Fifteen years ago, Yoram Hazony was a medium-size star in the small constellation of conservative Jewish intellectuals. He was provost of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, a conservative think tank he had founded in the nineties, and headed up its Institute for Advanced Study. He taught Jewish and conservative ideas to college-aged students during semester breaks, organized occasional academic conferences, and published his own brand of conservative biblical and political scholarship in books and blog posts. Most American conservatives, even in the activist class, had probably not heard his name, and surely could not have pronounced it if they had.…