The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

He says if you set up human beings, so they had nothing to do but lie around in warm pools of water and busy themselves with the propagation of the race and eat cakes nonstop. So the land of milk and honey in the narrowest possible sense, the first thing that we would do is set about the place, smashing it up just so something unpredictable could happen so that we would have our adventure and I read that and I thought, man, that's so deadly right is that he said human beings are ungrateful and we concurse.

And in form Drmer and Nate and Sharanski co authored the best selling The Case For Democracy, the power of freedom to overcome tyranny and terror, which has been translated into 10 languages.

They didn't translate Herzl who is the visionary of modern Zionism, they didn't translate his Jewish state, his famous book into Arabic and you didn't see a wave of Zionism spread across the sands of Arabia.

He's also written The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cool It How to Spend $75 billion to make the world a better place, which is a fascinating read.

The Nobel laureates guide to the smartest targets for the world, 2016-2030 and prioritizing development, a cost-benefit analysis of the UN's sustainable development goals.

The Nobel laureates guide to the smartest targets for the world, 2016-2030 and Prioritizing Development, a cost-benefit analysis of the UN's sustainable development goals.

Greg Herwitz, author of popular commercial fiction, most notably the orphan X series,

On February 8th, 2022, Harper Collins published Ambassador Friedman's memoir, Sledgehammer.

How breaking with the past brought peace to the Middle East and his first week Sledgehammer broke sales records for a book on the state of Israel.

It came out a little over five months ago on February 8th of this year it had the biggest week of any book on Israel in the last 10 years is what the publishers report it was it's I think I've been a very successful book.

Scruton wrote a really beautiful book called beauty and how it prepares us for truth and justice.

If you take a look read John Spencer's book The Eternal Law, you look at what's happening around Einstein and that they're all invoking Neoplatonic or similar ideas to Neoplatonism.

I think it could make a good case and I think this lines up with the best book I've ever read on Plato, D.C. Schindler's Plato's Critique of Impurities, and the best book hands down my whole life D.C. Schindler's astonishing.

So the, and so does he accept the notion that there is something because one of the things you see in the postmodern types and I was looking at Richard Rorty the work the other day and he seems to buy the postmodern idea that everything is just a network of linguistic representation and that there is no real beyond that, that's that's Dylan's critique of that being semi-liological reductionism, all you do is transfer all the markers of reality onto properties of the text and then you you prevent the text from being subject to the very criticisms you're making of reality, yeah, well that that seems credible to me, okay, so so so it was Paul Merloponti accepts the reality of beauty.