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God, my voice is back. I'm so psyched.

I have done my duty, my civic duty.

I've got my COVID-19 shot, and I went to see bros, the most important

things for any homosexual citizens do, we're told.

And I'm back and ready in the studio in Washington, D.C. And this week we have a conversation

which I've been looking forward to because it's on my pet topic, really, and it's political theory.

And we've invited Yoram Hazoni, who is a philosopher, a Bible scholar, a political theorist.

He founded the Shailom Center, a research institute in Israel, and his currently president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and serves as chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation in D.C., the author of many books, including The Virtue of Nationalism. His most recent that we're going to talk about today is conservatism, a rediscovery.

You're welcome, and thanks for joining us all the way from Jerusalem.

Andrew, it's a pleasure.

Thank you so much for having me.

You're so welcome.

Tell me, because we always start with this, tell me where you were born and grew up and who your parents were

and how they affected the way you emerged as an adult

or a young adult in society?

I was born in Rojovot, in Israel.

I was the son of a physicist.

When I was a year old, my father took up a position at Princeton University in what was then the very beginning of computer science.

And I kind of grew up in an Israeli cocoon there in Princeton.

And much of my outlook came from, I think, from my father's worldview,

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