Entries by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

Andrew Joyce Reviews Richard Houck’s Liberalism Unmasked

Liberalism Unmasked Richard Houck Arktos, 2018 Available at Arktos and Amazon (all 5-star reviews) One of my favorite old Irish ballads is ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” written by the nineteenth-century poet Robert Dwyer Joyce. The song (sung magnificently here by Dolores Keane) revolves around a young Wexford rebel who sacrifices his relationship with his beloved, and then […]

Reply to Jordan Peterson on the Jewish Question — From His Heroes Part Four: Nietzsche

Go to Part 1: Solzhenitsyn Go to Part 2: Dostoevsky Go to Part 3: Jung A Reply from Nietzsche. Like these other figures, whose thought is sanitized and claimed by Peterson, Nietzsche possessed views of Jews quite at odds with Peterson’s own hasty conclusions. Robert Holub’s 2015 Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (Princeton […]

Reply to Jordan Peterson on the Jewish Question — From His Heroes: Part Three: Jung

Go to Part 1: Solzhenitsyn. Go to Part 2: Dostoevsky A Reply to Jung. Jordan Peterson references Carl Jung in almost every interview, talk, or text he delivers, and these references are especially frequent in his lecture series on the Biblical stories. In 12 Rules for Life (p.131), Peterson describes Jung as both a “great […]

Reply to Jordan Peterson on the Jewish Question — From His Heroes Part Two: Dostoevsky

Go to Part 1: Solzhenitsyn. Jordan Peterson references Fyodor Dostoevsky in almost every interview, talk, or text he delivers —perhaps even more than he refers to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. His admiration for Dostoevsky is considerable and is made clear in 12 Rules for Life. In 12 Rules, Peterson refers to the Russian author as (p.68) “incomparable,” […]