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2 months ago | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Osita Nwanevu |Damir Marusic |Samuel Kimbriel |Oliver Traldi
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -46:49Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Last week’s episode dealt with the state of the American Right post-election. Today we ask: Where is the American Left going? How will it respond to Trump? “There is a palpable sense of passivity on the Left,” says . “What I’ve seen is resignation or weird, detached analysis,” says . Is there more going on than we see?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Oliver Traldi |Terry Anderson |John Ganz
REVIEW ESSAYWhy the Nineties Matterby Terry H. AndersonOxford University Press, 2024, 360 pagesWhen the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990sby John GanzFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, 432 pagesCalendars to the contrary, most people who talk about the 1990s close the decade with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Oliver Traldi
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, by Musa al-Gharbi (Princeton, 432 pp., $35)What is a theory? In philosophy, we usually think of it as a set of propositions. These propositions might be challenged directly, or they might turn out to generate empirical predictions or logical consequences that could be challenged instead.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic |Oliver Traldi
Every month, we give subscribers a chance to provoke our writers. This month, Shadi first took on Middle East politics and then turned to the more personal provocations he received — on kids, religion, and the mysteries of living well. By popular demand — and because we will also publish a response to it — we have unpaywalled Shadi’s original, unpublished “personal” piece.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
fusionaier.org | Oliver Traldi
August 22, 2024By Oliver Traldi The second film by writer and director Whit Stillman, the male Jane Austen of the nineteen-nineties, is Barcelona. It turned thirty this July. Much like Austen, Stillman is a gentle ironist most loved, and I suspect much misunderstood, by the kind of people at whom he is most likely to poke fun.
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May 9, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Oliver Traldi
“Politics,” they say, “ain’t beanbag.” In other words, it’s not just a game. Today, many descriptions of American political life begin with the observation that there is a great deal of disagreement when it comes to our political beliefs. And this disagreement is characterized as being increasingly rancorous, polarized, and ubiquitous. Family get-togethers turn sour over political arguments. Relationships end, or don’t ever begin, because of political differences.
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May 9, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Oliver Traldi
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
routledge.com | Oliver Traldi
Table of Contents Book DescriptionCritics' Reviews1st EditionBy Oliver TraldiCopyright 2024284 Pages2 B/W IllustrationsbyRoutledge284 Pages2 B/W IllustrationsbyRoutledge Anyone who’s had an argument about politics with a friend may walk away wondering how this friend could possibly hold the beliefs they do. A few self-reflective people might even wonder about their own political beliefs after such an argument.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Oliver Traldi
There I was again, in an Uber with a driver who seemed to want nothing more than to chat. In this case, she had a number of life lessons for me. I was vaguely irritated. I had work to get done, and I was hoping to have twenty minutes to type away, under the illusion perhaps that I could fight time by taking these bite-sized drives and making them into more than the sum of their somewhat meaningless parts.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Oliver Traldi
According to ancient wisdom, we humans find lasting happiness only when we shrink our sense of self and its desires. When we reduce our wants, we reduce our frustrations, in this sun-whipped desert world of obstacles and lacks. Perhaps, done well, such an approach to life remains promising. But the life of sand and strife is not the one most readers find themselves in.
