Sohrab Ahmari
Columnist, editor and nonfiction author
Born in Tehran and based in New York, Sohrab Ahmari, 37, is co-founder of the online political magazine Compact, a former editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, and former op-ed editor of the New York Post. He is an outspoken critic and has argued that politics and public discourse should be a forum of “war and enmity”, with culturally conservative values being imposed on society. Ahmari is a contributing editor of the Catholic Herald which published the first account of his journey from atheism to Roman Catholicism in 2016. He is the author of The New Philistines: How Identity Politics Disfigure the Arts, a spiritual memoir, From Fire, by Water and The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.
