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China's Economy Has a Jordan Peterson Problem
Creative punctuation is a lot like cherry-picked data: Eventually, people are going to see through it.
Don’t judge a book by its (back) cover.
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The hot gossip of the day is that the plaudits on the back cover of Jordan Peterson’s paperback book are actually just cherry-picked quotes (I know — gasp!!!). Two prominent book critics — James Marriott and Johanna Thomas-Corr — took to Twitter when they found out that their reviews had been gerrymandered, thanks to a series of gratuitously placed ellipses: