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The Rubin Report

The Real Reason That Traditional Conservatism Needs to Be Replaced | James Orr

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to James Orr about the tension between networks and institutions; the adaptability and resilience of networks compared to the linear growth of institutions; the need for institutions to renew themselves amidst corruption and paralysis; the importance of conserving timeless principles over preserving institutions for their own sake; the cultural challenges facing academic institutions like Oxford and Cambridge; the influence of American political dynamics on the UK; the potential for positive change inspired by developments in the US; and much more. #RubinReport #JamesOrr #conservatives #Oxford #cambridge #UK #britishculture #british #ARC #daverubin ----------------------------------------------- Reserve your 1st edition copy of our new book, The Best of Our Inheritance. Pre-Order open until March 14, 2025: Link to book: https://www.arcforum.com/store/p/the-best-of-our-inheritance-arc-research YouTube - @arc_conference Twitter - @arc_forum IG - @arc_forum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8

We got to the point where our institutions have got so paralyzed and corrupt and captured

0:34.3

that we really do have to think of alternative ways. I mean, David Brooks this morning,

0:41.7

bless him, was trying to say, you know, the MAGA movement, Trump, these are anti-this-they're not conservatives because they want to tear down the institutions. And conservatives

0:46.4

should want to conserve the institutions. There's not what conservatives want to conserve. Conservatives want

0:50.6

to conserve timeless principles. Right, the valuable things. Exactly.

0:54.6

And institutions are the vehicles and the instruments for implementing those timeless values.

0:58.7

And if those institutions have shown themselves, however long they've been around, however

1:02.2

they've noble they may seem to be, but if they've shown themselves to be completely

1:05.4

incapable in implementing those values, quite the reverse, eroding them, then the

1:09.8

conservative position is to pull them down.

1:19.4

All right, James Orr, I'm doing a ton of interviews while I'm here at Arc. You're the only person

1:23.0

that I'm actually going to read the bio for. Some of them were just putting some some information beneath their name, but you got a lot of stuff here,

1:29.3

so let's just do it.

1:30.4

James Orr is the associate professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Cambridge,

1:35.2

chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation, UK, and director of UK programs for Trinity Forum Europe.

1:41.7

That kind of sums up what this whole art conference is about, doesn't it?

1:46.3

It does.

1:46.6

Little political, little philosophical, little religious, little of everything.

1:49.9

Yeah, I think so.

1:50.8

And that kind of delicate tango between the institutional and the networked and how we think about,

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