WHY THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB HAS FAILED

Unlike their neoconservative forebears, the internet ideologues of the IDW have yet to formulate a coherent vision and lack the political nous to turn their ideas into action

Henry George

THE 2023 ALLIANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE Citizenship (ARC) Conference at London’s O2 Arena set itself the task of discovering a better story about the West and pushing back against the narratives of decline that seem to be the motivating force of our intellectual and cultural classes. It was interesting for mapping out a possible new way of thinking, but it also represented the endpoint of the dissident intellectual ecosystem known as the Intellectual Dark Web (idw). The term was coined by Eric Weinstein, the hedge fund manager who worked with Peter Thiel. In a 2018 New York Times profile, Bari Weiss included in the group not only Weinstein, his brother Bret and sister-in-law Heather Heying, the evolutionary biologist, but Jordan Peterson, podcasters Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin, “factual feminist” Christina Hoff…

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