Sohrab Ahmari and Brendan O’Neill discuss why modern liberalism has made us so unfree.
Sohrab Ahmari, op-ed editor at the New York Post, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Tradition of Wisdom in an Age of Chaos. They discuss the paradoxes of modern liberalism: how the free market undermines free speech, how data distorts the search for truth, and why humans need boundaries to truly flourish.
Read the transcript here.
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