The Virtue of Nationalism

Name: The Virtue of Nationalism
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Yoram Hazony
ISBN: 9781668649497

Author: Yoram Hazony

Narrator: JD Zimmer

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 06/24/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, History, Middle Eastern History

Synopsis

In this “tour de force” (National Review), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today

Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial debate: Should we fight for international government? Or should the world's nations keep their independence and self-determination?

In The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony contends that a world of sovereign nations is the only option for those who care about personal and collective freedom. He recounts how, beginning in the sixteenth century, English, Dutch, and American Protestants revived the Old Testament's love of national independence, and shows how their vision eventually brought freedom to peoples from Poland to India, Israel to Ethiopia. It is this tradition we must restore, he argues, if we want to limit conflict and hate -- and allow human difference and innovation to flourish.

About Yoram Hazony

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 reinvigorating 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 (BA) and Rutgers (PhD), he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Murtaza on April 18, 2019

I will write a longer review soon. In short this book is a repetitive restatement of traditional illiberal views on political order, framed within a larger effort at apologia for the modern state of Israel.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on November 13, 2018

A barely passing-grade worthy defense of what should be a pretty defensible thesis. I’ll start with a few of Hazony’s winning gambits. He kicks it off with framing Hebrew Bible as a plea for national independence in the face of ever-changing Fertile Crescent empires, I like it already! He then rapid......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on March 19, 2019

This is a superb book, long overdue.......more

Goodreads review by Sara Bennett on September 30, 2018

Eye opening In this book Yoram Hazony has opened my eyes to the best system for maintaining the rights and dignity of the greatest number of people in the world. He has truly changed my view of the world. I recommend this book to anyone who wishes to better understand the competing forces in world p......more

Goodreads review by Hang on September 12, 2018

This is an excellent book. Hazony uses basic anthropology and the Bible to debunk enlightenment thinkers such as Locke who build an entire edifice upon extremely shaky grounds. While Locke comes in for criticism, it is Kant who is the true progenitor of current problems. There is no universal cultur......more

Quotes

"A new book that will become a classic.... Yoram Hazony has written a magnificent affirmation of democratic nationalism and sovereignty. The book is a tour de force that has the potential to significantly shape the debate between the supporters of supranational globalism and those of national-state democracy."—National Review

"One of the most important books on one of the most important controversies of our time."—New Criterion

"[Hazony] cogently argues in the book that anyone who values his freedom should reject universalism and fight for a future of nations... [an] excellent book."—City Journal

"Hazony is both erudite and well reasoned."—American Conservative

"The Virtue of Nationalism is a brilliant achievement, at once learned and sharp, philosophical and politically engaged."—Jewish Review of Books

"A concise, thoughtful, strongly put case that resurgent nationalism is reason not for concern but for relief."—New York Sun

"Hazony presents a vigorous case for nationalism and its virtues."—National Interest

"The catastrophic failure of the liberal program opens the way for a new kind of political thinking, and Hazony offers a timely contribution to the debate."—Tablet

"Important.... Hazony continues to do a service in reviving the theory of nationalism at a moment when its empirical manifestations have become impossible to ignore. He also presents a model of engaged political philosophy--learned yet accessible, spirited but not excessively hostile."—Modern Age

"A thought-provoking book."—Publishers Weekly