Oliver Traldi

Politics

On Making by Calling and the Need for Conversation

On Twitter, Bari Weiss of the New York Times has written: “[F]ailing to draw distinctions between people like Sam Harris and people like Richard Spencer strips the designation ‘alt-right’ of…

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11 min

Features

Campus Speech Debate: The Nightmare of the Nineties is Alive

On Tuesday night I was lucky enough to attend a very engaging debate at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. Organized by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and…

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3 min

Politics

Rhextortion: Misinterpretation by Proxy

The other day a friend linked me to a tweet from one journalist to another: “i think you want to be really careful,” it said, “about using language that sounds…

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11 min

Review

Mad Online; Or, The Enemy of My Enemy

In The Fragile Absolute Slavoj Zizek wrote of the Balkans that they’re “always somewhere else, a little bit more towards the southeast. . . .” Pundits seem part of a parallel…

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7 min

Politics

Are Campus and Media Conservatives Asking For It?

Recent interruptions of Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark College (and reactions to Bari Weiss’s New York Times editorial about them), and the Atlantic’s quick hiring and firing of Kevin…

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9 min

Politics

A Liberal Who Remembers

Lefty friends keep asking me if — or telling me that — I’m a conservative now. But I’m just a liberal who remembers what they’ve forgotten. I remember what it meant to…

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13 min

Features

Postmodernism Isn’t Playing Around Anymore

Recently, classical liberals’ understanding of the phenomenon of postmodernism has come under heavy fire, with Jordan Peterson in particular facing criticism for coining the phrase “postmodern neo-Marxist.” Though it’s fairly…

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15 min

Review

The Nightmare From Which Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying Not to Awake

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power is challenging and troubling, but the trouble does not derive mostly from the challenge. In the introduction Coates sets…

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13 min

What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know

Fittingly, Hillary Clinton tells us two contradictory things about the purpose of her confusing, tedious new tome What Happened?. First page: it’s “the story of what [she] saw, felt, and thought”…

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Oliver Traldi

On Making by Calling and the Need for Conversation

Campus Speech Debate: The Nightmare of the Nineties is Alive

Rhextortion: Misinterpretation by Proxy

Mad Online; Or, The Enemy of My Enemy

Are Campus and Media Conservatives Asking For It?

A Liberal Who Remembers

Postmodernism Isn’t Playing Around Anymore

The Nightmare From Which Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying Not to Awake

What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know

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