May 14, 2021
Podcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath
By Sohrab Ahmari, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicThe journalist joins us to talk about his new book and to explain how keeping the Sabbath can benefit Americans of all faiths.
This Week’s Guest: Sohrab Ahmari
The hallmark of the American constitutional system was the idea that all men are created equal. Of course, the American regime did not live up to that ambition for centuries, but the ideal of equality was embedded in the foundation of the republic.
From equality follows freedom: if every person is created equal, then no other person has the right to tell any one else what to do. And freedom comes with a cost: the sentiment that leads a free person to resist the rule of another is the same sentiment that leads a free person to resist the wisdom and guidance of another. Thus Americans are naturally suspicious of the accumulated wisdom of the past—of tradition.