![]() ![]() Demonstrations broke out on campus, and he has been the subject of a campaign of protest by trans activists. Following this he was either hailed as a free-speech martyr or castigated as a transphobe. ![]() Peterson, 55, is a psychology professor at the University of Toronto who shot into the headlines in 2016 after refusing to use gender-neutral pronouns at the university which new legislation, Bill C-16, compelled him legally to. He is fast becoming the closest that academia has to a rock star Camille Paglia estimates him to be “the most important Canadian thinker since Marshall McLuhan”. But then Peterson is in a different intellectual league from the authors of most such books. I doubt it has the commercial appeal of The Secret (wish for something and it will come true) and it certainly strays markedly from the territory of How to Win Friends and Influence People. ![]()
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