"An earlier version of this essay misidentified The Gulag Archipelago as a novel."
Amazing that Pankaj Mishra, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of our day, scoffs at Solzhenitsyn in @nybooks even though he has not the faintest idea about his work.http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/ …
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Replying to @Yascha_Mounk @nybooks
I think Mishra knows this fact perfectly well; it was a slip of the pen, and in reality a fact-checking failure that is fully my responsibility. But one corrected error in a clearly erudite and well-argued piece is not a reason to trash its whole argument, surely?
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Replying to @mattseaton @nybooks
Fair enough. I'm just exasperated with the tribalism of so much intellectual discourse today. And I do think Mishra is guilty of it in this instance: If lots of people I don't like like Solzhenitsyn I'll be snide about him without real argument or engagement.
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peterson is influenced by jung so was mircea eliade therefore <waves hands> peterson is a fascist
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