The Unbroken Thread

The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari

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I listened to this as an audible book. The effect was like having a conversation with a smart and deep friend. I enjoyed it tremendously.

The basic frame of the book is that Ahmari wants his infant son to have something better than the intellectual wasteland it looks like will be his lot in the future. Ahmari's answer is to ask the classic questions about life and consider what the traditional answers have been. Ahmari introduces each chapter with a person who illustrates the issue in question, such as C.S. Lewis or St. Thomas Aquinas. These introductions are empathetic, inspirational, and insightful. I learned things about Aquinas that I had not known before. His skill is put to the ultimate test when he uses Andrea Dworkin as the springboard for a discussion about modesty and pornography, where he makes the point that fat, lesbian, loud Dworkin's concern about the kultursmog of porn was something to be concerned about.

I enjoyed the whole book and recommend it highly.