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Sohrab Ahmari

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Sohrab Ahmari is the US editor of UnHerd and the author of The New Philistines, a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts, From Fire, by Water, a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, and The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.

Most recently Ahmari has published Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It, and Saving Genitality: Toward a Freudian Virtue Ethics.


  • The Genital Stage

    10 March 2026

    Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were ‘heteronormative’ orthodox Freudian ideas like ‘genitality’ useful after all?


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