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Commentary By Alexander Phipps is an administrative and research assistant in the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson went on the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” recently to defend his decision to veto a bill that would have prohibited minors in his state from receiving gender-transition medical procedures. Hutchinson, a Republican, said that the principles of limited government espoused by William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan compelled him to permit subjecting children to life-altering drugs and surgery without a...

5 . 20 . 21 The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Sohrab Ahmari joins the podcast to discuss his recent book

Author Sohrab Ahmari talks about his journey that brought him to Catholicism. Writer Sohrab Ahmari left the repression in his home country of Iran to find freedom in an icon of the West – the United States. But in his own telling, his new home revealed how excessive freedom can enslave rather than liberate. Ahmari's new book, "The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos," seeks to reorient Americans' interest in freedom and direct them toward what he sees as its proper ends. More specifically, it's a guide for his young son, Maximilian, who was born into a so...

Penguin Random House Washington D.C., May 13, 2021 / 19:00 pm (CNA). A Catholic author says his new book on the “wisdom of tradition” is meant to be an antidote to a false notion of human freedom. “I’m not a theologian. I’m not a philosophe...

Sohrab Ahmari: The Perversion of Freedom and the Spiritual Crisis of Our Age In the 1960s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly penned “The Gulag Archipelago,” an indictment of the Soviet system that was so profound and damning that it helped usher the downfall of Soviet communism. Solzhenitsyn saw the evils of communism with stark clarity. But after he was exiled and moved to the United States, he would shock the world with his critique of the West, specifically the excessive freedoms he witnessed and the “abyss of human decadence.” What does true freedom mean? Is it possible for a man in...