73 Facts About Jordan Peterson

Jordan Bernt Peterson was born on 12 June 1962 and is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator.

Jordan Peterson received widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues.

In 2016, Jordan Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing a Canadian law that prohibited discrimination against gender identity and expression.

Jordan Peterson argued that the bill would make the use of certain gender pronouns compelled speech and related this argument to a general critique of "political correctness" and identity politics, receiving significant media coverage and attracting both support and criticism.

Jordan Peterson has been widely criticized by climate scientists for denying the scientific consensus on climate change and giving a platform to climate-change deniers.

In 2019 and 2020 Jordan Peterson suffered health problems related to benzodiazepene dependence.

In 2022, Jordan Peterson signed a content distribution deal with the conservative media company The Daily Wire and became Chancellor of the newly launched Ralston College.

Jordan Peterson was born on 12 June 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Jordan Peterson is the oldest of three siblings, with a younger sister and a younger brother, born to Walter and Beverley Peterson.

In junior high school, Jordan Peterson became friends with Rachel Notley and her family.

Jordan Peterson was a member of the New Democratic Party from ages 13 to 18.

Jordan Peterson later transferred to the University of Alberta, where he completed his BA in political science in 1982.

Jordan Peterson then returned to the University of Alberta and received a BA in psychology in 1984.

From July 1993 to June 1998, Jordan Peterson lived in Arlington, Massachusetts, while teaching and conducting research at Harvard University, where he was hired as an assistant professor in the psychology department.

For most of his career, Jordan Peterson maintained a clinical practice, seeing about 20 people a week.

Jordan Peterson has been active on social media, and in September 2016 he released a series of videos in which he criticized Bill C-16.

In February 2018, Jordan Peterson entered into an agreement with the College of Psychologists of Ontario after a professional misconduct complaint about his communication and the boundaries he sets with his patients.

The college did not consider a full disciplinary hearing necessary and accepted Jordan Peterson entering into a three-month undertaking to work on prioritizing his practice and improving his patient communications.

Jordan Peterson had no prior disciplinary punishments or restrictions on his clinical practice.

Jordan Peterson's appeal was reviewed in August 2023 by a panel of three judges of the Ontario Divisional Court, who unanimously upheld the college's initial decision concluding that the ICRC's reasoning in their 2022 decision was "transparent, intelligible, justifiable, and reasonable" and ordered Jordan Peterson to pay the CPO $25,000 in legal costs.

In October 2024, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said under oath that Jordan Peterson was funded by Russian state-owned media outlet RT.

In 1999, Routledge published Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, in which Jordan Peterson describes a theory about how people construct meaning, form beliefs, and make narratives.

In 2013, Peterson registered a YouTube channel named JordanPetersonVideos, and immediately began uploading recordings of lectures and interviews.

In March 2016, after three years of basic uploading of course videos, Jordan Peterson announced an interest to clean existing content and improve future content.

Jordan Peterson said he was notified that he would be required to delete the tweet in order to restore access to his account, which he said he "would rather die than do".

Jordan Peterson hired a production team to film his 2017 psychology lectures at the University of Toronto.

However, regular donations for the YouTube channel were interrupted in January 2019, when Jordan Peterson deleted his Patreon account in public protest of the platform's controversial banning of anti-feminist content creator, Carl Benjamin for using racist language on YouTube.

Jordan Peterson has appeared on many podcasts, conversational series, as well as other online shows.

Jordan Peterson defended engineer James Damore after he was fired from Google for writing Google's Ideological Echo Chamber.

In January 2022, Jordan Peterson was interviewed by Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Several climate scientists criticized Jordan Peterson, saying that he misunderstood climate modelling.

Also in June 2022, Jordan Peterson signed a deal with the news company The Daily Wire, which includes the distribution rights to Jordan Peterson's video and podcast library.

Jordan Peterson will produce bonus content and specials featuring guests for the video on demand platform DailyWire+.

In May 2017, Jordan Peterson began The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, a series of live theatre lectures, published as podcasts, in which he analyzes archetypal narratives in the Book of Genesis as patterns of behaviour ostensibly vital for personal, social and cultural stability.

Jordan Peterson had previously said the fellowship would give him an "opportunity to talk to religious experts of all types for a couple of months," and that the new lectures would have been on the Book of Exodus.

Jordan Peterson has characterized himself politically as a classical liberal and as a traditionalist.

Jordan Peterson has stated that he is commonly mistaken as right-wing, stating that he supports universal healthcare, redistribution of wealth towards the poor, and the decriminalization of drugs.

Jordan Peterson has been described as "conservative-leaning" by The New York Times and as an "aspiring conservative thought leader" by The Washington Post.

On November 24,2024, in her Observer Column of The Guardian, Martha Gill reiterated a good number of the criticisms of Jordan Peterson, noted social dynamics facilitating the appeal of similar internet personalities, and suggested that he was "tapping into the self-improvement market among young men" and advocating a form of spirituality as a route, given that religion was in decline among members of that cohort.

Jordan Peterson asserts that universities are largely responsible for a wave of "political correctness" that has appeared in North America and Europe, saying that he had watched the rise of political correctness on campuses since the early 1990s.

Jordan Peterson believes the humanities have become corrupt and less reliant on science, in particular sociology.

Jordan Peterson contends that "proper culture" and western civilization are being undermined by "post-modernism and neo-Marxism".

Tim Lott stated in The Spectator that Jordan Peterson became "an outspoken critic of mainstream academia".

Jordan Peterson has proposed cutting funding for liberal arts programs throughout Canada, claiming that students were being indoctrinated with "cultural Marxism".

Jordan Peterson has said that "disciplines like women's studies should be defunded", advising freshman students to avoid subjects such as sociology, anthropology, English literature, ethnic studies, and racial studies, as well as other fields of study that he believes are corrupted by "post-modern neo-Marxists".

Jordan Peterson has said that these fields propagate cult-like behaviour and safe-spaces.

In 2017, Jordan Peterson did an interview with the Toronto Sun following a public controversy around cultural appropriation in which a senior editor for the CBC tweeted that he would "contribute $100 to an appropriation prize" before a debate about cultural appropriation between journalists, resulting in a public apology by the editor and his reassignment to a lower position.

Jordan Peterson has used the terms "cultural Marxism" and "postmodernism" interchangeably to describe the influence of postmodernism on North American humanities departments; he views postmodern philosophy as an offshoot or expression of neo-Marxism.

Burston writes that in attributing the decline of the liberal arts solely to the advent of postmodernism and political correctness, Jordan Peterson has joined sides with the right in the campus culture wars.

Jordan Peterson argues that social justice promotes collectivism and sees individuals as "essentially a member of a group" and "not essentially an individual".

Jordan Peterson argues that social justice "view[s] the world" as "a battleground between groups of different power".

Jordan Peterson has claimed that the rise of Donald Trump and far-right European politicians is due to a negative reaction to a push to "feminize" men, saying that "if men are pushed too hard to feminize they will become more and more interested in harsh, fascist political ideology".

Jordan Peterson said that he immediately called on his supporters to "back off" once he became aware of the abuse and denied that the harassment was reflective of "fundamental misogyny".

On 27 September 2016, Jordan Peterson released the first installment of a three-part lecture video series, entitled "Professor against political correctness: Part I: Fear and the Law".

Jordan Peterson cited free-speech implications in opposition to the bill and falsely said that he could be prosecuted under provincial human-rights laws if he refused to call a transgender student or faculty member by the individual's preferred pronoun.

The series of videos drew criticism from transgender rights groups, faculty, and labour unions who condemned Jordan Peterson for "helping to foster a climate for hate to thrive" and for "fundamentally mischaracterising" the law.

In February 2017, Maxime Bernier, then candidate for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, stated that he had shifted his position on Bill C-16, from support to opposition, after meeting with Jordan Peterson and discussing it.

In June 2018, Jordan Peterson filed a $1.5-million lawsuit against Wilfrid Laurier University, alleging that three staff members of the university had maliciously defamed him by making negative comments about him behind closed doors.

Jordan Peterson is a climate-change denier and has publicly expressed his disbelief in the scientific consensus on climate change.

Jordan Peterson has been identified by climate scientists as a "key organizer at the global level for efforts to oppose and delay action on climate change".

Jordan Peterson has been criticized by climate scientists for providing a platform on his YouTube channel to climate deniers such as Judith Curry and Alex Epstein.

Jordan Peterson has been referred to as "the most influential Biblical interpreter in the world today".

Lott said that Jordan Peterson has respect for Taoism, as it views nature as a struggle between order and chaos and posits life would be meaningless without this duality.

Jordan Peterson has expressed his admiration for some of the teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Jordan Peterson's audience is huge and ever more diverse, but a significant number of his fans are white men.

In contrast, in March 2018, Zack Beauchamp of Vox argued that Jordan Peterson is popular because he.

Jordan Peterson married Tammy Roberts in 1989, with whom he has a daughter, Mikhaila, who is named after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and a son, Julian.

In 2016, Jordan Peterson restricted his diet to only meat and a few vegetables in an attempt to control his depression and the effects of an autoimmune disorder.

Nutrition experts point out that such a diet can result in "severe dysregulation" and Mikhaila later claimed that Jordan Peterson experienced a "violent reaction" to this diet.

Jordan Peterson was prescribed clonazepam for anxiety that reportedly began after a "violent reaction to a meat and greens only diet".

Jordan Peterson attributed his increased usage of Clonazepam to his wife Tammy's diagnosis of kidney cancer.

Jordan Peterson said that he made several attempts to reduce the dosage or stop the drug completely, but experienced "horrific" benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome.

Two months later, Jordan Peterson informed viewers of his YouTube channel he had returned to Canada and aimed to resume work in the near future.