The Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) is a national-conservative research organization that traces Anglo-American conservative tradition from its earliest days up through the 20th century. It is named for Edmund Burke, an 18th-century British politician and political thinker considered the father of conservatism.
The foundation holds the annual National Conference of Anglo-American Conservative Tradition, commonly called “NatCon.”
The foundation was co-founded in 2019 by Yoram Hazony, an Israeli conservative philosopher, and David Brog, former executive director of Christians United for Israel.
Yoram Hazony is the co-founder and chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He is also the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. Hazony is the author of The Virtue of Nationalism, which won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Conservative Book of the Year Award in 2019. Hazony is an Israeli conservative and has been named as the leading intellectual behind the national conservatism movement. Former Trump White House official Michael Anton said Hazony’s book was the intellectual basis for the “Trump Doctrine” in foreign policy. Hazony co-founded the Shalem Center, described as an American-style think tank based in Jerusalem, and he has aligned with Israel’s Likud Party.
In August 2022, the Edmund Burke Foundation published a statement of principles declaring the tenants of national conservatism. The statement had 10 principles: national independence; rejection of imperialism and globalism; national government; God and public religion; the rule of law; free enterprise; public research; family and children; immigration; and race.
On the topic of God and public religion, the statement reads: “The Bible should be read as the first among the sources of a shared Western civilization in schools and universities, and as the rightful inheritance of believers and non-believers alike. Where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted in Christianity and its moral vision, which should be honored by the state and other institutions both public and private.”