{{short description|Iranian-American writer and journalist (born 1985)}} {{primary sources|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Sohrab Ahmari | image = Sohrab Ahmari in 2026.jpg | caption = Ahmari in 2026 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|02|01}} | birth_place = Tehran, Iran | education = Utah State University<br>University of Washington (BA)<br>Northeastern University (JD) | occupation = Journalist, editor, and writer | employer = ''Compact'' (2021–present)<br>''The New York Post'' (2018–2021)<br>''Commentary'' (2017–2018)<br>''The Wall Street Journal'' (2012–2017) | spouse = {{marriage|Ting Li|2014}} | children = 2 }} '''Sohrab Ahmari''' ({{langx|fa|سهراب احمری|translit=Sohrāb Aḥmarī|translit-std=ALA-LC}}; born February 1, 1985)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahmari |first1=Sohrab |title=My Family's Iranian Revolution |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-familys-iranian-revolution-11549035114 |accessdate=7 June 2019 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=1 February 2019}}</ref> is an Iranian-born American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction books. He is a founding editor of the online magazine ''Compact''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=2022-03-22 |title=Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/arts/compact-magazine-conservatives-marxists.html |access-date=2022-04-05 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He is a contributing editor of ''The Catholic Herald'', and a columnist for ''First Things''. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the ''New York Post'', an editor with ''The Wall Street Journal'' opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at ''Commentary''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sohrab Ahmari |url=https://www.amazon.com/Sohrab-Ahmari/e/B01MTB3U24/ |agency=Amazon }}</ref>
Ahmari is the author of ''The New Philistines'' (2016), a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts; ''From Fire, by Water'' (2019), a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Catholicism; ''The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos'' (2021) and ''Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It'' (2023).
==Early life and education== Ahmari was born in Tehran, Iran. In his 2012 book, ''Arab Spring Dreams'', he writes that he was interrogated by security officials about his parents and faced disciplinary action as a child for accidentally bringing a videocassette of ''Star Wars'' into school at a time when Western films were officially banned in the country.<ref name="dreams">{{cite book |last1=Ahmari |first1=Sohrab |last2=Weddady |first2=Nasser |date=8 May 2012 |title=Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmSSMnZPi4cC&pg=PA226 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |page=226 |isbn=9780230115927 }}</ref> In 1998, at the age of 13, Ahmari moved with his family to the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=17 October 2012 |title=Ben Affleck's War on the Ayatollahs |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444354004578060400188496128 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=1 October 2012 |title=How Iran Plays the U.S. |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/how-iran-plays-the-u-s/ |newspaper=Commentary }}</ref>
Ahmari earned a J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.<ref name="wsjbio">{{cite news |title=Sohrab Ahmari: Editorial Page Writer |url=http://topics.wsj.com/person/A/sohrab-ahmari/7117 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref> Between college and law school, Ahmari completed a two-year commitment to Teach for America in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas.<ref>{{cite news |date=Summer 2012 |title=Voice of the Arab Spring |url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24377634/15.Summer.2012.Final.pdf |newspaper=One Day: Teach For America Alumni Magazine }}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
While in law school, inspired in part by the protests following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential election, he began working as a freelance journalist, contributing pieces to publications such as ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', and ''Commentary'' among others.<ref name="ne">{{cite web |url=http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2012/03/arabspringdreams/ |title=New Arab Spring anthology gives 'raw access to authentic voices' |date=9 March 2012 |publisher=Northeastern University |access-date=2 December 2013 |archive-date=2 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702133219/http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2012/03/arabspringdreams/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=13 May 2012 |title=The Epic, Secret Struggle to Educate Iran's Bahais |url=https://chronicle.com/article/The-Epic-Secret-Struggle-to/131819/ |newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=1 February 2011 |title=Let's Get Westoxicated! |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/lets-get-westoxicated/ |newspaper=Commentary }}</ref>
==Career== After serving as a Robert L. Bartley fellow at ''The Wall Street Journal'' in 2012, Ahmari joined the publication as assistant books editor. He then served as an editorial page writer based in London, writing editorials and commissions and editing op-eds for ''The'' ''Journal's'' European edition.<ref name="wsjbio"/>
In these positions, Ahmari wrote book reviews,<ref>{{cite news |date=23 January 2012 |title=It Takes Two to Engage |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204409004577156850984253714 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=11 May 2012 |title=The Iranian Turning Point |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303513404577353640718058390 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=17 June 2012 |title=A Resentful Imagination |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303753904577450292459986930?mod=wsj_share_tweet |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref> op-eds,<ref>{{cite news |date=16 June 2013 |title=Behind Iran's 'Moderate' New Leader |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323566804578549262039104552 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=26 November 2013 |title=An Iranian Insider's View of the Geneva Deal |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304011304579219834225827504 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref> and conducted interviews with prominent politicians, activists, and intellectuals for ''The Journal's'' "Weekend Interview" feature.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 February 2015 |title=France's Anti-Terror, Free-Market Socialist |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sohrab-ahmari-frances-anti-terror-free-market-socialist-1425080405 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=3 June 2013 |title=Mojtaba Vahedi: Iran's Revolution From the Inside Out |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324216004578481270274888486 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=19 April 2013 |title=Leon Kass: The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324493704578428843742209304 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref>
== Political views == He had previously identified with neoconservatism and criticized politicians such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Marine Le Pen, whom he considered to stand for a global trend towards illiberalism and increasingly polarized populist politics.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-16 |title=Illiberalism: The Worldwide Crisis |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/sohrab-ahmari/illiberalism-worldwide-crisis/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Commentary Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-09-13 |title=The Terrible American Turn Toward Illiberalism |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/sohrab-ahmari/terrible-american-turn-toward-illiberalism/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Commentary Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> However, he became a more outspoken critic of progressivism after joining the conservative magazine ''Commentary'' and has since supported both Trump and Viktor Orbán.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kirchick |first=James |date=February 2, 2022 |title=When the Pope Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie, That's Ahmari |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sohrab-ahmari |work=Tablet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-10-29 |title=Opinion {{!}} Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republican Party |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sohrab-ahmari.html |access-date=2023-04-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Ahmari is pro-life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Nathanael |title=Opinion: Neither an Ahmarist nor a Frenchman be |url=https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/07/13/opinion-neither-an-ahmarist-nor-a-frenchman-be/ |access-date=June 30, 2025 |work=The Catholic World Report|date=July 13, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> After the Republican Party's disappointing turnout in the 2022 midterm elections, he published an op-ed in ''The New York Times'' that blamed this on the lack of a coherent campaign message and suggested that the American right-wing should do more to address economic difficulties facing the working class.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=2022-11-10 |title=Opinion {{!}} Why the Red Wave Didn't Materialize |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/opinion/republicans-midterms-workers-populists.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>[[File:Sohrab Ahmari at MCC Budapest Peace Forum, 2023.jpg|left|thumb|Sohrab Ahmari speaking at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in June 2023]]
===Dispute with David French=== A high-profile dispute between Ahmari and ''National Review'' writer David French broke out over the summer of 2019 as a result of the publication of Ahmari's polemic "Against David French-ism", sparking numerous essays and commentaries in politically conservative publications like ''National Review'' and ''The American Conservative'',<ref name="conservative">Conservative publications: * {{cite news |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jonah |title=The Conservative Divide |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/conservative-divide-libertarians-moralists/amp/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The National Review |date=12 June 2019}} * {{cite news |last1=Dreher |first1=Rod |title=Sohrab Ahmari Vs. David French |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sohrab-ahmari-vs-david-french/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The American Conservative |date=30 May 2019}} * {{Cite news|last=Reno|first=R.R.|date=31 May 2019|title=What Liberalism Lacks|work=First Things|url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/05/what-liberalism-lacks}} * {{Cite news|last=Dougherty|first=Michael Brendan|date=30 May 2019|title=In Defense of David French|work=National Review|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/defense-of-david-french/}} * {{Cite news|last=Cooke|first=Charles C.W.|date=30 May 2019|title=Okay, Sohrab Ahmari, but Why Did You 'Snap'?|work=National Review|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/okay-sohrab-ahmari-but-why-did-you-snap/}} * {{cite news |last1=Boose |first1=Matthew |title=Sohrab Ahmari Is Right: Politics Is War |url=https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/06/04/sohrab-ahmari-is-right-politics-is-war/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=American Greatness |date=4 June 2019}}</ref> as well as in moderate and progressive outlets like ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''The Atlantic''.<ref name="left-leaning"> Left-leaning publications: * {{cite news |last1=Douthat |first1=Ross |title=What Are Conservatives Actually Debating? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/conservatives-david-french-trump.html |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=4 June 2019}} * {{Cite news|last=Wallace-Wells|first=Benjamin|date=12 September 2019|title=David French, Sohrab Ahmari, and the Battle for the Future of Conservatism|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/david-french-sohrab-ahmari-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-conservatism}} * {{cite news |last1=Serwer |first1=Adam |title=The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/ahmari-french-orban/591697/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The Atlantic |date=14 June 2019}} * {{cite news |last1=Coaston |first1=Jane |title=David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari and the battle dividing conservatives, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/6/5/18637391/david-french-sohrab-ahmari-conservatism-libertarians-divide |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=Vox |date=5 June 2019}} * {{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Alan |title=What a Clash Between Conservatives Reveals |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/conservative-christians-need-stay-civil/590866/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The Atlantic |date=3 June 2019}} * {{Cite news|last=Kircher|first=Madison Malone|date=13 June 2019|title=Talking to the Drag Queen Who Pissed Off Sohrab Ahmari by Reading to Kids|work=New York Magazine|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/sohrab-ahmaris-least-favorite-drag-queen-christian-aguirre.html}}</ref>
The dispute began on May 26, 2019, when Ahmari expressed on Twitter his frustration with a Facebook advertisement for a children's drag queen reading hour at a library in Sacramento, California, which he described as "transvestic fetishism". In the tweet, Ahmari argued that there is no "polite, David French-ian third way around the cultural civil war".<ref name="French2">{{cite news |last1=French |first1=David |title=Decency Is No Barrier to Justice or the Common Good |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/decency-is-no-barrier-to-justice-or-the-common-good/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The National Review |date=28 May 2019}}</ref> This prompted a response from French in a May 28 essay in ''National Review'' entitled "Decency Is No Barrier to Justice or the Common Good".<ref name="French2" /> The dispute escalated significantly after Ahmari published the essay "Against David French-ism" in the conservative religious journal ''First Things'' on May 29, 2019.<ref name="Ahmari">{{cite news |last1=Ahmari |first1=Sohrab |title=Against David French-ism |url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/05/against-david-french-ism |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=First Things |date=29 May 2019}}</ref> In the essay, Ahmari argued that French was insufficiently socially conservative, and that his belief in individual autonomy was contributing to the overall degradation of American society.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ahmari |first1=Sohrab |title=Against David Frenchism |url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/05/against-david-french-ism |website=First Things |date=29 May 2019 |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref> The direct targeting of French and the ''impromptu'' creation of the "David French-ism" political philosophy led the essay to gain significant notoriety, prompting a response from French<ref name="French3">{{cite news |last1=French |first1=David |title=What Sohrab Ahmari Gets Wrong |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/david-french-response-sohrab-ahmari/amp/ |accessdate=30 June 2019 |work=The National Review |date=30 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="French1" /> and the publication of numerous commentaries.<ref name="conservative" /><ref name="left-leaning" /> On September 5, 2019, French and Ahmari engaged in an in-person political debate moderated by ''New York Times'' columnist Ross Douthat at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.,<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 September 2019|title=Sohrab Ahmari debates David French 9.5.2019|url=https://americanmind.org/video/sohrab-ahmari-debates-david-french-10-5-2019/|website=The American Mind}}</ref> again prompting a flurry of commentaries.<ref>Further analysis: * {{Cite news|last=Conroy|first=J. Oliver|date=7 September 2019|title=What the 'Ahmari-French Debate' Was Really About|work=New York Magazine|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-the-ahmari-french-debate-was-really-about.html}} * {{Cite news|last=Walther|first=Matthew|date=6 September 2019|title=Why illiberal conservatives lose arguments|work=The Week|url=https://theweek.com/articles/863260/why-illiberal-conservatives-lose-arguments}} * {{Cite news|last=Nwanevu|first=Osita|date=9 September 2019|title=The Right Wing's Cultural Civil War Is a Drag|magazine=The New Republic|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154977/right-wings-cultural-civil-war-drag}} * {{Cite news|last=Ayers|first=Emma|date=9 September 2019|title=The Ahmari-French Debate Was About Theology, Not Politics|work=The American Conservative|url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-ahmari-french-debate-was-about-theology-not-politics/}} * {{Cite news|last=Egger|first=Andrew|date=6 September 2019|title=David French DESTROYS Sohrab Ahmari (and the idea of 'illiberal conservatism')|work=The Bulwark|url=https://thebulwark.com/david-french-destroys-sohrab-ahmari-and-the-idea-of-illiberal-conservatism/}} * {{Cite news|last=Reno|first=R.R.|date=19 September 2019|title=What's at Stake in the French-Ahmari Debate?|work=First Things|url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/09/whats-at-stake-in-the-french-ahmari-debate}} * {{Cite news|last=Suderman|first=Peter|date=6 September 2019|title=Sohrab Ahmari Is a Joke|work=Reason|url=https://reason.com/2019/09/06/sohrab-ahmari-is-a-joke/}} * {{Cite news|last=Pesavento|first=Christina|date=12 September 2019|title=The Limits of Liberty|work=R Street Institute|url=https://www.rstreet.org/2019/09/12/the-limits-of-liberty/}} * {{Cite news|last=Livni|first=Ephrat|date=17 June 2019|title=Conservative Christians in the US are battling about whether to fight nice|work=Quartz|url=https://qz.com/1645163/conservatives-led-by-david-french-and-sohrab-ahmari-are-in-a-big-fight/}}</ref>
The dispute centered on their differing opinions on how conservatives should approach cultural and political debate, with Ahmari deriding what he calls "David French-ism,” a political persuasion he defines as believing "that the institutions of a technocratic market society are neutral zones that should, in theory, accommodate both traditional Christianity and the libertine ways and paganized ideology of the other side".<ref name="Ahmari"/> He argues that this belief leads to an ineffective conservative movement, and contends that the best way for culturally conservative values to prevail in society is a strategy of "discrediting ... opponents and weakening or destroying their institutions", which he maintains is a tactic already utilized by progressives, leaving conservatives who adhere to the David French-style of politics impotent in what he views as a raging culture war in the United States.<ref name="Ahmari"/> He argues that the political realm should be viewed as one of "war and enmity,” and that the power of the government should be directly utilized to impose culturally conservative values on society.<ref name="Ahmari"/> French, by contrast, advocates a conservative libertarian approach in which decency, civility, and respect for individual rights are emphasized, and argues that Ahmari's beliefs "forsake" the philosophy of classical liberalism that the Founding Fathers of the United States espoused.<ref name="French1">{{cite news |last1=French |first1=David |title=In Defense of 'Frenchism' |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/06/24/in-defense-of-frenchism/ |accessdate=9 August 2019 |publisher=The National Review |date=6 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="French3"/> He placed particular criticism on Ahmari's desire for direct government intervention in the lives of individuals, which he argues is not only antithetical to liberty but is a politically ruinous tactic for conservatives, who would end up on the receiving end of progressive policies if the government were given greater license to interfere in the private lives of individuals.<ref name="French3"/>
=== Dispute with right-wing online movements === Ahmari has been very critical of movements that he considers to be part of the "woke right",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=2024-02-14 |title=The Weird Racial Right Plays Dress-Up |url=https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-weird-racial-right-plays-dress |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Compact’s Substack}}</ref> with special attention being paid to the online persona Bronze Age Pervert,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Not Your Daddy's Classical Liberalism |url=https://americanmind.org/features/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-pajama-boy-nietzscheans/not-your-daddys-classical-liberalism/ |access-date=June 29, 2025|website=The American Mind|first=Francis J.|last=Beckwith|date=May 27, 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> as well as right-wing historical revisionists platformed by Tucker Carlson.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |title=Pseudo-Scholars and the Rise of the Barbarian Right |url=https://www.thefp.com/p/pseudo-scholars-and-the-rise-of-the |access-date=June 29, 2025 |website=The Free Press|date=September 4, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
==Funding controversy== Vanity Fair reported that Ahmari's publication, Compact Magazine, had openly attended events hosted by and received extensive funding from the Soros family's Open Society Foundations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fedorov |first=Andrew |date=2024-10-23 |title=Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas? |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/progressive-mega-donor-funding-right-wing-ideas? |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref> Previously, Salon had reported that Peter Thiel was behind the publication,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Joyce |first=Kathryn |date=2022-11-21 |title=The postliberal crackup: The GOP’s post-midterm civil war starts with the New Right |url=https://www.salon.com/2022/11/21/the-postliberal-crackup-the-gops-post-midterms-civil-starts-with-the-new-right/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> but this later report contradicted the claim.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fedorov |first=Andrew |date=2024-10-23 |title=Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas? |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/progressive-mega-donor-funding-right-wing-ideas? |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Books== While in law school, Ahmari co-edited with Nasser Weddady the 2012 book ''Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran'', an anthology of the top essays submitted by young Middle Eastern dissidents to the Dream Deferred Essay Contest. ''The Times Literary Supplement'' writes that Weddady and Ahmari "perceptively edited this collection of winning entries" from the Dream Deferred contest and that "some of these young writers [featured in the anthology] possess more clarity than all the pundits combined."<ref>{{cite news |date=22 August 2012 |title=Taking in the Arab Spring |url=http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1108763.ece |newspaper=The Times Literary Supplement }}</ref> The book received endorsements from Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who wrote the anthology's foreword.<ref name="ne"/>
Ahmari's book, ''The New Philistines'', about his belief that identity politics are corrupting the arts, was released on October 20, 2016, from Biteback Publishing.<ref>{{cite news |title=The New Philistines |url=https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-new-philistines |agency=Biteback Publishing }}</ref> In January 2019, Ignatius Press published his spiritual memoir, ''From Fire, by Water'', about his conversion to Catholicism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ignatius.com/From-Fire-by-Water-P3122.aspx |title=From Fire, by Water |access-date=27 January 2019 |publisher=Ignatius Press}}</ref>
''The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos'' was released in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fawcett |first=Edmund |date=2021-05-20 |title=A Complaint Against Liberal Modernity, and a Solution: Faith |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/books/review/the-unbroken-thread-sohrab-ahmari.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vance |first=Kevin |date=2021-06-02 |title=Away from Liberalism: A Review of Sohrab Ahmari's The Unbroken Thread |url=https://providencemag.com/2021/06/away-liberalism-book-review-sohrab-ahmari-the-unbroken-thread/ |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Providence |language=en-US}}</ref>
His most recent book, ''Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It'', was released in 2023.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gurman |first=Hannah |date=2024 |title=Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It by Sohrab Ahmari (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/918670/pdf |journal=Dissent |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=124–131 |issn=1946-0910}}</ref>
==Personal life== Sohrab Ahmari had been an atheist since the age of 12.<ref name="catholicheraldmyjourneyfromtehrantorome" /> Ahmari was raised to believe that religion was backwards, and his parents would secretly consume alcohol while in Iran.<ref name="catholicheraldmyjourneyfromtehrantorome" /> Ahmari converted from atheism to Catholicism in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |date=1 August 2016 |title=Atheist Journalist Sohrab Ahmari Announces Conversion to Catholicism After Jihadis Kill French Priest |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-journalist-sohrab-ahmari-announces-conversion-catholicism-jihadis-kill-french-priest-167333/ |newspaper=The Christian Post }}</ref> In late September 2016, he wrote a three-page article about his conversion in ''The Catholic Herald'', which was the cover story of the September 30, 2016 issue.<ref name="catholicheraldmyjourneyfromtehrantorome">{{cite news|last1=Ahmari|first1=Sohrab |url= https://catholicherald.co.uk/my-journey-from-tehran-to-rome/ |title=My Journey from Tehran to Rome|work=The Catholic Herald|date=September 30, 2016|pages=20–22}}</ref>
Ahmari is married to architect Ting Li, with whom he has a son and a daughter.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |title=The New Philistines |publisher=Biteback Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=9781785901591 |location=United Kingdom |language=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ahmari |first=Sohrab |date=August 8, 2023 |title=It and the Other Things |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/it-and-the-other-things/ |access-date=August 19, 2023 |website=The American Conservative}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * (2023) ''Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty--and What to Do About It''. Forum Books. * (2021) ''The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos''. Convergent Books. * (2019) ''From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith''. Ignatius Press. {{ISBN|9781621642022}}. * (2016) ''The New Philistines''. Biteback Publishing. {{ISBN|9781785901270}}. * (2012) ''Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran'' (co-edited with Nasser Weddady). Palgrave Macmillan. {{ISBN|9780230115927}}.
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==External links== * {{Twitter}} * [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/05/against-david-french-ism Against David French-ism], by Sohrab Ahmari at ''First Things'' * {{C-SPAN|107986}}
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