In any case, I decided to keep digging. He reminds me a lot of Steven Pinker, another Canadian psychologist with an anti-left agenda, who I also came to via a strong negative reaction to a YouTube video. With Pinker, I dug past that strong reaction and — while some of my problems with him remain firm — I learned a lot in the process of intellectually wrestling with him. I appreciate productive disagreement. Interestingly, Peterson is actually at odds with Pinker and the neo-Darwinians, and much of his critique sounds like things I’ve been saying for years. So, having found some common ground with him as well as serious disagreements, I thought I’d watch and read more, and write something.