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The Book Club: Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke with Yoram Hazony

The Book Club

PragerU

Books, Arts

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The American Revolution led to the birth of a new, free nation, while the French Revolution led to blood and terror. What was the difference and what can we learn from history before it’s rewritten or forgotten entirely? Political theorist and Bible scholar Yoram Hazony joins Michael Knowles for a discussion about Edmund Burke’s treatise “Reflections on the Revolution in France.”

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Welcome back to the book club. I'm Michael Knowles. This month, finally, we are reading one of the most important books I've ever read, one of my favorite books, a book that is not by a modern liberal, not even by a classical liberal, but a work of political

0:25.8

philosophy by an actual conservative.

0:28.8

Edmund Burke, reflections on the revolution in France. But before we get to that, in our fast-paced world,

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We will be putting our minds in motion with the great Edmund Burke.

1:22.0

Here to help us do that is the great Yoram Hazoni,

1:26.1

the author of the virtue of nationalism,

1:29.4

the author of conservatism, a rediscovery, one of the great living conservative political

1:36.1

philosophers you do all sorts of things.

1:37.9

You run the Edmund Burke Foundation, you've got a certain interest in this man.

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