Sohrab Ahmari

New York

Founder and Editor at Compact Substack

US editor, @UnHerd. Author of THE UNBROKEN THREAD and TYRANNY, INC., for @PenguinRandom Writing my next book, on THE TRIUMPH OF NORMAL, for @HarperCollins

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Articles

How the BLM riots broke America

1 week ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

Black Lives MatterBLMNew YorkProtestsSocietyUSVibeshift On the night of 1 June 2020, almost exactly five years ago, gunshots rang out not far from my apartment in East Midtown Manhattan. As my wife and I anxiously scrolled news feeds, our kids — then ages three and one — slept, oblivious to the coruscating sirens that carried hints of chaos beyond our door.
Why Is Hawley the Only Republican Defending Medicaid?

2 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Sohrab Ahmari

Hawley – the Republican who has also done the most in Congress to build bridges with organised labor – is simply recalling the GOP to its own pledgesSource link
The war over the Catholic Church

3 weeks ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

CatholicEuropeFaithJD VancemigrantsPope LeoPopulism On Sunday, when the Vatican celebrates the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV, the highest US official in attendance will be JD Vance. The scene will be fraught, even if decorum and ceremonial prevent any overt awkwardness: the US Vice President embodies the insurgent populist spirit sweeping the developed world — against which the newly elected pontiff has spoken out, in particular when it comes to immigration.
US Trade Chief: Brexit liberated the UK

4 weeks ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

BrexitDonald TrumpEuropean UnionKeir StarmerPoliticsPremiumTradeUK-US trade dealUS US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is in a good mood. “This is a job that goes up and down, but I’m on an up today”, he tells UnHerd in his first major interview with a European outlet, conducted just ahead of the news conference in which the US-UK trade deal was announced.
Gail Slater’s war on monopoly

1 month ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

antitrust divisiondepartment of justiceElon Muskgail slaterMonopolyNeoliberalismSocietyUS Is the second Trump administration pursuing populism or tech-forward libertarianism? The preferred answer among its intelligent spokesmen and defenders is: Yes. That is, the Trumpians believe they can and must have the backing of America’s most innovative sectors — especially tech — as they attempt to rejigger the global economy to advantage the working-class Americans who twice elected Donald Trump.
Pope Francis, Trad Icon

1 month ago | firstthings.com | Sohrab Ahmari

The early years of Pope Francis’s reign coincided with an HBO show about a young, chain-smoking pontiff who takes the suggestive name Pius XIII and brings back the papal tiara upon taking office. For a small but influential cohort of conservative Catholic intellectuals—many of us converts to the faith—Jude Law’s Pius was the Roman pontiff we wished we had: a traditionalist with a revulsion for modernity born of his own abandonment by his hippie parents.
Transcript: UnHerd’s interview with JD Vance

1 month ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

Charles de GaulleEuropeJD VanceKeir StarmerPoliticsRussiaUKUkraineUSVolodymyr Zelensky UnHerd’s wide-ranging conversation with JD Vance, his first major interview with a European outlet since assuming office as Vice President, topped headlines in Britain, Europe, and America on Monday, sending the FTSE surging on news of a potential US-UK trade deal and prompting a positive response from the Starmer government.
JD Vance: My message to Europe

1 month ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

AmericaDonald TrumpinterviewJD VancePoliticsUS “It’s not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.” So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday, his first major interview with a European outlet since taking office as Vice President. The backdrop is a week of turmoil on financial markets triggered by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
How the Right sold out

2 months ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

Anti-WokecfpbElon MuskJeff BezosNew Dealoligarchspeak wokeSocietyUS Everyone knows about the transformation of Che Guevara from a murderous Marxist militant into a T-shirt icon. In recent years, Western elites did something similar to political movements from the Left and the Right, only on a much grander scale.
Hegseth and the Defense Revolution

Mar 1, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Sohrab Ahmari

"It was just a fucking mess." That’s how Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s new Defense Secretary, describes America’s post-9/11 wars. We are aboard his plane, flying home to Washington from Guantanamo Bay, where he had spent the day overseeing migrant-removal operations. This is all part of Trump’s push to gain "100% operational control of the southern border" as Hegseth summed up the mission before a gathering of the troops at the naval facility. Source link