Family First’s Bob McCoskrie and Simon O’Connor joined and networked with 4,000 change-makers and thought-leaders from across sectors and nations in London last week at the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) conference. (Bob was fortunate to attend the inaugural conference in November 2023.)
We’ve picked our top presentations from the conference so that you can be challenged and inspired by them also. (Some of the presentations are still to be added to the ARC playlist so we may have a few more to add at a later date.)
We hope you’ll enjoy watching these presentations.
83-year-old philosopher Os Guinness spoke about the need for a cultural spiritual renewal in the West. As Os see’s it: “secular humanism itself has failed…the renewal of faith is now seen to be indispensable. Humans need 3 things on a personal level: meaning, belonging and purpose. And there’s no deeper answers than the Christian faith, rooted in Judaism.”
Douglas Murray called for an ‘Age of Reconstruction’ in Western Nations, fueled by a conviction that our civilisations are the greatest the world has seen.
In this speech Erica Komisar explains how shifting values around family, individualism, and consumer culture have impacted parenting, creating more self-centred parents. Unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices required to give their children the care and attention they need, these parents end up raising children prone to narcissistic disorders, and so the cycle continues. Erica believes the solution lies in reasserting the value of parenting and personal sacrifice in our culture and offers practical advice on how we can begin to reverse the effects of this trend.
Do you feel the tide turning? Not yet? Well, Konstantin Kisin gave an electric speech at ARC 2025
AI is advancing at breakneck speed, but will it actually solve our biggest challenges—or just make them worse? From mass censorship to the rise of digital IDs, intelligence alone may not be enough to fix what’s broken. In this compelling speech, Michael Shellenberger suggests that the problems we face will require something other than more data to solve – they will require a renewal of our morality.
“How will children who are so constantly artificially stimulated ever learn to think, imagine, create or just be still?” In her ARC 2025 speech, Sophie Winkleman lays out a compelling case for the return to an ‘analog’ upbringing for our children and young people, warning of the adverse effects of excessive technology use, particularly in our education systems.
In an effort to minimise the effects of climate change, countries in the developed world are chasing net-zero at all costs, causing high energy prices and reduced energy consumption. The problem? In this video, Bjorn Lomborg explains how, across the world, it is countries with the highest energy consumption that create the most wealth, and it is those with the most wealth that are most able to care for the environment. By enacting policies that reduce energy availability and increase cost, the ‘net-zero’ agenda is preventing the very thing it aims to achieve.
