Perhaps you’ve never heard of Mikhaila Peterson. You’ve definitely heard of her father, though: Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist who in recent years has become the molten core of the culture wars.
When we spoke on Zoom last month, the bleach-blonde Peterson, 31, told me that she saw her father’s rise to fame in 2016 as “apocalyptic and doomy”. “Newspaper reporters were swarming our house,” she said of that time. “This downtown Toronto, semi-detached house. It just got worse. Dad was on the cover of a newspaper being compared to Hitler.” Today, Peterson sees her father as having great foresight. “I thought that he was forecasting trouble that didn’t necessarily exist, and then you move over to 2023 and look at what’s happening.”
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