# Yoram Hazony Israeli-American political philosopher, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and founder of the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]]. The architect of the [[National Conservatism]] movement and its most important organizational leader — the person who gave [[the New Right]]'s disparate factions a conference circuit, a statement of principles, and a shared vocabulary. ## Role in the New Right Hazony is the **coalition-builder**. Through the NatCon conferences and the Edmund Burke Foundation, he created the institutional infrastructure that puts NRx-adjacent tech billionaires, Catholic post-liberals, Claremont constitutionalists, and elected politicians in the same room. His genius is synthesis: he takes the anti-liberal impulses of each faction and translates them into a "nationalism" framework broad enough to hold them all. ## Key Positions & Writings - **"The Virtue of Nationalism" (2018):** Argues that the nation-state is the best guarantor of liberty and that the real threat is "imperialism" — both progressive globalism and older forms. Frames nationalism as inherently moderate and anti-imperial. - **"Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (2022):** Attempts to redefine conservatism away from Enlightenment liberalism and toward Anglo-Protestant traditionalism, hierarchy, and national cohesion. - **NatCon Statement of Principles (2022):** Co-authored statement rejecting globalism, affirming national sovereignty, religious traditionalism, immigration restriction, and industrial policy. ## Connections - [[Peter Thiel]] — Major funder and keynote speaker at NatCon conferences - [[JD Vance]] — Showcased at NatCon events before VP selection - [[Patrick Deneen]] — Post-liberal intellectual ally - [[Christopher Rufo]] — Regular NatCon speaker and culture-war strategist - [[Claremont Institute]] — Overlapping personnel and ideology - [[Tucker Carlson]] — NatCon headliner with mass audience ## The Israel Paradox Hazony's Israeli identity creates a structural tension within the New Right: the NatCon movement he built includes factions with antisemitic elements (the [[Groyper Movement]], parts of the paleocon tradition). His presence at the center forces these factions to at least performatively suppress their antisemitism at NatCon events — though it does nothing to address the underlying ideology. ## See Also - [[National Conservatism]] - [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] - [[Peter Thiel]] - [[JD Vance]] - [[The New Right Ecosystem]]