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In his provocative new book The Unbroken Thread, US journalist Sohrab Ahmari calls for a new kind of Christian conservatism
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Print this article The Unbroken Thread, Ahmari, an editor at the New York Post, defends traditional ways of thinking by asking pointed questions that reveal the deficiencies of our modern worldview. But the state of tradition is surely not “unbroken” — it could be more accurately characterized as “hanging on by a thread.” The tenuous state of tradition makes it important to drag out the buried thesis of Ahmari’s book: We need a counterelite. The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, by Sohrab Ahmari. Convergent, 320 pp., $27. The Unbroken Threa...
NY Post editor Sohrab Ahmari joins Tucker Carlson to explain why he believes modern society lacks order and discusses the importance of tradition. New York Post editor Sohrab Ahmari, who was born in Iran and moved to the United States as a teenager, described his upbringing to Fox Nation’s "Tucker Carlson Today" and exposed what he said are "failings" of the establishment on both sides of the aisle. "In some ways I see the failings of both the establishment and the establishment right," Ahmari, who grew up in a nominally Muslim home under the Islamic regime and later converted to Catholi...