Tyranny Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It (+ Opposing the Eugenicist, Nietzschean Right) w/ Sohrab Ahmari

On this edition of Parallax Views, Sohrab Ahmari of the online magazine Compact joins the show to discuss his intriguing new book Tyranny Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty--and What to Do About It. Sohrab is a self-described "man of the Right". As such one may expect that Tyranny Inc. is another addition to the growing cottage industry conservative diatribes about "woke capitalism". That's what makes the book so interesting though. Rather than offering an extended invective against "woke capital", Ahmari opts instead to offer a surprisingly materialist-based critical analysis of neoliberal capitalism and the darkest consequences of it. One could easily mistake it for having been written by a left-wing thinker. Ahmari even cites such figures associated with broadly leftist tendencies such as Marxist economic geographer David Harvey and economist J.K. Galbraith. In this conversation we discuss the key points of his book, his hopes for regulation of the corporate power in America going forward (which could be spearheaded by the political odd couple of Elizabeth Warren and JD Vance), capitalism and atomization, regional capital (small business owners) as the power base of the GOP that prevents Republicans from being a truly working class-friendly party, and, in the latter portion of the conversation, Ahmari's laudable, Catholic-driven opposition to the emergent trend of a racist, social darwinist, and eugenicist segment of the right that he calls the "Nietzschean Right".