The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

I mean, the two books I always recommend to people are Claire Berlinski's, 'There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.'

And Tom Evans's book, 'The Education of Ronald Reagan: His Years at General Electric.'

So this concept of, for example, being for welfare reform had a long gestation and had been dramatically accelerated by a book that Charles Murray wrote called 'Losing Ground' which proved pretty conclusively that government-inspired dependency is very destructive and particularly destructive for people who are poor.

So I read Noggle's book, I called Noggle and talked to him and the book is a scabling on ending example of the army's absolute inability to think in Vietnam.

I would say first reading a book back in 1982 by a man named Jeffrey Gray who was influenced by Norbert Viner and by General Cybernetic Theory and he regarded the hippocampus as at least as part of the central part of the brain involved in contrasting expectation, let's say the way you expect the world to lay itself out with the worry the world is actually laying itself out indicating that surprise was a what was the pro-dromat to anxiety and that anxiety in some sense was an indicator of the magnitude between the magnitude of mismatch between expectation and reality.

We start with national socialism we will then go to international socialism

we will have to impose free trade on the Chinese

our aim is to make sure that when the people come to the barricades... to make all the change the constitutional changes so that the moment they come to the barricades we will be able to crush them

the most important field of social endeavor is eugenics

I don't want to be criticized because of my policies I just want you guys to understand the broad picture

he couldn't understand the middle class... socialist who identified with the working class but was not certainly not part of it

those socialists didn't love the poor they just hated the rich

she did with the uh the pretext was that it was going to be a book review but really it was uh it was a hit piece

Camille Pallia told me once I thought this was extremely interesting I'm a great admirer of Eric Neumann who wrote a book called The Great Mother and another called The Origins in History of Consciousness and he provides a very acute and deep summary of Carl Jung's thought he was a student of Jung's and Jung wrote an introduction to The Origins in History of Consciousness and said it was the book he wished he was able to write which is pretty damn high praise and Neumann's work is analogous to your work in its symbolic language

One of my favorite books is Chesterton's book on Thomas Aquinas called St. Thomas Aquinas The Demox. And the main point of that book is that this brilliant theologian and philosopher is the champion of common sense, that the rising of the intellect to the contemplation of eternal truth on the one hand and practical living out common sense tradition on the other hand are not only not opposites they reinforce each other.