The talk took place at a packed, sweltering event space on the Lower East Side, before an audience heavy on Twitter (now X) personalities and writers for small magazines.
Introducing the discussion, Sunkara said that when Ahmari invited him to participate, he was skeptical.
But then he read Ahmari’s book, “Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty — and What to Do About It,” and found, as he explained, “surprisingly very little to criticize.”The book surprised me as well.
As Sunkara pointed out, the word “woke” appears only a handful of times, in most cases in reference to the blind spots of the anti-woke right.
Reading “Tyranny, Inc.,” I kept wondering how Ahmari had gone from conservative cultural crusader to genuine economic populist and, more important, whether any other social traditionalists could make the same leap.
Persons:
Sohrab Ahmari, Bhaskar Sunkara, Sunkara, Ahmari, Power, Liberty —, “, David French, ” I’d, it’s, ”
Organizations:
New, Jacobin, Twitter, Inc, Liberty
Locations:
New York City