PDF-[BOOK]-The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos

Weve pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselvesbut at what cost The New York Post oped editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaningAs a young father and a selfproclaimed radically assimilated immigrant opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young sons moral fiber todays America comes up short For millennia the worlds 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 fulfillThe result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that for all their apparent freedom are marked by alienation and stark unhappinessIn 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 wayEditorial ReviewsThe Unbroken Thread merits attention because Ahmari is a notable combatant in the fight on the American right for the future of conservatismThe New York Times Book ReviewAhmaris elegantly written book matters because it seeks to give moral voice to what so far has mainly been a populist scream against the values of elite liberalismBret Stephens The New York TimesA scholarly rebuke to the fashionable currents of our rootless age Salted with an intellectual breadth and curiosity expressed with exceptional clarityThe Times LondonA formidable combination of storytelling and philosophy that might change your lifeThe Times London Audiobook of the WeekA vital and provocative read Designed to satisfy the curiosity of those wondering whether there is more to life than rootless independence The Unbroken Thread is an easy read while still meaty enough to reward those already sympathetic to traditions insights Studded with little gems of historical and philosophical intrigueThe Telegraph LondonAhmari is a master storyteller Readers of Sohrab Ahmaris new book will be grateful to him for reminding us of how serious the loss of our traditions could turn out to beFirst ThingsEven those who reject Ahmaris categories and conclusions will still admire and be edified by the stories he has to tellNational ReviewA triumph of intellectual hagiography that leads the reader confidently into deep watersCommentaryAhmari proposes a path out of the chaos in our culture today discerning the reasons of the heart and promoting moral excellence He frames the questions we all need to ponder and identifies many topics that families and religious leaders need to address the sooner the betterThe New CriterionSohrab Ahmaris latest book presents compelling critiques of the modern understanding of human freedomThe American ConservativeAn extended carefully worded invitation to share in the treasures of Western civilizationClaremont Review of BooksAhmaris prose is always clear and he manages to articulate sophisticated arguments without ever sounding academic or getting lost in minutiaWashington ExaminerThe Unbroken Thread will be of great service to Americans who have been deprived of their moral and philosophical inheritance by a shallow educational establishment Ahmari introduces a generation and more to the spiritual patrimony of which they have been robbed And he does it in the gentlest way possible knowing its riches may dazzle eyes that have too long alighted on only the rusted scrap of utilitarian liberalismSpectator USAThe urgent need for this work cannot be doubted For as Ahmari concludes his reflections the social trends that fill parents like him with unease also come into sharper focusNational Catholic RegisterThe quality that makes Ahmari a valuable thinker for our current moment is the same one that made him write this book in the way that he did his willingness to take risksCity JournalHonestly if there were another hundred Sohrab Ahmaris or even just a dozen the Church in the US would be transformed A humane and combative bookThe Catholic HeraldFiercely intelligent Bristling with ideas and insights this is a book to engage theologians and general readers alikeChurch Times LondonIntriguing and insightful The Unbroken Thread is clearly the result of wide reading and reflection While Ahmaris arguments are easy to read copying and sending them to your older children is even easierCatholic World ReportAlthough Ahmari is gentle with the reader his aim is daring He seeks nothing less than to build a city of heroes His verve and punchy style will make any educated reader rethink or think more about our societys shaky foundations Better yet it might even make a saint or twoThe University BookmanThe Unbroken Thread is a most welcome invitation to take both wisdom and tradition seriously again to see in tradition an indispensable vehicle for conveying and sustaining wisdom about the things that truly matter In that regard Ahmaris very fine book is profoundly counterculturalThe Public DiscourseThe book recalls CS Lewiss Mere Christianity a guide for the skeptical everyman to the traditionalists positionThe Washington Free BeaconThe Unbroken Thread is simply tradition issuing a series of reminders to Western liberalism And yet wed be remiss if we didnt attend closely to the conceptual contours traced by Ahmaris highly readable bookHuman EventsThe Unbroken Thread is an achievement in scholarship journalism and entertainment If youre feeling exhausted or just looking for refreshment and renewed energy read The Unbroken ThreadThe Catholic ThingWellwritten thoughtful and true argumentsUnHerdThe Unbroken Thread is persuasive because it is a fathers workingout of a vision worth imparting to his child Ahmaris love for his son is a gateway to the books universal concernsArc DigitalWith The Unbroken Thread New York Post oped editor Sohrab Ahmari has given us a beautifully written book that makes classical and Christian thought intelligible relevant and attractive to contemporary readersProvidence MagazineAhmari is speaking to all of us as the children we are appealing to our reason as well as to our eternal selves He petitions that part of us that like children reaches out to the sky the universe the heavens and pleads for some glimpse of true meaning We beggars at the altar of mercy have tried everything we could think of have indulged in every kind of fulfillment prioritized every pursuit and still none of them can equate to the glory of Gods loveThe Post MillennialAhmaris eminently readable book is a rediscovery of timetested wisdomThe Daily SignalThe Unbroken Thread is not a polemic it is an intellectual journey told as a series of cozy fireside chats It satisfies what the late critic Harold Bloom considered the readers strongest most authentic motive the search for a difficult pleasure The Imaginative ConservativeWhile Ahmaris new book is certainly wellwritten it does not leave readers feeling comfortable Instead it challenges readers conservative and progressive alike to examine not just their opinions but their habits and those of their civilization It is both poignant and edifyingThe European ConservativeAhmari deftly blends history biography and philosophy to propose answers to the questions he sets himself SemiduplexAdvance PraiseSohrab Ahmari offers more than a vivid and learned defense of traditionalism With fatherly love he leads his sonand uson a fearless consideration of lifes big questions taking thinkers of many historical times and circumstances as interlocutors Along the way he recovers truths about the nature and flourishing of the human persontruths seemingly in danger of being forgotten in our contentious and uncertain timesTimothy Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New YorkAhmaris tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now Only a writer with Ahmaris intellect his audacious commitment to faith and reason and a journalists gift for storytelling could have pulled this off Rod Dreher bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict OptionA seriousand seriously readablebook about the deep questions that our shallow age has foolishly tried to dodgeDouglas Murray bestselling author of The Madness of Crowds and The Strange Death of EuropeAs having a child instantly teaches us its no longer about you Ahmari uses his personal experience but then broadens out to draw on wisdoms of all ages and faiths He jars us out of our selfieobsessed world with the clear message that commitment to faith to others and to humanity is actually the most liberating existence of allMartha MacCallum anchor The Story on Fox News and author Unknown Valor A Story of Family Courage and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo JimaIn this fascinating book Sohrab Ahmari eloquently articulates what many American Founders understood and the French revolutionaries forgot that faith is essential for freedom to truly flourish and that we abandon the wisdom of the past at great peril to our future Traditional Jews Christians and all who care about the future of the West are in his debt Rabbi Meir Soloveichik director Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought Yeshiva UniversityIn a time of widespread confusion and uncertainty about the meaning of life Sohrab Ahmari makes a strong case for the truth and relevance of traditional values virtues and beliefs This is a unique and hopeful book that reminds us that the human person is made for great and beautiful things far more than the vision of life offered by our society todayMost Reverend José H Gomez Archbishop of Los AngelesDrawing on the deepest wells of ancient and modern wisdom from around the world The Unbroken Thread weaves together essential lessons desperately needed to guide a new generation into an uncertain future Written with love as a legacy for his young son Sohrab Ahmari has produced a gift for all of us Patrick J Deneen professor of political science University of Notre Dame and author of Why Liberalism FailedSohrab Ahmari has been thinking for himself since arriving from Iran as a youth Paradoxically he has thought himself back into the heart of our best traditions and has seen with striking clarity that the modern quest for total liberation of the intellect and will is both quixotic and damaging individually and collectively This clever and engaging work is the result the dozen questions it asks are fresh and the answers it gives are powerfully persuasive Adrian Vermeule Ralph S Tyler Jr Professor of Constitutional Law Harvard Law School. 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