By Justin Brierley2023-11-02T21:11:00
Thousands flocked to London’s O2 arena to hear leading intellectuals including Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray talk about everything from marriage to the meaning of life. Can a ‘faith-based’ approach to the culture wars help solve society’s problems? Justin Brierley reports
The last time I was at the O2 Arena was to see U2 play to a capacity crowd in 2018. That event was a theatrical extravaganza on steroids, with stage production and costume changes to rival any broadway show.
Seeing Jordan Peterson and his guests at the O2 last night (five minuscule figures from where I sat the back of the stadium) seated in a set of armchairs to discuss meaning, purpose and the the state of the world was about as far from the spectacle of entertainment provided by U2 as you can imagine. This was no high-end theatrical production, but rather two and half hours of high-brow thought and unscripted conversations.
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