Yoram Hazony, the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and president of the Herzl Institute, is a leading proponent of the National Conservatism movement, which is invigorating the American and European right. His previous book, The Virtue of Nationalism, won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Conservative Book of the Year award in 2019. A graduate of Princeton University (B.A.) and Rutgers University (Ph.D.), he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.

Dr Alan Mendoza is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society, Britain’s leading thinktank fighting for the principles and alliances which keep societies free. He directs strategy for the organisation as well as acting as its main public face in mediums as diverse as the BBC, Sky, CNBC, Al-Jazeera. Bloomberg, LBC and TalkRadio. On the print side, Alan is a columnist for City AM, London’s business newspaper, and has contributed to The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Sun and a host of international newspapers and magazines.

Having obtained a B.A. (Hons.) and M.Phil in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Alan completed a Ph.D. at the same institution. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was the Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party in the Brent Central Constituency for the 2015 General Election. He is also a Trustee of the President Reagan Memorial Fund Trust.

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EVENT SUMMARY

The Henry Jackson Society was pleased to welcome Dr Yoram Hazony for his book launch on rediscovering Conservatism. Dr Alan Mendoza began the discussion by introducing the speaker. Dr Yoram Hazony then explored how Conservatism has the potential to be an ideology which can fight issues in a way liberalism is unable to, noting examples of how a lack of conservative ideology has led to the banning of abortion in America. He continued to emphasise the importance of tradition, whilst highlighting that change within Conservatism is recognised as a necessity to maintain decaying institutions and to strengthen and preserve that which we have inherited. Dr Yoram Hazony then explored the complicated connection between political theory and political events in practise before Dr Alan Mendoza prompted him to discuss Brexit. Dr Yoram Hazony proceeded to discuss the importance of religion within conservatism, exploring the so-called ‘new religion’ which has been created in the modern era of ‘wokeism’ and indicating that in the future the public may be willing to pursue public Christianity as the only way of defence against this ‘new religion’.

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