I am President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, a public affairs and educational institute I founded together with Ofir Haivry in 2012. In addition, I serve as Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, a Washington-based organization that has hosted the National Conservatism Conference in the United States, Britain, and Europe since 2019. For more on national conservatism, take a look here.
My book The Virtue of Nationalism was published by Basic Books in September 2018. It has been selected as Conservative Book of the Year for 2019, and was an amazon #1 best-seller in the categories of International Diplomacy and Nationalism. You can read reviews of the book here.
My most recent book Conservatism: A Rediscovery was published by Regnery in May 2022. You can read reviews of the book here.
My previous books include The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which won the second place PROSE award for the best book of Theology and Religion from the Association of American Publishers; The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (Basic Books, 2000); A Jewish State: Herzl and the Promise of Nationalism (Sella Meir, 2020) [Hebrew]; and God and Politics in Esther (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
I have also edited several volumes on Jewish theology and political philosophy, including The Revelation at Sinai: What Does ‘Torah from Heaven’ Mean? with Gil Student and Alex Sztuden (Ktav, 2021); and The Question of God’s Perfection with Dru Johnson (Brill, 2019). In April 2016, I appeared with Morgan Freeman in his hit National Geographic miniseries “The Story of God.” You can watch us talk about God here.
Earlier, I founded and led the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem research institute that conducted nearly two decades of pioneering work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Bible, Talmud, Jewish and Zionist history, Middle East Studies and archaeology beginning in 1994. The Center’s publishing arm, Shalem Press, became Israel’s leading publisher of Western philosophy translated into Hebrew and published Azure magazine. In 2013, Shalem was accredited to grant Israel’s first Liberal Arts B.A., and formally became Shalem College. I served as President of Shalem from 1994-2002, and as Provost from 2005-2012. A journalistic write-up about my Shalem work is here.
After that, I served as a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education’s commission on General Studies and Liberal Arts programs in Israel’s universities and colleges, and was Director of the John Templeton Foundation’s project in Jewish Philosophical Theology during the years 2010-2018.
I was born in Rehovot, Israel, in 1964. I graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies in 1986, and completed my Ph.D. at Rutgers University in Political Theory in 1993. As an undergraduate, I founded and was the first editor of Princeton’s conservative student journal, The Princeton Tory . The first issue appeared in October 1984, when Ronald Reagan was President and Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of Britain.
I live in Jerusalem with my wife Yael Hazony. We have nine children.
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