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Tradition Amid Chaos: An Evening With Sohrab Ahmari

Fri, Nov 19

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University Catholic Center

"As a young father and a self-proclaimed 'radically assimilated immigrant,' Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son's moral fiber, today's America comes up short."

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Tradition Amid Chaos: An Evening With Sohrab Ahmari
Tradition Amid Chaos: An Evening With Sohrab Ahmari

Time & Location

Nov 19, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

University Catholic Center, 2010 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705, USA

About The Event

"As a young father and a self-proclaimed 'radically assimilated immigrant,' Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son's moral fiber, today's America comes up short." During this talk, journalist and author Sohrab Ahmari will share some of his ideas about the direness of the crisis we currently face and about the ways forward (which might actually require some looking back).

About Our Speaker

Sohrab Ahmari is a contributing editor of The American Conservative and a visiting fellow of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London.

His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent…

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