The decline of Jordan Peterson (& other stories)

A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.

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For the past several years, Great Britain has transformed into a powder keg, as native Britons in rural areas find their small towns crammed with asylum seekers and face crackdowns when they protest. Matt Goodwin has a grim summary of the situation: “Epping is a warning of what’s to come.”

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I covered the LGBT strategy for conquering the culture in my 2016 book The Culture War; Justin Taylor has a good summary of that strategy this month at TGC: “The Remarkably Successful 7-Point Plan from 40 Years Ago to Normalize Homosexuality.”

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On that subject, Bethel McGrew has a very powerful series on Substack.

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Relevant to that series—McGrew is Anglican—is the most recent kerfuffle in the Church of England, in which the new Archbishop of Wales, who is a woman, is also a lesbian. It reminds me of the grim Peter Hitchens joke: Soon the only people interested in marriage will be lesbian archbishops.

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has used authoritarian measures to turn his country from one of the most dangerous to one of the safest—earning him a 90% approval rating. Here’s how he did it: “‘Too Many Soldiers’: How Bukele’s Crackdown Succeeded Where Others Failed.”

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As a fan of Jordan Peterson and his cultural impact, I found this a sad—but accurate—piece: “The sad demise of Jordan Peterson.”

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More soon.