Tyranny, Inc. (Robert Wright & Sohrab Ahmari)

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:33 Sohrab’s idiosyncratic ideological journey 10:04 What makes Sohrab a conservative? 15:58 Sohrab’s new book Tyranny, Inc.—a critique of neoliberal capitalism’s effects on American life 24:09 What happened to the labor movement in America? 36:12 Private equity’s role in Sears’s demise 45:19 “Ghost papers”: Wall Street's effect on local news 51:22 Overtime preview: Sohrab’s foreign policy; supporting Donald Trump; re-industrializing without Cold War II; and what is to be done?

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Sohrab Ahmari (Compact Magazine, Tyranny, Inc.). Recorded August 15, 2023.

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0:00.0	Your List of You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:33.0	Hi, so, Rob.
0:34.8	Hi, Bob. Thanks for having me.
0:37.1	Oh, I'm very happy to have you. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter. This is a Non-Zero podcast. You are So-Rob Amari. And among other things, you are author of the book, Tyranny, Inc. How Private Power Crushed American Liberty, and what to do about it. A brand new book.
0:55.5	I mean brand new, like being published today, right? Correct. It's pub date.
1:00.5	Yeah. How do you feeling about that? Pretty good. Just kind of want to get to, to be honest.
1:06.2	It's like barrage of public city. Just get to the best seller list as soon as possible. Is that
1:10.0	no, I was going to say get to bed?
1:12.3	Oh, get to bed. Okay. Just been doing one after another of these. Well, you can't have both. If you're going to rest, then you'll never get to the best. Is that exactly right? It takes tireless work. Got to hustle. So anyway, before we talk about the book, Perci, I wanted to talk a little about your ideological journey.
1:09.6	Because for one thing, the book, I wanted to talk a little about your ideological journey.
1:29.1	Because for one thing,
1:30.0	the book is in some ways an ideological manifesto.
1:34.7	And besides,
1:36.4	you are pretty well known as the co-founder,
1:40.0	I guess,
1:40.5	and an editor of this pretty new magazine compact,
1:46.2	which is very much an ideological magazine.
1:58.5	And, you know, I think typically describes the conservative, although one could get pretty far into your book thinking that you are a raging leftist. And I want to talk about all that.
2:00.3	But first, let's let's get to the
2:02.4	beginning of your ideological journey. You used to be at the opinion page of the Wall Street
2:08.3	Journal. You wrote for commentary. You were the op-ed editor in New York Post. All of those things
2:14.8	suggest that you may have had neoconservative leanings at one time
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