Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism

AUDIO ONLY Yoram Hazony's new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery, has set off a passionate debate among intellectuals on the Right to determine what “national conservatism” actually means and why conservatism needs to be rediscovered. We put those questions and many more to Hazony in this interview.

Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson•June 23, 2022
Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism

Yoram Hazony is the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and president of the Herzl Institute. His 2018 book, The Virtue of Nationalism, established Hazony as one of the leading proponents of a new kind of “national conservatism.” His new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery, has set off a passionate debate among intellectuals on the Right to determine what “national conservatism” actually means and why conservatism needs to be rediscovered. We put those questions and many more to Hazony in this interview.

Recorded on May 17, 2022

Cast

Peter M. Robinson

Peter M. Robinson

Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony

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