@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
US Editor, UnHerd. Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
What distinguishes the Right’s influencers at the most basic level isn’t policy outside the aforementioned exceptions of immigration and vaccines — when was the last time you heard Candace Owens’s position on the size of government? —but a general conspiratorial outlook.
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"Americans who came of age in the post-9/11 era will recognize a replay of l’affaire Dixie Chicks."
Brilliant point from Dylan Partner on Bad Bunny vs. MAGA.
Read the whole thing!
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The post-Trump GOP will be even crazier.
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"The second Trump administration is seemingly going out of its way to alienate many of the young people, especially young men, who rallied to it in backlash to the censoriousness of the Left."
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For the past decade, the Left dourly policed US cultural life.
But MAGA is increasingly asserting cultural control in a way that recalls the post-9/11 GOP, giving the Left an opening to reclaim its sweet spot: that of the dissidents and underdogs.
Dylan Partner writes: unherd.com/2025/10/maga...
"The second Trump administration is seemingly going out of its way to alienate many of the young people, especially young men, who rallied to it in backlash to the censoriousness of the Left."
unherd.com/2025/10/maga...
Depends on if it took place in public spaces or not. If public (taxpayer-funded libraries and so on), no I wouldn't defend it. If private, I'd ignore it.
06.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Still abominable, but seems to have been a liberal wine-mom fad, very much of its moment circa 2019.
06.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For the past decade, the Left dourly policed US cultural life.
But MAGA is increasingly asserting cultural control in a way that recalls the post-9/11 GOP, giving the Left an opening to reclaim its sweet spot: that of the dissidents and underdogs.
Dylan Partner writes: unherd.com/2025/10/maga...
"Americans who came of age in the post-9/11 era will recognize a replay of l’affaire Dixie Chicks."
Brilliant point from Dylan Partner on Bad Bunny vs. MAGA.
Read the whole thing!
unherd.com/2025/10/maga...
In 2020, The Atlantic retracted a story on corruption in elite college admissions, by writer Ruth Shalit, and brutally attacked her reputation.
Now the mag has settled with her for $1 million.
She tells her side of the story for the first time to UnHerd unherd.com/2025/10/how-...
For the past decade, progressives dourly managed the culture while the Right were the rebels and underdogs.
Now MAGA is asserting cultural control; progressives, meanwhile, find themselves in their sweet spot: that of the underdog.
unherd.com/2025/10/maga...
In 2020, The Atlantic retracted a story on corruption in elite college admissions, by writer Ruth Shalit, and brutally attacked her reputation.
Now the mag has settled with her for $1 million.
She tells her side of the story for the first time to UnHerd unherd.com/2025/10/how-...
Sorry, but Pope Leo's blessing of the ice block was a perfectly orthodox gesture, inspired by the same social concern that animated his predecessors.
My @unherd.com column.
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A British academic has had her book canceled for insisting on the bodily nature of sex---just as Simone de Beauvoir, her intellectual icon, did.
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Susan Pickard was under contract to write a book on Simone de Beauvoir.
Then her publisher dropped the book because peer reviewers either ignored it or called it anti-trans.
Her real crime: insisting on bodily sex, foundational for Beauvoir.
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File under: progressive cancel culture --- Leftists canceling their own --- is far from dead. unherd.com/2025/10/how-...
02.10.2025 02:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
File under: progressive cancel culture --- Leftists canceling their own --- is far from dead. unherd.com/2025/10/how-...
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Is today's explosion of crank Right-wing "news" a return to 19th-century form, when newspapers were intensely partisan and not bothered much by standards of fairness and factual probity?
It's tempting to think so. But NO. unherd.com/2025/10/save...
Susan Pickard was under contract to write a book on Simone de Beauvoir.
Then her publisher dropped the book because peer reviewers either ignored it or called it anti-trans.
Her real crime: insisting on bodily sex, foundational for Beauvoir.
unherd.com/2025/10/how-...
I get why Owens is famous; I have also been at a lot of conservative events where everybody else gives a real speech and she rambles for 20 minutes. Flashy and charismatic but significantly dumber than the people she fights with.
01.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 121 🔁 10 💬 8 📌 0
‘Star-child podcasters and accounts thrive because they console their audiences about the failures of the Trumpian Right’ | Sohrab Ahmari
unherd.com/2025/10/save-us-from-the-crank-right/
Is today's explosion of crank Right-wing "news" a return to 19th-century form, when newspapers were intensely partisan and not bothered much by standards of fairness and factual probity?
It's tempting to think so. But NO. unherd.com/2025/10/save...
The Right's conspiratorial media system promotes mental degeneration and a sense of learned helplessness that can only yield destructive politics.
My latest UnHerd essay: "Save us from the crank Right."
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The American Right is suffering from a plague of malignant fantasies.
My latest.
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The American Right is suffering from a plague of malignant fantasies.
My latest.
unherd.com/2025/10/save...
107 days? Even 1,007 days couldn't have saved Kamala.
Brutal UnHerd review of her book by former Conan O'Brien writer John Allen Wooden.
unherd.com/2025/09/kama...
107 days? Even 1,007 days couldn't have saved Kamala.
Brutal UnHerd review of her book by former Conan O'Brien writer John Allen Wooden.
unherd.com/2025/09/kama...
In 2020, progressives sacralized George Floyd and hunted for heretics.
In 2025, the Right is doing the same around Charlie Kirk.
But noticing this isn’t some amazing insight: Both reaffirm that man is a religious animal.
My weekend essay.
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It was a brunch!
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