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Category Archives: Yoram Hazony
‘Yoram Hazony | What Winning Looks Like, and How We Could Lose | NatCon 5’ (Sep. 2, 2025)
This speech is more candid than anything Hazony puts in writing. He admits the right’s antisemitism problem in public. He names the pattern without naming the men. “Some of them people I used to admire” who have made a turn … Continue reading
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‘Marx was not Woke’
In April, 2023, Paul Gottfried reviewed in Chronicles magazine the 2022 Yoram Hazony book Conservatism: A Rediscovery: Marx was not in the least concerned with nonbinary oppression, raging homophobia, or the inherently evil nature of being white. This father of … Continue reading
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Yoram Hazony & the Custodianship Question
Hazony inverts the consensus school’s move at every step. The consensus historians dissolved Jewish particularity into American universalism so they could enter Protestant institutions. Hazony reconstructs particularity to defend a Jewish nation against the universalism those same Jews helped build. … Continue reading
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Covenant Against Empire: The Project of Yoram Hazony
Part Two Yoram Reuben Hazony (b. 1964) belongs to a small group of contemporary thinkers who build not only books but movements. He writes philosophy, founds institutes, recruits donors, organizes conferences, and places himself at the center of a global … Continue reading
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Yoram Hazony: My Contacts With Tucker Carlson About Anti-Semitism on His Show
Yoram Hazony writes: A few weeks ago, a mutual friend asked me if I’d be willing to speak to Tucker Carlson off the record. I agreed and Tucker called me three weeks ago to talk. I continued texting with him … Continue reading
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Decoding Yoram Hazony
ChatGPT says: Yoram Hazony is best decoded, through Alliance Theory, as a coalition re-founder whose project is to replace a failing elite moral alliance with a rival one grounded in loyalty, tradition, and bounded sovereignty. Start with Pinsof’s premise. Moral … Continue reading
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Yoram Hazony vs His Critics
ChatGPT says: Using Alliance Theory, the fight is not about truth claims. It is about coalition control and contamination risk. Yoram Hazony is being challenged on whether national conservatism is a safe alliance for Jews and for institutions that cannot … Continue reading
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Reactions To Yoram Hazony’s Anti-Semitism Speech Reflect Pre-Existing Alliances
ChatGPT says: Pre-existing political orientation is doing most of the work here. Alliance Theory predicts this almost mechanically. Yoram Hazony is not being evaluated primarily on truth or consequences. He is being evaluated on coalition fit. Nationalist-leaning Jews tend to … Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism and the American Right
Yoram Hazony says: My speech at the Second International Conference on Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, January 27, 2026. I. Anti-Semitism in the Republican Party I’d like to say a few words today about the place of Jews—and of anti-Semites—in the Republican … Continue reading
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What Drives Yoram Hazony & National Conservatism?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism not as a new ideology, but as an attempt to reorganize and stabilize a fractured right-wing alliance by giving it a coherent rival map, moral language, and elite coordination layer. … Continue reading
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