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Sohrab Ahmari

@sohrabahmari.bsky.social

US Editor, UnHerd. Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.

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Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 5d ago

A subset of my friends on the Right increasingly sound like some Central Asian Communist Party Politburo, warning the people not to be discouraged by “mental saboteurs” and “decadent intellectuals” who question the latest five-year plan amid famine.

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump's followers are now in thrall to a kind of schizo-politics. The US military is struggling to resupply interceptors. Meanwhile, I see MAGA die-hards on X being like, "Right, now let's get ready to conquer Mexico. YASSS!" A subset of America seems permanently trapped in fantasy.

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · last wk.

The last few years have left me thinking I'd rather disagree with a Fukuyama than to inhabit the mental world of a Hazony. Catholic post-liberalism was never comfortable with pinched nationalism, and we often took pains to distinguish ourselves. But Hazony (and others far nastier than he) won.

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · last wk.

There is no theorizing Trumpism (believe me, I devoted more energy to it than almost anyone else circa 2017-2019). I increasingly share Francis Fukuyama's view that it's just the follies of one especially unvirtuous man, now aggravated and now checked by his grasping hangers-on.

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Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · last wk.

One of the essentials of woke was the belief that changing language would solve crises or contradictions: "unhoused" instead of "homeless"; "birthing people" instead of mothers; etc. Trumpism is now doing the same as it fails: "New America," "Lake America," "Strait of Trump."

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gloria Steinem was a liberal Cold Warrior and patriot at heart. I’d know. In my young neocon days, she wrote the foreword to a very neocon book I put together. I recount the surreal experience here. unherd.com?post_type=ne...

Gloria Steinem: Cold Warrior, patriot, and spy

In 2010, I visited Gloria Steinem’s grand apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to ask her to write a foreword to an anthology about the Arab Spring that I’d edited. To my surprise, she accepted th...

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Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gloria Steinem was a Cold Warrior and patriot at heart. At a time when America was facing a very different set of ideological and geopolitical challenges, the late feminist icon stepped up for the nation. unherd.com/newsroom/glo...

Gloria Steinem: Cold Warrior, patriot, and spy

In 2010, I visited Gloria Steinem’s grand apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to ask her to write a foreword to an anthology about the Arab Spring that I’d edited. To my surprise, she accepted th...

unherd.com

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gloria Steinem was a liberal Cold Warrior and patriot at heart. I’d know. In my young neocon days, she wrote the foreword to a very neocon book I put together. I recount the surreal experience here. unherd.com?post_type=ne...

Gloria Steinem: Cold Warrior, patriot, and spy

In 2010, I visited Gloria Steinem’s grand apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to ask her to write a foreword to an anthology about the Arab Spring that I’d edited. To my surprise, she accepted th...

unherd.com

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gloria Steinem wrote the foreword to my first book: an anthology of essays about the Arab Spring, put together when I was 24. I had to visit her grand apartment to solicit this, one of my most surreal experiences: "Can I get you a beer?" (Gloria Steinem asked me that!) RIP.

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the real tragedy of the GOP’s El-Sayed desperation act: the party has been forced to trade a young, multiracial populist coalition for tired messaging fit only for an aging audience. My take. unherd.com/newsroom/the...

The Right’s attacks on Abdul El-Sayed reek of desperation

Can the Trumpian GOP and its media allies save the midterms — and perhaps the 2028 presidential election — by leaning hard into post-9/11-style themes about Muslim infiltration and the menace of “Shar...

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