New Culture Forum

The Virtue of Nationalism - Reversing the Progressive Revolution in Britain & America. Yoram Hazony

Nationalism is the issue of our age, argues our guest on this week's NCF Whittle. In his reissued book "The Virtue of Nationalism", Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony, Director of the Edmund Burke Foundation and a key figure in the National Conservative movement in the USA, makes the positive case for nationalism in an honest, reasoned, morally unflinching way. His book offers an eye-opening rethinking of the modern political experience.It recounts how English, Dutch, Scots and American Protestants revived the Old Testament’s love of national independence—and how their nationalism freed them from the vision of world empire promoted by the German-Catholic Holy Roman Emperors. It was this Protestant reconstruction of the political world that brought national freedom to peoples from Poland to India, and from Israel to Ethiopia.But since the 1960s, the tide has turned against the ideal of national independence. Both in America and Europe, “globalists” now see unfettered national self-determination as having been responsible for two World Wars and the Holocaust. The answer they have offered us—“global governance”—is well-intentioned. Yet in advancing it, they have reawakened hatreds they didn’t count on: The old war between Protestant nationalists and Catholic universalists that destroyed much of Europe in the 17th century has returned.Hazony argues that in view of this renewed clash between nationalism and universalism, we will have to make a choice: Either a world of independent states, or a renewal of the ideal of universal empire—which means, inevitably, American empire.The Virtue of Nationalism compares the options before us, and suggests that if it’s freedom we want, we should fight to preserve a world of independent nations.

Labour is SILENCING Truth Tellers + Manchester Airport THUG Convicted + Trump Humiliates Starmer

On today's #NCFNewspeak, Amy Gallagher of Stand Up to Woke is joined by political commentators David Oldroyd-Bolt and Peter Barnes to discuss:The Online Safety ActThe Manchester Airport ConvictionsTrump's Visit to Scotland

Speak While You Can - Britain's Authoritarian New Online Safety Act is a Huge Blow to Free Speech

Peter Whittle on the dangerous new censorship in Britain.

Labour Slurs Farage With Sick Savile Jibe + Proof Essex Police LIED About Epping Protests

On today's #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Connor Tomlinson and Charlie Downes are joined by David Shipley, a commentator on justice, police, crime and prisons.

Liverpool's Tragic Decline: Immigration, Asylum, Islam & Institutional Cowardice: (Heresies: Ep. 15)

Liverpool has changed. Not just in the organic way that history usually demands but drastically and in the space of only a few years. This unprecedented demographic change has had profound consequences on the population and is fraying the fabric of an otherwise socially harmonious city.Journalist and best-selling author Peter Lloyd presents this special report on the transformation taking place in his home town of Liverpool, mirroring changes around the country."The Strange Death of Liverpool" is episode 15 of our acclaimed documentary series #NCFHeresies