396 | Sohrab Ahmari: Post-Liberalism and the Threat of Private Tyranny
The Realignment
The Realignment
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Marshall here. Welcome back to The Realignment. |
| 0:08.2 | My guest today, Sarb Amari, is making his return appearance on The Realignment. |
| 0:12.2 | He's just released a new book, Tyranny Inc. |
| 0:15.1 | Out Private Power, Crushed American Liberty, and what to do about it. |
| 0:19.2 | Before we dive in, a quick reminder at this show is supported by supercast subscribers. |
| 0:23.8 | A feature for subscribers is soccer and my exclusive episodes where we take audience questions |
| 0:29.8 | and comments about our work on The Realignment and Breaking Points. |
| 0:33.2 | We posted a teaser this past Friday if you'd like a preview. |
| 0:36.8 | To subscribe, go to reallignment.supercast.com. |
| 0:41.1 | On to today's episode. I really enjoyed my conversation with Sarb. |
| 0:45.2 | He's exactly the sort of figure he finds himself in awkward position |
| 0:48.8 | during a reallignment of the political parties, slash transitional moment in American politics. |
| 0:55.2 | On the one hand, he's the founder and editor of Compact, |
| 0:58.7 | a magazine that's best described as post-liberal. |
| 1:01.7 | He's a strident critic of the mainstime for and policy approach, especially in Ukraine. |
| 1:07.9 | He's very self-conservative, but he also in this episode describes himself as a new dealer. |
| 1:14.4 | Refreshingly, Tyranny Inc. isn't just a cliched conversation, |
| 1:18.5 | but wokeness and increasingly stale topic, if I may say so myself. |
| 1:24.0 | In the episode, though, we discuss everything from how the right, with its focus on limiting government, |
| 1:29.4 | misses the role that private actors play in limiting freedom to the pitfalls of lifestyle liberalism, |
| 1:36.3 | and the need for counter railing forces, like unions, to ensure that we have a balanced society, |
| 1:41.5 | but it comes to the interests of labor and capital. |
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