The “National Conservatism Conference,” which I attended last week after having previously billed it as “2019’s most important intellectual gathering,” came to a close last Tuesday. Organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation, a new group led by Yoram Hazony and David Brog, the Conference featured an ambitious agenda that sought to build off Hazony’s award-winning 2018 tome on nationalism and promulgate a forward-looking intellectual paradigm and substantive agenda for a rejuvenated, nationalist-inspired Right. The choice of the great British statesman Burke as the eponymous symbol of the Conference’s organizing Foundation was intentional: The conservatism advanced here was of a distinctly traditionalist hue that put much of the post-1950s right-of-center American political consensus squarely in its crosshair.
The Conference received no shortage of media attention — representing the full gamut of political viewpoint. And pushback from all the traditional targets of Hazony’s philosophical ire — be they leftists, libertarians, neoliberals, or neoconservatives — was certainly expected.
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