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Katy Faust has criticised The New York Times for misrepresenting this year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference.

The NYT replaced ARC’s 2026 Reconstruction theme with White Christian Nationalism in a hit piece attacking the Jordan Peterson alternative to the World Economic Forum.

Correcting the sloppy write-up, Faust wrote in a 16 July post on X, “A New York Times reporter had nearly 200 speakers, dozens of research papers, and three full days of programming to draw from.”

Instead, the article’s author, Lauren Jackson, “quoted two people who weren’t even in the building.”

“I was on that stage,” Faust fired back.

“I’ve served on ARC’s advisory board since before the project even had a name. So let me do the job Jackson skipped.”

Critics Take Aim at ARC

The Them before Us founder and president then explained, “This year’s conference, held June 23–25 in London, drew roughly 4,000 attendees from more than 80 countries to discuss everything from artificial intelligence and energy policy to education and demographic decline.”

“Jackson’s article,” Faust argued, “frames ARC as part of ‘an escalation of Christian nationalist rhetoric that offers a unifying mission for the religious right everywhere.’”

“It’s a serious charge,” she added, “and one [that] readers would reasonably expect to be supported by careful reporting from the conference itself.”

Jackson’s sources were “Yale sociologist Philip Gorski, author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.”

By Faust’s count, “nearly 300 words are devoted to Gorski alone.”

“The only quotation [the NYT used] from anyone who actually spoke at ARC,” she explained, “is a single 10-word line from Rod Dreher: “A civilisation will die if it loses its sacred story.”

Jackson’s article, titled “The Elite Conservative Trying to Revive ‘Western Civilisation’”, is one big pseudo-intellectual rant.

This comes complete with an “oppressor-oppressed” Marxist dichotomy, whereby Jackson paints ARC attendees as a working-class hating, anti-‘progressive’ aristocracy.

Right from the start, Jackson alleges that ARC is “funded by oil and gas companies, billionaires and evangelical Christians.”

One-Eyed Anti-Christian Wingers

Nothing is said about the millions of dollars that flood into the WEF, the LGBTQ lawfare racket, and left-wing NGOs aiming Moa’s Cultural Marxist axe at all that’s good, holy and excellent.

With far-left talking points about Christians and conservatives in hand, Jackson’s piece then devolves into a contempt-laced deconstruction of Western Civilisation.

This merges into a demonisation of Christians, then into a defence of “diversity,” mass immigration and multiculturalism.

Why the excitement over those policies? Well, Jackson makes her reasoning clear.

These ideologies “challenged the idea that Western countries shared a single history, culture and religion.”

Now a “coalition of conservatives are trying to bring the idea back.”

For Jackson and apparently the NYT, ARC is pushing the “oppressor’s myth” of Christian civilisation and its “sacred story.”

In the end, it’s not ARC attendees who are pushing bigoted elitism. It’s Jackson’s Intersectionality lens that masks elitism and envy behind a veil of inclusion and equity.

Faust on Reconstructing Western Civilisation

Faust’s criticisms of the piece are justified.

The Western Christian tradition is far from a figment of ARC’s imagination.

Fallible men and women built Western nations on the back of Christian tenacity, guided by both godly wisdom and biblical morality.

Western nations testify to the grace of God on full display in the uniqueness of Jesus Christ (John 14:6 et. al.).

Although more malevolent than benevolent at times, the West is an existential, historical, technological, and ultimately spiritual fact.

Despite their revisionism, this fact and the common grace that God pours out on a world that often hates him are realities both an ungrateful Jackson and the NYT still benefit from.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

As Faust proclaimed in a separate post prior to this year’s “Age of Reconstruction” ARC exchange, “When people ask me, ‘What is ARC?’ I tell them, ‘It is the righteous inverse of the World Economic Forum.’”

ARC is not “top-down elitism. It’s bottom-up responsibility.”

It’s “not globalism. It is about embracing the best of nationalism.”

It’s “not [an] ideology.” It’s “about building a better future, based in social, economic, historical, and biological reality.”

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