Writer Sohrab Ahmari left the repression in his home country of Iran to find freedom in an icon of the west – the United States. But in his telling, his new home revealed how excessive freedom can enslave rather than liberate.

Writer Sohrab Ahmari left the repression in his home country of Iran to find freedom in an icon of the west – the United States. But in his telling, his new home revealed how excessive freedom can enslave rather than liberate.