SPENGLER: Jordan Peterson, the Sacred and the Therapeutic. “A full 80% of Americans think that political correctness is a problem in their country, according to polling data, and a reaction against the excesses of the new Savanarolas has been gathering for some time. But why choose Dr. Peterson as the poster-boy for this reaction? I believe that his enormous and sudden popularity stems from his use of the language of therapy to attack the symptoms of a therapeutic society.”