Sohrab Ahmari
@SohrabAhmari
US editor, @UnHerd. Author of THE UNBROKEN THREAD and TYRANNY, INC., for @PenguinRandom Writing my next book, on THE TRIUMPH OF NORMAL, for @HarperCollins
In all of Ari Aster's films, characters are trapped in structures which know them better than they know themselves, and which they can't escape. In @eddingtonmovie's case, the structure is the Western mythos itself. My @unherd review essay. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
Philos rapidly losing support after director criticizes Catholic leaders for condemning Israeli strike on Gaza parish - CatholicVote org. catholicvote.org/philos-catholi…
All of Aster’s previous films concern the failure of the paternal function and depict subjects who, deprived of it, are left at the mercy of an overbearing feminine principle. This holds for Eddington, too. @SohrabAhmari reviews. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
Aster isn’t a conservative, except in the narrowly psychoanalytic sense epitomized by Jacques Lacan’s formula: The Father . . . or worse. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
The moment when the Manhattan theater where I watched EDDINGTON erupted in roaring laughter: A high schooler lectures his working-class white family on the need for “white abolition.” The father’s response: “Are you a fucking retard? You’re white.” unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
"In the new West, the cowboys are no less in thrall to corporate power than the Indians." My essay on Ari Aster's new masterpiece, EDDINGTON. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
Though he skewers 2020 woke-ism in Eddington, Ari Aster is astute enough not to rest content with a too-easy anti-wokeism. Instead, he uncovers deeper psychic dysfunctions roiling beneath both woke and anti-woke. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
"Eddington: No country for woke men." Read @SohrabAhmari's review of director Ari Aster's bleak new Western. unherd.com/2025/07/edding…
Stop saying unspeakably dumb/bigoted things about Mideast Christians, and you'll stop getting ratio'd to oblivion.
This is all within the last hour in response to the same tweet. I have not directly engaged with him at all.
There’s a reason for that. The messiah is Jesus of Nazareth, not Jesus of Nashville
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
People named Khalil were Christian while parts of the West were still shadowed by paganism.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
Homie, the first Christians had names like Kefa, Mattityahu, and Sha’ul. Not Brad and Becky.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
The Apostle Park is a very important figure in aboriginal Christianity, but you can only find his teaching in the apocrypha.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
Wait until this guy finds out that Christ founded Christianity in the Middle East, and that Protestantism is only 500 years old.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
Wait to find out about the thousands of Palestinian and other indigenous Christians called Abdullah! - or Osama!
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
Christianity didn’t start with men named Park, that’s for sure.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...