Tag: conservatism

[PREMIERING NOW] Yoram Hazony: Is Liberalism Failing? A Bold New Proposal to Combat Woke Ascendancy

This episode will premiere on Tues. May 24 at 7:30 p.m. ET.       In the face of an ever more radical left, many on the right seem to have lost sight of what conservatism really is, says political theorist Yoram Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem,…


Yoram Hazony: Is Liberalism Failing? A Bold New Proposal to Combat Woke Ascendancy

In the face of an ever more radical left, many on the right seem to have lost sight of what conservatism really is, says political theorist Yoram Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and author of the new book “Conservatism: A Rediscovery.” “At someplace along the way,…


[PREMIERING 7:30PM ET] Yoram Hazony: Is Liberalism Failing? A Bold New Proposal to Combat Woke Ascendancy

This episode will premiere on Tues. May 24 at 7:30 p.m. ET.     In the face of an ever more radical left, many on the right seem to have lost sight of what conservatism really is, says political theorist Yoram Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and…


Against ‘Principled Loserdom’

Commentary I was in New Haven this past week for a couple of events at Yale, one of which was a William F. Buckley, Jr. Program debate for a primarily college-age audience on “common good conservatism.” During the debate, I argued on behalf of the more “muscular,” more forceful and less “liberal” approach to political…


Why the Right Needs a More ‘Muscular’ and ‘Masculine’ Conservatism

Commentary At last month’s National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, I used my speech to criticize “Fusionism,” the postwar conservative movement’s default political alliance built upon an attendant “Fusionist” political philosophy, and instead argue on behalf of an alternative path forward. Fusionism, as formulated and popularized by the midcentury theorist Frank Meyer, “fused” together economic…


The Exasperating Survival of Conservatism 

Commentary One of the remarkable facts of our time is the endurance of a conservative outlook in the United States.  Not the conservatism of libertarians and free-market types or the conservatism of classical liberals who champion free speech and rights of privacy, but social and religious conservatism that upholds the traditional family, staunch patriotism, and…


One Side Fights, the Other Doesn’t

Commentary Back in the late-’90s and early-2000s, after the Campus Wars of the late-’80s and early-’90s had subsided, it became clear to conservative veterans of those prior disputes that however much political correctness in higher education had been exposed and denounced, and no matter how securely conservatives were able to draw the majority of ordinary…


Conservative Ethnogenesis

Commentary Ethnogenesis is the process by which numerous individuals who share an ethnic trait come to understand themselves as a distinct group, people whose common attributes mark them as having a separate standing and experience. The term is now commonly applied to any social group with a marked commonality, not just an ethnic one. It’s a…