NEW: We are delighted to announce that the next ARC Conference will take place between 17-19 February 2025!
In the coming weeks we are sharing a series of ARC vision films, diving deeper into our key ideas
WATCH:
@jordanbpeterson
calls us to "find the adventure of our life" 👇
"The eternal message that underpins Western civilisation, and I would say every civilisation, is that we are each a divine locus of value.
And if that's true, then we each have a cardinal, an irreplaceable role to play in the destiny of the world."
@jordanbpeterson
"If we are wise, faithful, courageous, and responsible...then we can tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell"
@jordanbpeterson
closing
#ARC2023
with an impassioned speech urging each of us to "get outside ourselves and serve a higher purpose."
Then we will "remember…
ARC is asking 6 fundamental questions. Watch ARC co-founder
@jordanbpeterson
elaborate on questions 3 and 4👇
3. Family and Social Fabric: "What is the proper role for the family, the community, and the nation in creating the conditions for prosperity?"
4. Free Enterprise…
"Traditions are experiments that worked. What we have found, having rejected the sexual norms of the past, is that they were there for a reason.
The winners of the sexual revolution have not been women...and the great losers of the sexual revolution are children"…
“It is time to bring a more optimistic vision and to believe in ourselves, in our civilisation, and in the things which made it such an extraordinary civilisation.”
WATCH: The ARC Vision Trailer | A hope-filled invitation to the future 👇
Decline is not inevitable. Purpose is…
"The story of the West is a story of audacity...We need a positive message, so here it is..."
An inspiring
@KonstantinKisin
sets out his vision for a better world
#ARC2023
Over the coming weeks we will be introducing our Organising Committee
Today we are starting with Baroness Stroud, co-founder of ARC. Here she sets out the vision and key themes of ARC 👇
"Once we stop getting scared witless, we can actually be incredibly smart"
@BjornLomborg
shows that the world is not ending, that life has improved dramatically for almost everyone everywhere, and that there are smarter solutions than climate policies.
#BetterStory
WATCH the…
ARC asks 6 fundamental questions. Watch ARC co-founder
@jordanbpeterson
elaborate on our first 2 questions 👇
1. Vision and Story: "Can we find a unifying story that will guide us as we make our way forward?"
2. Responsible Citizenship: "How do we facilitate the development of…
“If you are a responsible citizen you are the kind of autonomous individual that can take care of yourself and other people”
Today, ARC co-founder
@jordanbpeterson
explains his vision for ARC and why he is joining. 1/2
Watch the full podcast:
“We believe there is a better story, and it’s one of optimism that sees a future of abundance and opportunity, not scarcity and decline”
Our CEO Philippa Stroud kicks off the ARC Conference, welcoming over 1,500 international delegates and setting out ARC’s vision
#ARC2023
"Now, it is on us to take up this calling. Decline is not inevitable. ARC offers a compelling hope-filled vision for the future."
Former US Speaker
@SpeakerMcCarthy
addressing the conference on the importance of restoring freedom to achieve global prosperity.
#ARC2023
THREAD: Introducing the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC).
ARC is being established as an international community with a vision for a better world where every citizen can prosper, contribute, and flourish.
Read our launch announcement here:
"Don't give your kids a smart phone."
Is social media the cause of spiralling mental health? Listen to
@JonHaidt
speak with
@FraserNelson
about how we strengthen our social fabric.
#ARC2023
“[You] have a moral obligation to do remarkable things with this miracle of existence that has been granted to you.”
🚨NEW:
@jordanbpeterson
's inspiring message to young people at
#ARC2023
👇🧵
Tonight,
@jordanbpeterson
is speaking at
@TheO2
, sharing the ARC vision of responsible citizenship to 20,000 people! There is a better future for our societies and a better story we can all get behind
#ARC2023
"We have the capacity...to make the very desert bloom."
@jordanbpeterson
challenging each of us to use what we have to create a future of abundance and opportunity for everyone.
Humanity's capacity for innovation and ingenuity is unlimited
#BetterStory
"The goods must dance together. They play against each other. They have be put in proper hierarchies, where the more encompassing goods like the virtues, guide the lower goods like the stuff."
@PageauJonathan
delivering a passionate keynote speech on The Better Story: The Good,…
An inspirational first day at
#ARC2023
as we welcomed some of the world's brightest thinkers across politics, business and culture. Stay tuned for 2 more days of visionary content!
Watch some of the Day 1 highlights 👇🏻
I’ve done 100+ shows with
@jordanbpeterson
over the years. His talk at the end of
@arc_forum
was the most meaningful, poetic, and important speech I’ve ever heard in my life.
"We need to turn around the narrative that work outside the home is more important than motherhood."
@EricaKomisarCSW
delivering a keynote speech on the importance of raising healthy, happy, resilient children as part of a strong social fabric.
#ARC2023
"Western Civilisation is a cut flower, and cut flowers die... but we have the remnants, the symbols of western heritage, and their seeds. All we have to do, those of us who inherited it, is to go and see them, grow them, nurture them, water them - and when they're attacked, fight…
"ARC’s positive mission is to promote a revival of appreciation of the best of Western Civilisation"
"ARC is pro-nuclear energy, pro-capitalism, pro-family, pro-child, pro-Christianity, pro-freedom of speech and religion, and pro-traditional education."
@SpectatorOz
…
.
@ChavuraStephen
has brilliantly summarised this week’s
@arc_forum
in London. The things our elites won’t say have been said in a very impressive forum. What happens next may well determine the future of western civilisation.
"The point of education is teaching children what they should want. That there be mentors and masters who say 'these are the values you should incorporate. When you do that, people become responsible. Able to respond."
@BishopBarron
channelling Aristotle in his keynote speech to…
"Our civilisation has forgotten the foundations upon which it was built."
@prcmarshall
is co-founder and chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, founder of
@unherd
, and member of ARC's Organising Committee 👇
"ARC presents the unique opportunity for us to choose renewal, to revitalise our vision for what it means to flourish - as individuals, as families, as greater communities, as states and nations."
In his first major international speech since becoming US Speaker,…
"Art has a power to change people's lives for ever. If you have to choose between politics or art to govern a nation, I would choose art because it has the power to touch people's hearts and minds."
Mexican movie star
@EVerastegui
speaking at
#ARC2023
on the vital role art plays…
“The history of our civilisation was not made by people who always got everything right.
“It was made by people who dared to believe that they could solve the problems they faced. The story of the West is a story of audacity.”
@KonstantinKisin
on the West’s story at
#ARC2023
Why ARC? Why now?
Listen to our co-founder and CEO Philippa Stroud open
#ARC2023
and set out ARC’s vision.
In a time of global shaking, there is a
#BetterStory
“We believe there is a better story, and it’s one of optimism that sees a future of abundance and opportunity, not scarcity and decline”
Our CEO Philippa Stroud kicks off the ARC Conference, welcoming over 1,500 international delegates and setting out ARC’s vision
#ARC2023
"There is an adolescent mental health crisis and it was caused primarily by the rapid rewiring of childhood in the early 2010s, from play-based to phone-based."
Read
@JonHaidt
's summary of his powerful research into the impact of digital technology on young people 👇
If you want to understand what happened to Gen Z -- why they are so much more anxious and depressed than Millennials -- read this selection of our best posts from After Babel in 2023. It's a preview of my book The Anxious Generation:
"The role of government was never to grant, but always to uphold our inherent, inalienable human rights and fundamental freedoms."
@LeslynLewis
is a member of the Canadian Parliament and a member of the ARC Organising Committee.
Happy New Year from ARC! 🎉🥂
Make 2024 a year of bearing more responsibility⬇️
“You want to be outside yourself, serving a higher purpose... We’ve forgotten the responsibility that we need to bear in our life to make our lives bearable.”
@jordanbpeterson
at
#ARC2023
"ARC will be visionary, invitational and aspirational...authoritative, but forswearing the use of force and compulsion. Calm and steady-handed, rather than frightened. As patient as necessary; as positive as possible; as playful as can be managed."
@jordanbpeterson
Join us:…
Niall Ferguson: “The young in the West don’t believe in nothing. They believe in things—but those things are not liberal democracy.”
@nfergus
spoke with Greg Sheridan,
@RLHeinrichs
, and Andrew Hastie at
#ARC2023
about the threats facing Western democracies ⬇️🧵
NOW: Jacinta Price closing out the day at ARC, talking about the recent Voice Referendum in Australia.
"We have experienced a turning point in our nation with the result of our referendum. It has created hope. It has created unity. It has emboldened every day Australians."
Merry Christmas from ARC!🎄
“What I find appealing... about the Judeo-Christian story is that that transcendent power ends up being a story about freedom, about tempering power...
"That story is superior to a number of other stories that I know.”
@Ayaan
at
#ARC2023
“Instagram is the worst for teen mental health for girls… TikTok is probably the worst for their intellectual development”
@JonHaidt
spoke to
@FraserNelson
at
#ARC2023
about the causes of the child mental health crisis and his four proposed solutions.
Comment your thoughts⬇️
"The new ARC forum can help us envision the future in a positive manner. We can focus on what is truly important and attainable."
Elite groupthink put the West on the path to despair - but there’s another way |
@jordanbpeterson
@BjornLomborg
"Love humanity. Gas for the world. Go nuclear."
In his keynote speech on Energy, Resources and Our Environment,
@shellenberger
set out his vision for a new a story.
#ARC2023
An inspiring and thought-provoking Day 2 at
#ARC2023
as we convened some of the world's finest minds to debate the most pressing challenges of our time.
Watch the highlights of Day 2 👇
--
Despite an "elite wall of consensus never seen before, with the support of a small, committed group of campaign leaders, suburban and regional Australia said no."
Hot on the heels of the recent Indigenous Voice referendum, Australia's Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor today…
"When one generation no longer esteems its own heritage and fails to pass the torch to its own children, it is saying that the very foundational principles and experiences that make it the society that it is are no longer valid."
- Winston Churchill
"It's not about whiteness, it's about wealth"
@magattew
on barriers to alleviating poverty and creating prosperity in Africa, and how to release entrepreneurs to create wealth
#ARC2023
Have you adopted "anti-human environmental philosophy"?
@AlexEpstein
challenges
#ARC2023
to see humans as "producer-improvers" not "parasite-polluters" when it comes to our environment.
Do you agree?
Watch the full interview with
@Marian_L_Tupy
and
@stoker_aj
below 🧵
“
@jordanbpeterson
and I believe we can all be part of building something better”
Who is Baroness Stroud?
ARC’s co-founder and CEO tells all in a deep-dive about the origins of ARC and why she is committed to renewing the best of Western civilisation 👇
🚨Over 350,000 people have watched Dr Scott Tinker's talk at
#ARC2023
, on the trade-offs involved in transitioning to greener energy. Watch this clip to see why 👇🧵
“We’re well aware of the benefits of reducing emissions, but what are some of the unintended outcomes of it?"
"The people perish without hopeful vision"
ARC co-founder
@jordanbpeterson
explains why we all need narratives of hope, and how ARC intends to develop a hopeful vision that everyone can get behind.
Watch the full podcast:
“The faith that’s necessary to confront the future properly is indistinguishable from courage.”
@jordanbpeterson
spoke at
#ARC2023
about the need to choose faith over nihilism⬇️
“What we’ve found from having rejected all of the sexual norms of the past is that they were there for a reason.
“The winners of the sexual revolution have not been women in general... the great losers of the sexual revolution have been children.”
@Louise_m_perry
at
#ARC2023
We are delighted that ARC Advisory Board member
@RepMikeJohnson
has just been elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives!
Speaker Johnson has been with us from the very beginning of ARC and we have greatly appreciated his insight and support. We wish him well in his new…
"We are in the middle of an identity crisis in the West, without a common narrative or moral framework"
ARC aims to "re-evaluate humanity's direction of travel and revitalise our vision of what it means to flourish"
@RepMikeJohnson
is Vice Chairman of House Republicans and…
"There are some people whose brains have been broken. To them our past is abominable and our future is one of managed decline.
My message to them is simple. How dare you?
You will not steal my son's future with empty words."
@KonstantinKisin
starting today with a bang.
It has been inspiring to look out at a room filled with 1500 people committed to building a movement of hopeful vision. Seeing connections being made, friendships started, and stories being shared.
#ARC2023
“We must organise better, much better, to uphold the values of individual freedom against all the forms of tyranny that threaten it.”
@nfergus
spoke at
#ARC2023
about the need for citizens to stand up for liberty 👇🧵
ARC exists to facilitate serious conversations about the greatest challenges of our time.
A privilege having
@RubinReport
with us through the Conference.
Decline is not inevitable. We believe it is possible to revitalise our foundations, renew our culture, and restore optimism, confidence, and hope for the future.
This Friday we will be starting a 4-part newsletter series that will articulate ARC's vision. Subscribe here:…
In 1940, Holland House library in London was bombed in the Blitz. Yet people still sought out stories and truth in the ruins.
We have always been storytellers and, in times of trouble, we need stories of hope.
Today, we need a better story, one that gives hope for the future.
"Reagan warned us that in the face of evil, the time for shyness was over, “Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.”
Now, it is on us to take up this calling."
@SpeakerMcCarthy
“Western Civilisation is a cut flower, and cut flowers die." But we have each inherited "seed packets". "All we have to do...is seed them, grow them, nurture them, water them, and when they’re attacked, fight for them.”
-
@Ayaan
at
#ARC2023
What seeds will you plant in 2024?
“We must organise better, much better, to uphold the values of individual freedom against all the forms of tyranny that threaten it.”
At
#ARC2023
,
@nfergus
encouraged people to stand up for liberty in the face of challenges in the West ⬇️
ARC asks 6 fundamental questions. Watch ARC co-founder
@jordanbpeterson
elaborate on questions 5 and 6👇
5. Energy and Resources: "How do we provide the energy and other resources upon which all economies depend in a manner that is inexpensive, reliable, safe and efficient,…
“We want to figure out how to develop responsible citizens in families, in communities, in properly put together cities, and to leave requisite responsibility at every level of that hierarchy. That is the antidote to tyranny.”
@jordanbpeterson
2/2
"We are in the fight of our lives. If courage means anything at all, it means doing the right thing and being willing to take the punishment if you have to."
WATCH
@KonstantinKisin
's viral message to Western leaders 👇
"We are in the middle of an identity crisis in the West, without a common narrative or moral framework"
ARC aims to "re-evaluate humanity's direction of travel and revitalise our vision of what it means to flourish"
@RepMikeJohnson
is Vice Chairman of House Republicans and…
"I remembered that we are tethered,
connected in our weakness,
dependent like flowers towards the sun
upon a beauty that is not our own"
The spoken word of Joshua Luke Smith lifted our eyes each day of the conference and pointed us to
#BetterStory
At ARC, we believe that humans have an extraordinary capacity for innovation and ingenuity. But this can only be released when people have a hopeful, optimistic vision for the future.
This Alliance intends to renew that vision.
Join us on the journey 👇
We are honoured to be able to profile 6 new papers from ARC Research!
1 "Being There: Raising Resilient Children"
@EricaKomisarCSW
Erica shows how the secure attachment of children with parents is vital for future emotional resilience.
READ: /1
“Being told that we are victims because of our racial heritage...effectively meant that our agency had been removed."
@JNampijinpa
tackling pervasive victimhood narratives in the recent Indigenous Voice referendum
#ARC2023
🧵
"The purpose of the state is surely to help spontaneous civil associations to flourish so that they, in turn, can help individual citizens flourish...not the other way around"
Former Deputy Prime Minister
@JohnAndersonAC
revealing what ARC means by 'responsible citizenship' 👇
.
@nfergus
identifies 4 great challenges to the West:
- Mounting public debt
- Over-regulation of markets
- Rule of law turning into rule of lawyers
- Weakening of associational life
Do you agree? 🤔
Watch his full talk at
#ARC2023
⬇️
"We can either have a scarcity mindset, that things are getting worse & we are to blame, or an abundance mindset, that things are getting better & can get better"
@AJMcCormick
is a Partner at
@Legatum
, co-founder of
@TheENDFund
&
@Freedom_Fund
, and co-founder of ARC 👇
"We now face in many areas an effective coalition between the privileged and the resentment industry".
In a keynote speech at
#ARC2023
, UK Housing Secretary
@michaelgove
addresses the issue of crony capitalism, singling out those who profit from "manufactured grievances".
"We cannot fix our problems simply by placing ourselves in opposition to the narrative of permacrisis and decline; we need to offer an alternative."
Writing in
@Telegraph
, Baroness Stroud, one of our co-founders sets out a vision for ARC.
Read more👇
With the decline of the family and rising living costs, what would it take to help the next generation thrive?
In their new paper for ARC Research,
@Louise_m_perry
, Fiona Mackenzie and
@pastasnack_e
show how our modern societies have lost sight of the value of both children and…
"Whatever it is you are chasing right now, it ain't it."
"The supreme good is not money, energy, freedom, family, knowledge...all those things are good, but should never be treated as the supreme good."
"Goods must be put in proper hierarchies..." - Watch on to learn more 👇…
"It is in the struggle that the meaning of life emerges. We are to move out into the world with nobility and courage and hoist the world on our shoulders.
The burden of responsibility is not a burden. It is the greatest opportunity you could possibly have."
@jordanbpeterson
"2008 still leaves a long shadow on Western politics…as everyone saw how the bankers privatised their gains and socialised their losses. This gross injustice has never been rectified."
ARC Advisory Board member Sir Paul Marshall tackling monopolies, cronyism, and woke…
NEW YEAR, NEW VISION FOR BUSINESS
Sir Paul Marshall calls on those inside and outside politics to combat cronyism, regulatory capture, and false virtue in the business world📈
#ARC2023
What part can you play in making "free enterprise once again a pillar of human flourishing"?
"The true roots—the foundation stones—of Western civilisation are not freedom, prosperity, and happiness. But the pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful."
@miriam_cates
spoke at
#ARC2023
about the foundations of Western flourishing⬇️🧵
"The Left has promised to make everyone equal.
The Right has promised to make everyone rich.
The Liberals have promised to make everyone happy.
None of that has happened. We need a new narrative"
@GudrunKugler
- Member of the Austrian Parliament and the ARC Organising Committee
An inspirational first day at
#ARC2023
as we welcomed some of the world's brightest thinkers across politics, business and culture. Stay tuned for 2 more days of visionary content!
Watch some of the Day 1 highlights 👇🏻
Freedom is “the disciplining of desire, so as to make the achievement of the good first possible, and then effortless”.
@BishopBarron
spoke about the true nature of freedom at
#ARC2023
, and how it differs from the popular modern understanding 👇🧵
“We’re in a cut flower civilisation now- the roots have been cut, and people are still relying on the flower. But a flower in a vase will die.”
@OsGuinness
,
@Ayaan
,
@JohnAndersonAC
, and
@jordanbpeterson
discussed the state of Western civilisation at
#ARC2023
👇🧵
UK Trade Secretary
@KemiBadenoch
speaking to
@freddiesayers
on why growth has stalled:
- Reliance on an ever-growing state
- Narratives of fear & safetyism that stifle innovation
- Focus on ESG & DEI that don’t deliver profits or the good they promise
👉
NEW YEAR, NEW VISION
What is your vision for 2024?
We hope that this Vision Trailer will help inspire an optimistic, responsible, and courageous vision for you and your family this new year.
#ABetterStory
“It is time to bring a more optimistic vision and to believe in ourselves, in our civilisation, and in the things which made it such an extraordinary civilisation.”
WATCH: The ARC Vision Trailer | A hope-filled invitation to the future 👇
Decline is not inevitable. Purpose is…
“If the true sign of an enlightened society is an emphasis on relationships, family, and care for the most vulnerable, then we are failing miserably.”
@EricaKomisarCSW
is a clinical social worker, author, psychoanalyst, parent coach, and member of our Organising Committee 👇
"The constant barrage of negativity may lead us to imagine that our forward progress is about to end. However, the evidence does not support this conclusion" say
@jordanbpeterson
&
@BjornLomborg
#ARC2023
will counter declinism and tell a better story.
“To live in a Western country is to live in a society, still utterly saturated by Christian concepts & assumptions. Two thousand years on from Christ…[we are]...stamped by the formidable—indeed the inescapable—influence of Christianity”
-
@holland_tom
, Dominion
"Can we formulate a narrative that is not anti-human, but pro-human?"
If we don't, humanity will diminish, not only in terms of their quantity, but also "in terms of their spirit"
@PageauJonathan
is an artist, writer, public speaker, and member of the ARC Organising Committee…
"The vision of ARC is not to offer an enlightened or superior vision of the future, but to provide a community where people can address common questions and offer solutions."
We are honoured to have Christopher Chandler, Chairman of
@Legatum
, as one of our founding members 👇
"Yesterday, all spoke of the crisis of identity in the West, but also of the possibilities of this moment. Because the things that threaten us – including technology in all its forms, or even woke – also contain the seeds of renewal."
@danny__kruger
"United the West may yet stand, but divided we will surely fall... We must reinvigorate our sense of citizenship"
We now stand at a unique crossroads. If we are to summon the conviction and courage we need for the future, we must return to responsible citizenship, says…
Tomorrow, in his first international speech, '
@SpeakerJohnson
will praise ARC for its role in "pushing back on the failed visions that currently plague the West"', writes
@dcexaminer
Discover more here:
#ARC2023
"We first need to figure out how to take responsibility for ourselves so we can then take responsibility for our community, namely, our children."
@Advo_Katy
is Founder and President of
@ThemBeforeUs
, a children's rights charity, and member of the ARC Organising Committee 👇
“ARC appears as a possible break in what seems like an inevitable path”
@PageauJonathan
is an artist, writer, public speaker, and member of ARC's Organising Committee. Read his reflections on the West's current path and how ARC offers an alternative 👇