Sohrab Ahmari

6 days 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

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.