Joe Rogan is no iconoclast

Joe Rogan is no iconoclast

Every era has a class of leading intellectuals, those rare scholars who can break outside the cloister of academia to penetrate the public consciousness. In the mid-20th century, Europe had the existentialists, while America boasted luminaries such as Sontag and Vidal. It’s perhaps appropriate that our modern political fever dream has replaced intellectuals with a former gameshow host who posts videos of himself taking ice baths; a psychologist w