Alliance for Responsible Citizenship: Saving Civilization by . . . Finding a Date?

Conferences are boring. The worst part? Every Q&A portion features some insufferable audience member who hogs the microphone for about five minutes to give an incoherent spiel rather than just asking an actual question. But there’s an exception: the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, or ARC, founded by Jordan Peterson in 2023.

Although the three-day conference in London doesn’t explicitly brand itself as “right wing,” it does advertise a commitment to a somewhat Trumpian narrative: “Growth, at least in the West, has stagnated and there is a growing scepticism and anxiety about the sustainability of human development.” The website has all the keywords you’d expect at a conservative event, such as “flourishing,” “virtues,” and “pro-human vision.” The entry ticket — a whopping £1,500, not including travel or lodging — promises the opportunity to engage with “social, economic, philosophical and cultural questions” with the aim to “re-lay the foundations of our civilisation.” Some big names are speaking over the next few days, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bari Weiss, Bishop Barron, Douglas Murray, Konstantin Kisin, Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel, and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Conferences are boring. The worst part? Every Q&A portion features some insufferable audience member who hogs the microphone for about five minutes to give an incoherent spiel rather than just asking an actual question. But there’s an exception: the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, or ARC, founded by Jordan Peterson in 2023.

Although the three-day conference in London doesn’t explicitly brand itself as “right wing,” it does advertise a commitment to a somewhat Trumpian narrative: “Growth, at least in the West, has stagnated and there is a growing scepticism and anxiety about the sustainability of human development.” The website has all the keywords you’d expect at a conservative event, such as “flourishing,” “virtues,” and “pro-human vision.” The entry ticket — a whopping £1,500, not including travel or lodging — promises the opportunity to engage with “social, economic, philosophical and cultural questions” with the aim to “re-lay the foundations of our civilisation.” Some big names are speaking over the next few days, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bari Weiss, Bishop Barron, Douglas Murray, Konstantin Kisin, Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel, and Vivek Ramaswamy.