Sohrab Ahmari
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
US Editor, UnHerd.
Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
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The triumph of the Trump Doctrine
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"The hawks and Atlanticists still operate on the assumption that America’s and Europe’s strategic interests are deeply aligned. Trump, like many ordinary Americans and Europeans, understands that the age of alignment is over."
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Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
The December issue is here!🎄Inside:
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The December issue is here!🎄Inside:
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
- @sohrabahmari.bsky.social calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
Everybody has their own theory or diagnosis about the ails of our American political ecosystem. Mine is that the past decade and a half can be characterized as the mutual drifting away of both major parties from the ideals of Christian democracy.
"All of the most admirable tenets of Christian and social democracy could be traced back to the Leonine teaching."
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’
The fate of the 21st century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Everybody has their own theory or diagnosis about the ails of our American political ecosystem. Mine is that the past decade and a half can be characterized as the mutual drifting away of both major parties from the ideals of Christian democracy.
The Christian- and social-democratic model represents the fullest expression of Catholic Social Teaching, inaugurated in the late 19th century by Leo XIII.
My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’
The fate of the 21st century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Christian- and social-democratic model represents the fullest expression of Catholic Social Teaching, inaugurated in the late 19th century by Leo XIII.
My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
My @commonweal.bsky.social essay on its prospects in time of Leo XIV, based on my Villanova lecture
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
"All of the most admirable tenets of Christian and social democracy could be traced back to the Leonine teaching."
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’
The fate of the 21st century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"All of the most admirable tenets of Christian and social democracy could be traced back to the Leonine teaching."
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
"The hawks and Atlanticists still operate on the assumption that America’s and Europe’s strategic interests are deeply aligned. Trump, like many ordinary Americans and Europeans, understands that the age of alignment is over."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The triumph of the Trump Doctrine
unherd.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"The hawks and Atlanticists still operate on the assumption that America’s and Europe’s strategic interests are deeply aligned. Trump, like many ordinary Americans and Europeans, understands that the age of alignment is over."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
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-...
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-...
The triumph of the Trump doctrine
unherd.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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-...
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-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
When migrant communities can mass-import their relatives via the family-preference program, the result is ghettoized enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like they’re still living back home — only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
Minnesota welfare fraud exposes the failure of assimilation
There is no whitewashing this scandal: segments of the Somali community in Minneapolis have been engaged in systematic welfare fraud, and used some of the proceeds to fund the Al-Shabaab terror group ...
unherd.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
When migrant communities can mass-import their relatives via the family-preference program, the result is ghettoized enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like they’re still living back home — only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
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-...
Ryan Zickgraf writes beautifully about the perma-maskers, more in sadness than in anger.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians
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November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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-...
Ryan Zickgraf writes beautifully about the perma-maskers, more in sadness than in anger.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
"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 — telling people to get a life."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"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 — telling people to get a life."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
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-...
Meet the last Covidians.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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-...
Meet the last Covidians.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
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-...
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-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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-...
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-...
Ryan Zickgraf writes beautifully about the perma-maskers, more in sadness than in anger.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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-...
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-...
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-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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-...
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 — telling people to get a life."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"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 — telling people to get a life."
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
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-...
Meet the last Covidians.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The last of the Covidians
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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-...
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 they’re still living back home — only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
Minnesota welfare fraud exposes the failure of assimilation
There is no whitewashing this scandal: segments of the Somali community in Minneapolis have been engaged in systematic welfare fraud, and used some of the proceeds to fund the Al-Shabaab terror group ...
unherd.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
When migrant communities can mass-import their relatives via the family-preference program, the result is ghettoized enclaves in which newcomers can pretend like they’re still living back home — only with colder weather and thicker welfare nets.
My take. unherd.com/newsroom/min...
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...
The inimitable Michael Lind, exclusively for UnHerd subscribers.
unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
Confessions of a Heritage American
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November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"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...
The inimitable Michael Lind, exclusively for UnHerd subscribers.
unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
“I don’t know whether I am a simple white, a non-Hispanic white, a MENA, a Jew, a second-degree Mischling, or a Heritage American.”
The great Michael Lind torches the concept of "Heritage America."
This is a historic essay, IMO. unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
The great Michael Lind torches the concept of "Heritage America."
This is a historic essay, IMO. unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
Confessions of a Heritage American
unherd.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“I don’t know whether I am a simple white, a non-Hispanic white, a MENA, a Jew, a second-degree Mischling, or a Heritage American.”
The great Michael Lind torches the concept of "Heritage America."
This is a historic essay, IMO. unherd.com/2025/11/conf...
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...
Valerie Stivers reviews Anika Levy's novel.
unherd.com/2025/11/enou...
Enough of the Literary It Girl
unherd.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Enough of the literary "it girl" promoting porn logic.
Valerie Stivers reviews Anika Levy's novel.
unherd.com/2025/11/enou...
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-...
As long as firms can exploit cheap migrant labor, they have few incentives to invest in labor-saving technology.
unherd.com/newsroom/in-...
In defence of JD Vance’s pro-robot, anti-immigration stance
Is it inconsistent for JD Vance to embrace industrial automation while opposing low-wage migration? Yes, it is, according to a number of his critics in response to the Vice President’s remarks on robo...
unherd.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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-...
As long as firms can exploit cheap migrant labor, they have few incentives to invest in labor-saving technology.
unherd.com/newsroom/in-...
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-...
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-...
How woke and anti-woke erase blackness
unherd.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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-...
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-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
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-...
But now, as gender fanaticism recedes, he's being recognized as a clear-eyed dissident.
My profile.
unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
The prophet of gender madness
unherd.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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-...
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-...
The great Glenn Loury makes his debut as an EXCLUSIVE UnHerd subscriber.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
How woke and anti-woke erase blackness
unherd.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
How woke and anti-woke erase blackness.
The great Glenn Loury makes his debut as an EXCLUSIVE UnHerd subscriber.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
The great Glenn Loury makes his debut as an EXCLUSIVE UnHerd subscriber.
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
Reposted by Sohrab Ahmari
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-...
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-...
The prophet of gender madness
unherd.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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-...
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-...