The Atlantic has been on a downward slope since, hell, 2004? When they shit themselves when Kerry lost? The guys at The Daily Kos had a spat with them at the height of the Dean run for President, but I cannot recall why. Medium? Yea... As for point #3: He is not really saying anything that would have been radical in the 90's. He is a middle of the road, left-ish leaning academic who found some buttons to push and rake in Patreon dollars. He was making 45K a month just in donations for a while, but it now looks like that total is hidden, but he said in an interview last year he was making more in Patreon than as a professor. His biblical stuff is interesting, but not radical or revolutionary. The issue I have with conversations around him is that he saw fame and fortune in the outrage mob and now everything he does, IMO, is wrapped in that frame. We no longer have politics in the US or even Canada to an extent; we have competing, warring mobs of religious fanatics tearing at each other and trying to score "gotchas" instead of talk and solve problems. Peterson is not going to help fix the problem. And I don't need to be told to "clean my room."2. Somehow, an even worse article - is the Atlantic like Medium now, where pretty much anyone can post things?
After struggling with financial hardship and a series of ownership changes since the late 20th century, the magazine was reformatted in the early 21st century as a general editorial magazine. Focusing on "foreign affairs, politics, and the economy [as well as] cultural trends," it is now primarily aimed at a target audience of serious national readers and "thought leaders." In 2010, The Atlantic posted its first profit in a decade. In profiling the publication at the time, The New York Times noted the accomplishment was the result of "a cultural transfusion, a dose of counterintuition and a lot of digital advertising revenue."
I feel kind of bad for Jordan Peterson.