Run, hide or fight? Too late for Canada?

A conversation with Dark Web archdruid Jordan Peterson, bête noir of The Woke, about why our common enemies always end up coming for the Jews.

It was mostly about this: The Neighbour You Thought You Knew, which was mostly about this, in the Free Press: The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada.

We covered a lot of ground, from the strange, hydra-headed beast that occupies all the places where the “Left” used to be to the tenuous capacity of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives to salvage something worthwhile from the post-national ruins of Justin Trudeau’s Canada.

We didn’t stray far enough into the question of whether it’s too late for the world’s liberal democracies, or whether it’s too late even for the United States to avoid becoming just some country north of Brazil. Even so, it was a very worthwhile encounter.

The conversation carries on in an “exclusive sessions interview” over at Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. Not my usual crowd, but fair play to them.

A more focussed discussion with Mosaic Magazine editor Jonathan Silver, a Warren R. Stern Senior Fellow of Jewish Civilization, can be heard via Mosaic’s Tikvah podcast, here. Quite apart from friends like these, my Free Press investigation has attracted the defamatory wrath of old enemies, as you might imagine.

I won’t deal with that here except to say the Free Press piece required just as much effort and it’s induced the same kind of outrage as my Year of the Graves inquiry from a couple years ago.

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I fully expect the calumny coming my way for the transgression of merely situating myself under the same roof as Dr. Peterson will compound my effrontery in certain circles for having undertaken The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada project in the first place.

It’s been a bit exhausting, and now I’m staring at a deadline for another National Post weekend special. It’s mostly about the root-and-branch geopolitical re-ordering of the Greater Middle East, and whether the NATO capitals are capable of mustering the gumption to see it through.

Whoever wins this fight rules the world. So stay tuned.

Some initial assessments here, in A world of trouble that’s been years in the making; The Syrian Revolution: Victorious at Last; Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Syria and this saucy one, in the Post: Who cares what Americans think about Syria?

This weekend I’ll be paying special attention to Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s grossly reckless seige of the American-backed Kurdish autonomous zone in Rojava. For background on the Kurds, here’s an essay I wrote a while back for World Affairs quarterly, No Friends But The Mountains: The Fate of the Kurds.

All for now. You know what to do: