Sohrab Ahmari

Iranian-American writer and journalist

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2023 Released 'Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It'.
2022 After the Republican Party's disappointing midterm elections performance, Ahmari published an op-ed in The New York Times critiquing the party's campaign and suggesting more focus on working-class economic issues.
2021 Published 'The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos'.
September 5 2019 Ahmari and French engaged in an in-person political debate moderated by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
May 29 2019 Ahmari published the essay 'Against David French-ism' in the conservative religious journal First Things, intensifying the dispute by arguing that French was insufficiently socially conservative.
May 28 2019 David French responded to Ahmari's Twitter critique with an essay in National Review titled 'Decency Is No Barrier to Justice or the Common Good'.
May 26 2019 Ahmari expressed frustration on Twitter about a children's drag queen reading hour in Sacramento, California, criticizing it as 'transvestic fetishism' and arguing against a 'David French-ian third way' in the cultural civil war.
January 2019 Released spiritual memoir 'From Fire, by Water' about his conversion to Roman Catholicism, published by Ignatius Press.
October 20 2016 Published 'The New Philistines', a book critiquing identity politics in the arts, through Biteback Publishing.
2012 Co-edited 'Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran', an anthology of essays by young Middle Eastern dissidents, which received endorsements from Lech Wałęsa and Gloria Steinem.

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