The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos
- Keen insights into freedom, ethics and morality in America
- Written by an Iranian American immigrant and editor
- Challenges the secular meaning of happiness
- Explores the culture's impact on the deepest questions of the soul
- For parents, and all who seek to live the faith joyfully in a fallen world
As a young father and a self-proclaimed “radically assimilated immigrant,” opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son’s moral fiber, today’s America comes up short. For millennia, the world’s great ethical and religious traditions taught that true happiness lies in pursuing virtue and accepting limits. But now, unbound from these stubborn traditions, we are free to choose whichever way of life we think is most optimal—or, more often than not, merely the easiest. All that remains are the fickle desires that a wealthy, technologically advanced society is equipped to fulfill.
The result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that, for all their apparent freedom, are marked by alienation and stark unhappiness.
In response to this crisis, Ahmari offers twelve questions for us to grapple with—twelve timeless, fundamental queries that challenge our modern certainties. Among them: Is God reasonable? What is freedom for? What do we owe our parents, our bodies, one another? Exploring each question through the life and ideas of great thinkers, from Saint Augustine to Howard Thurman and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Andrea Dworkin, Ahmari invites us to examine the hidden assumptions that drive our behavior and, in so doing, to live more humanely in a world that has lost its way.
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- 2021-09-17
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- "The Unbroken Thread" by Sohrab Ahmari probes the essence of freedom, ethics, and happiness in America by questioning modern secular norms and advocating for value-laden traditions. Through twelve timeless questions explored via historical thinkers,
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- Ahmari urges readers, especially parents, to rediscover faith and virtue in navigating a morally challenging world. A thought-provoking guide to living meaningfully amidst chaos.
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos
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