243: Sohrab Ahmari: The tyranny of the free market

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Sohrab Ahmari – founder and editor of Compact – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his new book, Tyranny, Inc. They touch on how the left gave up on the working classes, what the right gets wrong about woke capitalism, and how the market threatens the freedoms of ordinary Americans.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Brendan here. Before we kick off with this week's podcast, which is a great
0:04.3	conversation with Sorab Amari, I want to let you know about a very special event we have
0:09.6	coming up soon. On Tuesday, the 29th of August, I will be recording a special live podcast
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1:39.4	Wokeism or I sometimes use the phrase lifestyle leftism. The leftism that's not concerned with
1:44.7	the traditional commitments of the left, but rather it's all about leasing working class people.
1:49.2	Their use of language, their consumption choices, and the rules constantly change so that if you
1:54.1	haven't gotten the memo, you might say the wrong thing that was just acceptable two months ago.
1:58.4	All of these are actually disciplinary mechanisms for the human resources department.
2:02.4	When you have a market tyranny, it often goes hand in hand with state tyranny because working
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