The venue for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, held Oct. 30–Nov. 1 in London, was emphatically not what I was expecting. ARC was established earlier this year as an international community of leaders and thinkers—most of them on the right—with the intention of calling Western civilization to its senses. It wants to return for inspiration to the West’s deepest, most venerable sources; rejects the inevitability of decline; and seeks solutions that draw on humanity’s highest virtues and bottomless ingenuity. ARC’s founders include Jordan Peterson and Sir Paul Marshall, a hedge fund manager who backed Brexit and bankrolled the creation of the website
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