There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th.

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

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I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is one of the founders of the National Conservatism

Conference, President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and author of the brand new book,

Conservatism, Rediscovery, Yoram Hazoni, welcome back to the Rubin Report.

Hi Dave, thanks for having me back.

It's good to see you my friend, I sense by that background you are not in the Holy Land,

but perhaps a slightly less Holy Land at the moment.

I'm here in DC, I actually want to be with you in Florida, but you guys didn't have

like room in the studio for me or something, so I'm in DC.

It's a very busy, I just got back from tour.

You're on the short list of people I would have been willing to have here at the house,

but let's dive right into the book, because first off I've got it in my hand.

This is a dense, powerful book full of a whole bunch of the ideas that you've been talking

about for really decades at this point, but I want to read just the first paragraph

off the back flap here, because I think you say something very interesting that I think

is the thing that sort of connects both of us.

You say conservatism as we know it has failed, while liberalism was eroding the foundations

of our culture, the family, the nation and religion, conservatives adopted the very

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