A fascinating genealogy of a distinctive Anglo-American tradition of conservatism, rooted in pragmatic empiricism, biblical tradition, and common law jurisprudence. Hazony succeeds in outlining a distinctive conservatist political philosophy as well as explaining many of its great historical merits.

He also provides a compelling critique of liberalism's inability to sustain its own conditions of possibility and the atomising effect it has on society, driving mental health disorders, loneliness, deaths of despair and a collapse in traditional family life.