The flawed idealism that united the right
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Fusionism is dead. Well and truly dead
Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari is comment editor of the New York Post. His book The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos will be released in June.
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Anti-anti-crime policies are ruining American cities
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Let’s get the myths out of the way: COVID wasn’t the main driver behind the recent crime surge
Tuesday
Is New York coming back?
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P.J. Clarke’s is open again, the masks are off, the brews are cold, the regulars are back
Can COVID-19 tell whether a protest is progressive?
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Clearly the virus targets especially working-class and middle-class workplaces and industries…
Tuesday
Has liberalism gone too far?
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In this week’s episode of The Green Room, Deputy Editor of The Spectator’s world edition Dominic Green meets the author Sohrab Ahmari for a chat about his new book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering The Wisdom Of Tradition In An Age Of Chaos. In it, Ahmari, a writer and New York Post op-ed editor, makes a compelling
Thursday
The unenlightenment: liberalism comes at a cost
Are citizens of liberal societies permitted to question liberalism? In theory, the answer is yes, given liberalism’s commitment to ‘free thought’ and ‘the marketplace of ideas’. Such tolerance is rarely in evidence in practice, however — a reality illustrated in hilarious fashion by a writer for a Washington magazine who recently decried ‘cancel culture’ even
Monday
The right after Trump
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The time of the woke conservative must come
Thursday
This ‘revolution’ isn’t what it looks like
America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the sort of people who had acquired position and influence as a result of globalisation were turfed out of power for the first time in decades. They watched in horror as voters across the world chose
Thursday
I thought I’d left looting mobs behind in the Middle East
Last week shattered all my sense of stability and permanence in New York, the city I’ve called home since 2012 (though I’ve spent some of those years in London). The looting mobs that rampaged through Gotham’s streets — including my block — put me in mind of my native Middle East; it’s a phenomenon I
Thursday
The new boat people
When the migrant crisis started, about three years ago, it was seen as a mainly Syrian affair. Caught in the crossfire between Bashar al-Assad and sundry jihadist groups, ordinary Syrians were heading for Europe, part of the largest mass movement of people since the second world war. But as we now know, that analysis was
