Sohrab Ahmari

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Sohrab Ahmari (Persian: سهراب احمری, romanized: Sohrāb Aḥmarī; born February 1, 1985) is an Iranian-born American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction books. He is the US editor of UnHerd and a founding editor of the online magazine Compact. He is a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald, and a columnist for First Things. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the New York Post, an editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary. Ahmari advocates an isolationist foreign policy and was an advisor to the United States Vice President JD Vance during President Trump's second term. In June 2026, Ahmari flew with JD Vance on Air Force Two to Switzerland for negotiations with Iran, despite having no security clearance. Ahmari is the author of The New Philistines (2016), a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts; From Fire, by Water (2019), a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Catholicism; The...

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