fusionism

Explore " fusionism" with insightful episodes like "72 - Yoram Hazony on Conservatism, Classical Liberalism, and Coalition Building", "Stephanie Slade on Faith and Free Enterprise", "Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism", "Class 6: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America" and "Frank Meyer, Fusionism, and the Enduring Tension" from podcasts like ""Full Proof Theology", "Liberty and Leadership", "Know Your Enemy", "Counter-University Classroom" and "Conservative Conversations with ISI"" and more!

Episodes (7)

72 - Yoram Hazony on Conservatism, Classical Liberalism, and Coalition Building

In this interview with Dr. Yoram Hazony, we get into details regarding conservatism as both a tradition and a movement. We discuss the definition of conservatism as traditionalism. We dive into the differences between conservatism and classical liberalism. Recently, Giorgia Meloni was elected Prime Minister of Italy. Yoram offers his perspective on her election and her alignment with a movement like national conservatism. We close out discussing coalition building and partnership with classical liberals who see the rise of woke neo-Marxism as a major problem.

Bio - Yoram Hazony, the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and president of the Herzl Institute, is the leading proponent of the National Conservatism movement, which is invigorating the American and European right. His previous book, The Virtue of Nationalism, won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Conservative Book of the Year award in 2019. A graduate of Princeton University (B.A.) and Rutgers University (Ph.D.), he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.

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Full Proof Theology

en-usDecember 12, 2022

Stephanie Slade on Faith and Free Enterprise

This week, we have another amazing TFAS alumna on the Liberty + Leadership Podcast: Reason Magazine senior editor and a 2016 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship winner, Stephanie Slade. In addition to being a regular contributor to the U.S. News and World Report, Stephanie is also a fellow at the Acton Institute. In this week's episode, Roger and Stephanie discuss the separation between church and state, libertarianism, integrity in journalism, and the future of political parties.

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Liberty and Leadership

en-usJuly 13, 2022

Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism

Matt and Sam dedicate an entire episode to an under appreciated but indispensable figure in the founding of post-war conservatism: Frank Meyer, the father of "fusionism."

Meyer was a man of contradictions: an ex-communist ideologue who longed for consensus; a cantankerous, unyielding debater who kept his friends and rivals close; a bohemian, individualist Jew who argued vociferously for freedom and against repressive orthodoxies, but who converted to Catholicism on his death bed. In this episode, we explore his life, work, and legacy — including a close reading of his most famous book, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo. Along the way, we ask some big questions: Why was it so important for Meyer to find a philosophical justification for fusing the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement? How did he go about doing it? And did it work?

Today, many — especially younger — conservatives consider fusionism to be a dead consensus, a marriage of erstwhile convenience in which one partner, economic libertarians, got everything they wanted, while the other, Christian traditionalists, have seen unfettered capitalism and licentious liberalism destroy the precious permanent things they had hoped to conserve: Church, family, and community. As the seams of the fusionist alliance fray, we look back to the man who conceived it in the first place.

This one is for the nerds. We hope you enjoy it!

Further Reading:

Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo (Regnery, 1962)

George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (Basic Books, 1976)

Jeffrey Hart, The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times (ISI Books, 2006)

Garry Wills, Confessions of a Conservative (Doubleday, 1979)

Kevin J. Smant, Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement (ISI Books, 2002)

Various, "Against the Dead Consensus," First Things, March 21, 2019

Frank S Meyer, "The Twisted Tree of Liberty," National Review Jan 16, 1962

L. Brent Bozell Jr. "Freedom or Virtue," National Review, Sept 11, 1962

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