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A Golden Age of Gurus

Honestly with Bari Weiss

CHAPTER

The Intellectual Dark Web and the Boom in Intellectual Gurus

The so-called intellectual dark web is a group of taboo breaking or at least they imagine themselves to be intellectual renegades. Think Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, the brothers Weinstein,. They're mostly men but there were a few women mentioned in the piece who were. And I think to many people still are providing an important intellectual alternative to many mainstream institutions. But it was annoying to me as somebody who sees himself still as being on the left because it gave them so much power.

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