The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony
The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony
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The Virtue of Nationalism

Author: Yoram Hazony

Narrator: JD Zimmer

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 06/24/2025


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.


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"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