-at-large at the Post Millennial. In this...
Mar 28, 2022•2 hr 36 min•Ep 239•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was recorded on March 15th, 2022. Rex Murphy and I discuss Canadian bill 67, which purports to be nothing but an "anti-racist" bill but is in fact the most pernicious piece of legislation that Canadian governance has tried to push since bill C-16. Rex Murphy is a Canadian commentator and author who deals primarily with Canadian political and social matters. He is best known for hosting CBC Radio 1’s Cross Country Checkup and writing for The National Post. Rex is a very well recogniz...
Mar 25, 2022•55 min•Ep 238•Transcript available on Metacast 
