In a new and compelling profile of the “Intellectual Dark Web,” Bari Weiss of the New York Times reported on the growing audience for content from thought leaders like Christina Hoff Sommers, Joe Rogan, and Jordan Peterson.

Thinkers who dominate the “IDW” tend to be dissidents from their professions or identity groups, like Sommers, a feminist former professor whose criticisms of the women’s movement earned her scorn in academia.

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