He's a con artist. He's got a book, he's got a speaking tour, and when's he's not flogging the book he's flogging his daughter's all meat diet to get his army of fan-boys Manly for the next battle in the Culture Wars. Real intellectuals don't do that kind of thing. Yes Ben Shapiro sells diet supplement s, but it's not a good look on him either. He's a con artist too. And yes Peterson is Far Right as anything , misogynistic but with other dark stuff thrown in for good measure. Climate change denial , for example. But mostly the guy is off-the-hook bonkers. For example, look at this illustration from Maps of Meaning , his first book: I mean WTF? I knew a guy on Vancouver Island who drew shit like this, long ago, usually pictures of the Universe with Him at its center. You'd see him sometimes walking along the Trans-Canada highway barefoot collecting beer-cans in a sack and yelling at the demon perched on his shoulder....