This is a clip from our recent podcast with Jacob Howland. In it, he and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discuss the brutal flaw of communism and Marxism, as well as the reason society fragments when words (and their meanings) are not held sacred.
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This is a clip from our recent podcast with Jacob Howland. In it, he and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discuss the finitude of the human race and how despite this, we grasp for the infinite. To illustrate this, they walk through various classic stories of immortality and it's speculative effects on man.
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Jordan Peterson sits down with author, professor, and Dean of Intellectual Foundations at the University of Austin, Jacob Howland. They discuss man’s finitude and his grasping for the infinite, how orientation can provide limitless abundance or a bottomless fall, where Socrates and the Talmud overlap, and why God offers Abraham adventure as the covenant.
Jacob Howland is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of Intellectual Foundations at the University of Austin. Previously he was McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa, where he taught from 1988 to 2020.
Howland has published five books and roughly sixty scholarly articles and review essays on the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Kierkegaard, the Talmud, the Holocaust, ideological tyranny, and other subjects A past winner of the University of Tulsa Outstanding Teacher Award and the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Littauer Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the Koch Foundation, and has lectured in Israel, France, England, Romania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, and at universities around the United States. His most recent book is Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic, Paul Dry Books, 2018.
This episode was filmed on March 15th, 2025.
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(0:00) Coming up
(1:16) Intro
(4:04) The path to becoming a celebrated professor: from Ancient Greece to the Talmud
(10:25) Where Socrates and the Talmud overlap
(14:18) What’s hidden in the root word of “Question,” spirit and aim
(20:56) “The Immortal” who only sought demise, man’s quest for infinity
(27:05) The relationship between finitude and abundance: the spam haiku archive
(32:03) The fundamental question that shows up both in Plato and in the Talmud
(34:42) Why there is such antagonism toward studying the holy books
(37:06) Exaltation of the man-god, slavery, and true worship
(42:30) Aristophanes and the infantilization of men - some cultural dilemmas are as old as our species
(47:44) Marx’s fatal error: a perfect society cannot be created by imperfect people
(52:11) The only healthy way for reason to function
(54:07) We cannot prove the laws of the universe to be true, we can only prove them false
(59:41) Ancient stories have deep utility in the modern world
(1:03:59) Returning to Plato and the Talmud: the highest good
(1:06:01) When your whims become your god…
(1:10:19) The purpose of your life is not happiness, the right questions to ask
(1:17:06) Abraham, Socrates, and confidence
(1:21:33) Aim and alchemy
(1:27:25) Douglas Murray and the negative depths of deconstructionism
(1:29:40) Marx’s favorite quote
(1:32:26) The age of AI will devolve quickly without a firm grasp of philosophy
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with writer, musician, and podcaster, Winston Marshall. They discuss the nature of identity on the community and national levels, the relationship between a nation and its citizens, how the UK has a rich culture that is worth preserving, and the unifying question that has still yet to be answered.
Winston Marshall is a writer, musician, and host of “The Winston Marshall Show.” In 2007 Winston co-founded folk-rock band Mumford & Sons. In their fourteen years together the band won 2 Grammy Awards, 2 Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello and performed with the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and Elton John. In 2017 he released the techno-fusion album ‘Silk’ in collaboration with HVOB. His remix work includes Maggie Rogers and Jack Garrett. His written work has been published by The Free Press, The Jewish Chronicle, The Spectator, The Daily Mail. Through 2022 and 2023 he hosted the podcast ‘Marshall Matters’ at The Spectator.
This episode was filmed on February 22nd, 2025.
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(0:59) Intro
(4:00) The ARC Conference 2025: telling a better story and offering a positive vision of the future
(8:55) “A relief in and of itself” - acknowledging that we have a culture worth preserving
(13:00) What ARC means to Winston Marshall
(14:29) What it means to English vs. British, why this is problematic in an open society
(19:30) Identity, tyranny, and chaos: a broken hierarchy
(25:11) What is the correct relationship between a nation and its citizens?
(26:45) “National identity is shared participation in the same stories”
(30:41) The unifying question that hasn’t been answered
(33:55) The ring of power and the proper story for free societies
(37:44) Why warring tribes started to trade
(40:56) The biblical stories are an examination of sacrifice
(42:45) God’s covenant and his four offerings to Abraham, father of many nations
(47:25) What is the proper unifying principle?
(52:55) The problem of the center vs. the periphery
(57:51) It’s worse than equity, it’s religious hypocrisy
(1:02:01) Gordon Allport’s scale of prejudice
(1:04:48) Luciferian intelligence vs. embodied knowledge: each is a blessing and a curse
(1:09:00) Who pays the price for your moral proclamations? The answer tells you everything
(1:12:22) The preconditions for classic liberalism, what the American system lacks
(1:18:10) The mess of UK politics right now, “calling what might happen is impossible”
(1:22:43) Kamala Harris, Dean Phillips, and the heretical democrats
(1:26:02) “Trump doesn’t give a damn” - the virtue signaling left created the vice signaling right
(1:27:52) Hollywood stars are dissenting in private
(1:29:55) Oliver Anthony is a working class hero and they tried to destroy him
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This is an early clip from our episode releasing today at 5PM ET. In it, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Winston Marshall explore the proper relationship between a nation and its citizens, the deep-rooted pattern of tribalism across our species' history, and the miracle that we ever escaped it.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with ex-Congressman, ambassador, and author Mark Siljander. They discuss the numerous times he brokered peace in Middle Eastern and African conflicts, the Neo-con worldview, Donald Trump, his role in the Abraham Accords, pushing back against Islamism, and how to build a bridge between true Islam and the west.
Mark Siljander is an ex-Congressman, ambassador, and author of “A Dangerous Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide.
This episode was filmed on March 5th 2025
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(1:46) Intro
(5:06) “A Deadly Misunderstanding,” and an epiphany
(9:24) The Neo-con worldview, a bill promoting racism
(14:44) You can’t work as a mediator if you speak to only one side, threatened and told not to engage
(18:24) The problem with the Neo-con theory of statehood
(24:25) Reading the Quran as a Christian, what it says about Jesus
(36:10) The fruits of Trump’s dealings with the Middle East
(41:55) Speaking with the Palestinians
(47:50) What everyone is missing: the fifth track of engagement
(50:11) The response from the Islamic world to Jordan’s conversations with Muhammad Hijab
(51:55) Bridging sister languages to clarify theological discussion, “the word religion divides people”
(57:44) Establishing genuine understanding, “humility in search of peace”
(1:13:27) Becoming prayer partners with our “enemies” - and how it led to peace
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This is an early clip from our podcast with Mark Siljander, which releases today at 5PM ET. In it, he and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discuss how the three major religions are all "people of the book," the miraculous success of the Abraham Accords, and why Trump is not to be trifled with.
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