
The Unbroken Thread
Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos
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Sohrab Ahmari
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Sohrab Ahmari
We’ve pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselves - but at what cost? An influential columnist and editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaning.
“Ahmari’s tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now.” (Rod Dreher, best-selling author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict Option)
As a young father and a self-proclaimed “radically assimilated immigrant,” opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son’s moral fiber, today’s America is woefully lacking. For millennia, the world’s great ethical and religious traditions have taught that true happiness lies in pursuing virtue and accepting limits. But now, unbound from these stubborn traditions, we are free to choose whichever way of life we think is most optimal - or, more often than not, merely the easiest. All that remains are the fickle desires that a wealthy, technologically advanced society is equipped to fulfill.
The result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that, for all their apparent freedom, are marked by alienation and stark unhappiness.
In response to this crisis, Ahmari offers twelve questions for us to grapple with - 12 timeless, fundamental queries that challenge our modern certainties. Among them: Is God reasonable? What is freedom for? What do we owe our parents, our bodies, one another? Exploring each question through the lives and ideas of great thinkers, from Saint Augustine to Howard Thurman and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Andrea Dworkin, Ahmari invites us to examine the hidden assumptions that drive our behavior and, in doing so, to live more humanely in a world that has lost its way.
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Critic reviews
"A formidable combination of storytelling and philosophy that might change your life.” (The Times)
“[Ahmari] is a master storyteller.... Readers of Sohrab Ahmari’s new book will be grateful to him for reminding us of how serious the loss [of our traditions] could turn out to be.” (First Things)
“Ahmari’s elegantly written book matters because it seeks to give moral voice to what so far has mainly been a populist scream against the values of elite liberalism.” (Bret Stephens, The New York Times)
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However, I found the solutions insufficiently supported, and without the weight of the criticism. I read this to challenging myself, and it was challenging; to the point where I felt a visceral disgust at some of the jumps in logic he made when proscribing solutions.
Valuable critique, but poorly argued proposals
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reread again and again
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Spectacular
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A Tour de force
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This book is an absolute must read.
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Outstanding
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l learned a lot
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Brilliant
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more importantly, I was hoping for a more assertive takedown of contemporary culture, particularly regarding compulsory speech and association
quite a bit of wisdom here
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