Subversive Podcast: Sohrab Ahmari - Wisdom at the Twilight of Liberalism

I speak to Sohrab Ahmari about being an outsider to the Western Tradition, loving the West without needing to love liberalism, about "facts don't care about your feelings" and other wishful thinking, about Progress with a capital P, about the emerging coalition of (actually) diverse thinkers and the cross-pollination happening outside the traditional parameters of left and right, about Twitter friends, and our mutual love of Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address, where he drops a prescient assortment of pills on a stunned crowd expecting an ode to the triumph of the West.  

Sohrab is the OpEd editor of the NYPost, and the author of “The New Philistines”, “From Fire, By Water” and the new book “The Unbroken Thread”

His recommended subversive thinker is 19th-century conservative political theorist Juan Donoso Cortés.* We had a little issue with Sohrab's mic picking up background sound in the first 10 minutes, but it is fixed after that. 

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