New Culture Forum

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.

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

Peter Whittle on the dangerous new censorship in Britain.

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

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

The New Culture Forum visits Epping to speak with concerned residents who have been so distressed and alarmed at the arrival of undocumented migrants. The local council have now backed the protestors and are calling on the government to close the Bell Hotel. NCF Director Peter Whittle speaks with concerned residents.

On today's #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, NCF Senior Fellows Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dr. Philip Kiszely and Amy Gallagher of Stand Up to Woke discuss:* The Epping migrant protests and the police's complicity in bringing ANTIFA forces to protest* Reform unveils a raft of strong crime and prison policies as it seeks to become the toughest party on law & Order* Is Kemi Badenoch leadership quality?

On today's #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by writer and commentator Charlie Bentley-Astor.

Comedian, writer and cultural commentator Simon Evans speaks at the inaugural New Culture Forum Literary Festival.

On today's #NCFNewspeak, Amy Gallagher moderates a discussion between NCF Senior Fellows Dr. Philip Kiszely & Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and David Oldroyd-Bolt, Anglosphere Fellow at the Danube Institute.