56: Finding freedom in an age of chaos, with Sohrab Ahmari

The Brendan O'Neill Show

News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sohrab Ahmari returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, ‘The Unbroken Thread’. Sohrab and Brendan discuss the paradoxes of modern liberalism: how the free market undermines free speech, how data distorts the search for truth, and why humans need boundaries to truly flourish

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1:15.4	With a vaccine we've come close to conquering the novel coronavirus
1:19.6	But at the height of decision making about these things
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