Sohrab Ahmari
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US Editor, UnHerd. Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
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The story of the "disappearing" US scientists is the online Right's latest hysteria outbreak.
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Behind the ‘disappearing scientists’ hysteria
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The real Lori Chavez-DeRemer scandal is her empty record. She was supposed to represent the new, pro-labor wing of the GOP. But she did zilch as Trump II lurched closer to pro-employer libertarianism than George W. Bush. My take.
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The true Lori Chavez-DeRemer scandal: her empty record
Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is leaving the administration under a cloud of misconduct allegations. These include drinking on the job, having an affair with one of her bodyguar...
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After working its way through the conservative press and the online Right, the "disappearing-scientists" narrative got a major boost last week, when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Team Trump was looking into the matter. It's nonsense.
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Behind the ‘disappearing scientists’ hysteria
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The story of the "disappearing" US scientists is the online Right's latest hysteria outbreak.
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Behind the ‘disappearing scientists’ hysteria
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Why the US economy beats Europe's: Big Business is good, actually By MICHAEL LIND
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Why the US economy beats Europe
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"Many of the Catholic Republicans in my social networks appear more anxious about their relationship with the GOP and the White House in the wake of the Leo spat than they are about the honor of the Roman pontiff."
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The Pope versus the President
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Pope Leo has cast off / rendered impossible the brand of “conservative” Catholicism that since the 1970s has sought to make the faith safe for GOP belligerence and market fundamentalism. My 3,000-word essay, if you’re into such things. The end of conservative Catholicism
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The Pope versus the President
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"Many of the Catholic Republicans in my social networks appear more anxious about their relationship with the GOP and the White House in the wake of the Leo spat than they are about the honor of the Roman pontiff."
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The Pope versus the President
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Pope Leo has cast off / rendered impossible the brand of “conservative” Catholicism that since the 1970s has sought to make the faith safe for GOP belligerence and market fundamentalism. My 3,000-word essay, if you’re into such things. The end of conservative Catholicism
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The Pope versus the President
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Trump's post on the pope is simply demented (and evil). In its claims, and in the tone it strikes toward the Vicar of Christ, the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion.
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I've never taken part in a more urgent panel: Today, I'm speaking at this Georgetown gathering on Catholic teaching and the war on Iran. Thousands have registered. It's free and open to the public, and there's still a little time to sign up ==>
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“I was really hoping that his campaign would go to hell anyway. I was hoping it would go to the shitbin.” An Eric Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. Astonishing quotes in this insider account of his unraveling.
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Inside the #MeToo unravelling of Eric Swalwell
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“I was really hoping that his campaign would go to hell anyway. I was hoping it would go to the shitbin.” An Eric Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. Astonishing quotes in this insider account of his unraveling.
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Inside the #MeToo unravelling of Eric Swalwell
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“He’s fake anyway, and a very, very weird person. Meeting him, you knew something was off, especially after hearing of his allegations.” A Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. An extraordinary insider account of his unraveling.
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Inside the #MeToo unraveling of Eric Swalwell
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“He’s fake anyway, and a very, very weird person. Meeting him, you knew something was off, especially after hearing of his allegations.” A Swalwell staffer tells UnHerd. An extraordinary insider account of his unraveling.
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Inside the #MeToo unraveling of Eric Swalwell
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Against the Mad King
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Against the Mad King. Trump's governance style doesn't work. It's so bad one yearns to cry out: Bring back Hillary, bring back the Obama wonks, give us a thousand think-tank white papers. My big UnHerd essay on the end of the war.
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Against the Mad King
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Against the Mad King. Trump's governance style doesn't work. It's so bad one yearns to cry out: Bring back Hillary, bring back the Obama wonks, give us a thousand think-tank white papers. My big UnHerd essay on the end of the war.
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Against the Mad King
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RSVP to attend on Monday, April 13 at 12:30 pm EDT online via livestream:
bit.ly/IranWarCST
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“War is Back in Vogue”
The United States’ bombardment of Iran is the latest demonstration of what Pope Leo has called a “zeal for war” spreading throughout the world. Can the Trump administration’s rhetoric, tactics, and go...
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@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
is the U.S. editor of UnHerd and a former columnist for The New Statesman and the Wall Street Journal, and writes regularly about Iran.
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Why "Bari Weiss U" (and other projects like it) fail. Contrarianism, without more, isn't a serious academic project
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Why the ‘heterodox’ university failed
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Can we have the good without Good Friday?
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Can we have the good without Good Friday?
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Can we have the good without Good Friday?
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Can we have the good without Good Friday?
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"War is back in vogue": On April 13, I'm taking part in this Georgetown online panel on how the Iran War's challenge to Catholic teaching---and the Catholic moral imagination. Free and open to all:
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Beneath an exterior of clean, conservative values, sometimes there lies a man with a fetish for giving himself enormous fake breasts. My take on Bryon Noem.
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Bryon Noem scandal punctures myth of rural American innocence
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail revealed that Bryon Noem, husband of former US homeland security chief Kristi Noem, has a “bimboification” fetish. That is, when adult men attempt to transform themselves in...
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"It’s high time for Americans to ditch their rural-idyll mythos: lower population density is no guarantor of virtue, nor city life of perversion." Me on l'affaire Bryon Noem.
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Bryon Noem scandal punctures myth of rural American innocence
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail revealed that Bryon Noem, husband of former US homeland security chief Kristi Noem, has a “bimboification” fetish. That is, when adult men attempt to transform themselves in...
https://unherd.com/newsroom/bryon-noem-scandal-punctures-myth-of-rural-american-innocence/?edition=us
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“War is Back in Vogue”: Iran and Catholic Teachings on a Moral Foreign Policy 🗓️ Monday, April 13, 2026 🕧 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EDT 📍 Online Via Livestream 🗣️
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
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@philklay.bsky.social
, Mary Ellen O’Connell, Elisabetta Piqué 🔗
bit.ly/IranWarCST
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Trump's hubris may just have saved the American Left. Ryan Zickgraf visits No Kings protests for UnHerd, and glimpses hopeful signs of meaningful resistance.
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How Trump saved the Left
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"Trump’s wartime command closely resembles the Boomer uncle who can’t help himself from scrolling through social-media reels at the Easter dinner table."
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The Boomer-uncle war
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"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility rather than the Oval Office, and those who continue to enable such embarrassment deserve to answer for the damage they’ve done."
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The Boomer-uncle war
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"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility, rather than the Oval Office."
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The Boomer-uncle war
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"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility, rather than the Oval Office."
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The Boomer-uncle war
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"Anyone who can be manipulated by Lindsey Graham belongs in a care facility rather than the Oval Office, and those who continue to enable such embarrassment deserve to answer for the damage they’ve done."
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The Boomer-uncle war
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"Trump’s wartime command closely resembles the Boomer uncle who can’t help himself from scrolling through social-media reels at the Easter dinner table."
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The Boomer-uncle war
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Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession: Iran blinded him to closer threats. Honored to publish Haaretz senior correspondent Amir Tibon in UnHerd!
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Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession
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Trump's Mideast follies are accelerating China's march to victory in Cold War II. A landmark essay by Michael Lind.
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America is losing Cold War II
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Trump on Fox just now: “I’m more popular than I’ve ever been” The circa-2024 Biden was less senile than this.
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Trump's Mideast follies are accelerating China's march to victory in Cold War II. A landmark essay by Michael Lind.
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America is losing Cold War II
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Trump’s abandonment of MAGA’s peace promise gives Dems a huge opportunity to win by being unequivocally antiwar. MUST-READ Ross Barkan for UnHerd.
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How Democrats win on foreign policy
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VP JD Vance is the key to ending the Iran war. That is, if President Trump gives him sufficient scope to negotiate. My column.
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JD Vance is the key to Iran peace talks
Can JD Vance negotiate an off-ramp from Donald Trump’s Iran war? That’s the question raised by an intriguing Guardian report suggesting that the regime in Tehran won’t sit down with Trump’s personal e...
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Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession: Iran blinded him to closer threats. Honored to publish Haaretz senior correspondent Amir Tibon in UnHerd!
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Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession
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“I said: it’s drek. It’s drivel.” Cormac McCarthy on David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." Vincenzo Barney has the scoop, exclusively for UnHerd.
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Why Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels
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“I said: it’s drek. It’s drivel.” Cormac McCarthy on David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." Vincenzo Barney has the scoop, exclusively for UnHerd.
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Why Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels
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Trump was never the one. His flaws finally became catastrophic. An essay-cum-Major Admission from me.
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Trump was never the one
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"Among those of us who made our peace with Trump, it was too easy to praise his 'animal instincts' — a phrase I often used in this context — by way of overlooking his lack of personal virtue." My latest.
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Trump was never the one
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Trump was never the one. His flaws finally became catastrophic. An essay-cum-Major Admission from me.
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Trump was never the one
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The second oil crisis is here, and it's much worse than 1973. Back then, it was just a matter of the Arabs turning the taps back on. But even if Trump's Iran War stopped tomorrow, it would take months to restore the flow.
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The second oil crisis is here
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"As in 1973, the people who absorb the worst of the oil shock will be the poor in Cairo buying cooking oil. They will be working-class Trump voters on low incomes who need to fill up their tanks to get to work." ✍️ Amir Handjani
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The second oil crisis is here
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"As in 1973, the people who absorb the worst of the oil shock will be the poor in Cairo buying cooking oil. They will be working-class Trump voters on low incomes who need to fill up their tanks to get to work." ✍️ Amir Handjani
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The second oil crisis is here
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The second oil crisis is here, and it's much worse than 1973. Back then, it was just a matter of the Arabs turning the taps back on. But even if Trump's Iran War stopped tomorrow, it would take months to restore the flow.
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The second oil crisis is here
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Anti-interventionists and economic populists on the Right who dreamed that Trump would favor their causes may not want to hear the truth. But the truth is that Trumpism is just a vulgar version of Bushism. ✍️ Michael Lind
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The Bush GOP never went away
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