@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
US Editor, UnHerd. Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
Israel is losing the US front.
Emily Jashinsky for UnHerd.
unherd.com/2025/08/isra...
Micheal Wear, who directed Obama's faith outreach, makes a profoundly important point:
Democrats will NOT win or serve America by simply opposing Trump or imitating his meanness.
unherd.com/2025/07/will...
Unbelievably corrupt things are happening over at the Trump DOJ when it comes to antitrust.
Gail Slater, Trump's anti-monopoly czar, is under pressure because she objected to the HPE-Juniper merger, hashed out between officials and company executives over cocktails. unherd.com/2025/07/the-...
Micheal Wear, who directed Obama's faith outreach, makes a profoundly important point:
Democrats will NOT win or serve America by simply opposing Trump or imitating his meanness.
unherd.com/2025/07/will...
Corporate America absolutely mastered how to not just blunt the Right's populist energies but to turn them against actual populist reformers.
unherd.com/2025/07/the-...
Unbelievably corrupt things are happening over at the Trump DOJ when it comes to antitrust.
Gail Slater, Trump's anti-monopoly czar, is under pressure because she objected to the HPE-Juniper merger, hashed out between officials and company executives over cocktails. unherd.com/2025/07/the-...
The triumph of the lowbrow:
Media technology and economic inequality turned us all into slobs.
This is one of the best pieces of cultural criticism Iβve read in a long time, by Ryan Zickgraf for @unherd.com
unherd.com/2025/07/the-...
The shooting in Manhattan (in my hood) is Zohran Mamdaniβs first big test.
He can show he has decisively left behind his childish views on law and order from 2020 β or he can live down to his criticsβ picture of him as an avatar of βpeak woke.β
My take.
unherd.com/newsroom/man...
I'll be delivering a lecture at Villanova Law on Popes Leo XIII and Leo XIV, and the renewal of Christian democracy.
His Eminence Cardinal Robert McElroy, John Dilulio (UPenn), Catherine Pakaluk (Catholic U), and Lisa Cahill (BC) have kindly agreed to respond.
That will be Sept. 29. Details soon.
How Democrats can win back the Trumpian working class.
Detailed, evidence-based vision from my friend (and Teamster activist) Dustin Guastella.
unherd.com/2025/07/how-...
Both woke-ism and the conspiracist Right arise from the failure of the paternal function in its strictly Freudian sense: of the father as the figure who inducts the family into the symbolic order β law, rationality.
My take on EDDINGTON.
unherd.com/2025/07/eddi...
"In the new West, the cowboys are no less in thrall to corporate power than the Indians."
I wrote about EDDINGTON. unherd.com/2025/07/eddi...
Ari Aster's EDDINGTON is the first Western that actually takes seriously the closing of the West.
My review essay for UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/07/eddi...
Both woke-ism and the conspiracist Right arise from the failure of the paternal function in its strictly Freudian sense: of the father as the figure who inducts the family into the symbolic order β law, rationality.
My take on EDDINGTON.
unherd.com/2025/07/eddi...
"In the new West, the cowboys are no less in thrall to corporate power than the Indians."
I wrote about EDDINGTON. unherd.com/2025/07/eddi...
Ari Aster's EDDINGTON is the first Western that actually takes seriously the closing of the West.
My review essay for UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/07/eddi...
This vile motherfucker.
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"The viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance, and control. An obsession with other peopleβs private lives is a sickness."
Stop sharing that Coldplay-couple story, writes Matt Gasda unherd.com/2025/07/the-...
Wow, really makes you think. This is totally not a problem that religious thought -- Jewish, Christian, Muslim -- has grappled with for millennia.
18.07.2025 18:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yesterday: Druze minority rights!
Today:
A new generation of liberal-centrist podcasters are replicating the worst aspects of Right-wing media.
Must-read Ryan Zickgraf for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/07/turn...
I'm scheduled to be on Fox & Friends tomorrow at 8:20 a.m. EST, talking about the Democratic establishment's obsession with "loyalty" and why young Dems aren't listening anymore.
16.07.2025 21:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You started an argument with me on the basis of a spurious point, which you can't seem to defend. So here we are.
15.07.2025 20:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When I was *for* IQ/eugenics, dipshit?
15.07.2025 18:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0We're delighted to welcome Ross Barkan as a fortnightly columnist for @unherd.bsky.social, writing at the intersection of New York politics and the national Democrats.
Ross's prose, analysis, and humane progressive politics will be a huge asset for us.
Before World War II, eugenics was very much a "progressive" project, embraced by the likes of the civil libertarian Clarence Darrow ("chloroform the unfit!"), Harvard's Earnest Hooton, Margaret Sanger, sundry founders of modern social work, etc.
15.07.2025 13:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In fairness, Catholic communitarian post-liberalism (anti is too strong) is fundamentally inimical to this sort of monstrosity; it can't help but oppose it.
Whereas autonomy-maximizing liberalism can be in a continuum with IQ worship and the valuing of life only insofar as it is fully autonomous.
The piece Sohrab is talking about www.vox.com/politics/418...
15.07.2025 13:07 β π 30 π 7 π¬ 2 π 1"I will happily join an old-school united front with liberals and the left against skull-measurers, IQ-worshippers. It's really the most terrifying politics there is."
What I told @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social of @vox.com a few weeks ago.
Count on it.
Unfortunately, I think it's not so much, e.g., the Medicaid cuts as it is Epstein (and relatedly, the war in Iran and the arming of Ukraine).
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