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325. The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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I Think the Problem Isn't a Formal Conspiracy but a System of Ideas

The Gulag Archipelago was not an aberration in relationship to the set of ideas that made up the communist utopian vision. The system of ideas had a certain degree of internal coherence and then if you launched that system into the world it would run algorithmically and produce certain outcomes, he says. "What we're witnessing now is the end stage of of what was Wilsonian progressivism part elements of the Great Society program all of which could be justified"

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