@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
US Editor, UnHerd. Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
"The hawks and Atlanticists still operate on the assumption that Americaβs and Europeβs strategic interests are deeply aligned. Trump, like many ordinary Americans and Europeans, understands that the age of alignment is over."
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The triumph of the Trump doctrine.
Yes, the execution is messy, but Trump is finally reorienting American strategy to deal with 2025 realities (rather than 1950s ones).
Brilliant essay by Heather Penatzer (@cloutatlas.bsky.social) for UnHerd. unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
When migrant communities can mass-import their relatives via the family-preference program, the result is ghettoized enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like theyβre still living back home β only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
Meet the people still live in the Eternal 2020.
Ryan Zickgraf writes beautifully about the perma-maskers, more in sadness than in anger.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
"Meeting others face-to-face is a fundamental aspect of physical, mental, and even political health. But in the eyes of Zero Covid activists, I had committed an inexcusable offence β telling people to get a life."
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A small but hyper-online group still believes that masks are always necessary, indoor gatherings are inherently suspect, and any attempt to resume normal everyday social life post-pandemic is problematic.
Meet the last Covidians.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians.
MUST-READ essay by Ryan Zickgraf, reflecting on the sad lives and deaths of two leaders in the community of people who believe the pandemic never ended, and who never stopped masking.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Meet the people still live in the Eternal 2020.
Ryan Zickgraf writes beautifully about the perma-maskers, more in sadness than in anger.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians.
MUST-READ essay by Ryan Zickgraf, reflecting on the sad lives and deaths of two leaders in the community of people who believe the pandemic never ended, and who never stopped masking.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
"Meeting others face-to-face is a fundamental aspect of physical, mental, and even political health. But in the eyes of Zero Covid activists, I had committed an inexcusable offence β telling people to get a life."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
A small but hyper-online group still believes that masks are always necessary, indoor gatherings are inherently suspect, and any attempt to resume normal everyday social life post-pandemic is problematic.
Meet the last Covidians.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
When migrant communities can mass-import their relatives via the family-preference program, the result is ghettoized enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like theyβre still living back home β only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
"It would be nice if, when I am on an airplane, the pilot would announce: 'We have a Heritage American on the flight today, please give him a round of applause.' "
The inimitable Michael Lind, exclusively for UnHerd subscribers.
unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
βI donβt know whether I am a simple white, a non-Hispanic white, a MENA, a Jew, a second-degree Mischling, or a Heritage American.β
The great Michael Lind torches the concept of "Heritage America."
This is a historic essay, IMO. unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
Enough of the literary "it girl" promoting porn logic.
Valerie Stivers reviews Anika Levy's novel.
unherd.com/2025/11/enou...
In defense of @jd-vance-1.bsky.social's pro-robot, anti-immigration stance.
As long as firms can exploit cheap migrant labor, they have few incentives to invest in labor-saving technology.
unherd.com/newsroom/in-...
Enough with the Kennedy Nepo Babies.
Writes Ryan Zickgraf.
unherd.com/2025/11/so-t...
Wokeness made unreasonable demands on white people to assume collective guilt.
Now the backlash is here.
Can black America survive it?
The great Glenn Loury makes his debut as an exclusive UnHerd essayist.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
In the mid-2010s, Dr. Paul McHugh, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist who shut down the university's gender clinic, emerged as the trans movement's Public Enemy No. 1.
But now, as gender fanaticism recedes, he's being recognized as a clear-eyed dissident.
My profile.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
How woke and anti-woke erase blackness.
The great Glenn Loury makes his debut as an EXCLUSIVE UnHerd subscriber.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
Paul McHugh, the former head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, became the trans movement's Enemy No. 1.
His crime? Questioning the benefits of sex reassignment surgery (you know, "evidence-based medicine").
Now at 94? He's vindicated.
My profile.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
βAt the beginning of the 21st century, it was no longer that I was wrong. It was that I was evil.β
My profile of Dr. Paul McHugh, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist whose skepticism of gender ideology led to his vilification, and now vindication. unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Paul McHugh, the former head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, became the trans movement's Enemy No. 1.
His crime? Questioning the benefits of sex reassignment surgery (you know, "evidence-based medicine").
Now at 94? He's vindicated.
My profile.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
βAt the beginning of the 21st century, it was no longer that I was wrong. It was that I was evil.β
My profile of Dr. Paul McHugh, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist whose skepticism of gender ideology led to his vilification, and now vindication. unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
In the mid-2010s, Dr. Paul McHugh, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist who shut down the university's gender clinic, emerged as the trans movement's Public Enemy No. 1.
But now, as gender fanaticism recedes, he's being recognized as a clear-eyed dissident.
My profile.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
"Is the 45th and 47th president of the United States a Russian matryoshka doll, whose well-coiffed head can be lifted off to reveal a figurine of Bush 43, which in turn contains Bush 41?"
Asks Michael Lind.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
How Trump remade conservatism: brilliant Michael Lind.
No, Trump isn't George Bush 2.0
He took elements of the Reagan/Bush fusion and ADDED elements of McKinley/Perot protectionism.
American realignments happen through addition, not subtraction.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
Populists are mad that Trump didn't replace the Buckley/fusionist conservatism completely.
Fusionist conservatives are mad that he changed it at all.
Both misunderstand him.
Smart Michael Lind, apropos of today's intra-Right / factional infighting.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
Are human beings evolutionarily wired for faith and worship?
This fascinating essay, by the writer Tim DeRoche, suggests that we are.
unherd.com/2025/11/can-...
βI was so young and completely emotionally immature and just obsessed with screaming my opinions at the top of my lungs and thinking that that was, like, helping democracy.β
The queen of millennial feminism has changed her mind.
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