There’s a great number of factors to account for: the undoubted liberatory power of some leftist analysis, the undoubted dead-ends and delusions that over-intellectual and/or ideologically blinkered analysis can lead to, the importance of the humanities in our culture, the insignificance of the humanities in our culture, the role of academia as an initiation into wider society, the role of academia as a counter-balance to wider society… At best, Peterson’s attacks are missing many factors out, leaving him in danger of being as skewed as the targets he sets up before him.