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Sohrab Ahmari
"The problem with liberalism is not that it has failed, but that it has succeeded according to its own logic."
Sohrab Ahmari is an Iranian-born American writer, columnist, editor and cultural critic, who challenges the limits of liberalism and exposes the spiritual costs of modernity. Once an atheist, now a Catholic convert, he draws on tradition, theology, and political theory to confront orthodoxies on both left and right.
He is the US editor of UnHerd, a founding editor of the online magazine Compact, a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald, and a columnist for First Things. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the New York Post, an editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary.
Ahmari is the author of The New Philistines (2016), a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts; From Fire, by Water (2019), a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Roman Catholicism; The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (2021) and Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It (2023).
"The problem with liberalism is not that it has failed, but that it has succeeded according to its own logic."
Sohrab Ahmari is an Iranian-born American writer, columnist, editor and cultural critic, who challenges the limits of liberalism and exposes the spiritual costs of modernity. Once an atheist, now a Catholic convert, he draws on tradition, theology, and political theory to confront orthodoxies on both left and right.
He is the US editor of UnHerd, a founding editor of the online magazine Compact, a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald, and a columnist for First Things. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the New York Post, an editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary.
Ahmari is the author of The New Philistines (2016), a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts; From Fire, by Water (2019), a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Roman Catholicism; The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (2021) and Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It (2023).
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