Oliver Traldi

Oliver Traldi is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

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The Pervert’s Guide to Philosophy

Costin Alamariu’s (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesn’t add up to much.

Oliver Traldi

25 Nov 2023 · 19 min read

Civil Rights and Wrongs

Richard Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete.

Oliver Traldi

23 Sep 2023 · 16 min read

The State of ‘Nature’

Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know.

Oliver Traldi

29 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations

The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.

Oliver Traldi

24 Feb 2023 · 7 min read

Affirmative Action Conundrums

Kendi’s defensive salvo raises broader issues about affirmative action.

Oliver Traldi

12 Nov 2021 · 11 min read

The Role of Politics in Academic Philosophy

Clearly it is possible to do politics in philosophy without doing political philosophy.

Oliver Traldi

26 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

The Case for Contrarianism

Without such a process occurring, outsiders will be unable to look at the market and garner any reliable knowledge about the state of the world.

Oliver Traldi

10 Oct 2017 · 8 min read

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

Mark Lilla has written a book asserting that liberals should be more committed democrats.

Oliver Traldi

2 Sep 2017 · 15 min read

"Kill All Normies" Online Culture Wars and the Rise of the Alt-Right—A Review

Kill All Normies is merely a good start in need of deeper research, broader connections, clearer argumentation, and a great deal of editing.

Oliver Traldi

19 Jul 2017 · 17 min read

A Line in the Sand for Academic Philosophy

Tuvel was criticized for not citing enough black or transgender scholars. Such a complaint could be leveled at virtually any philosophy paper.

Oliver Traldi

9 May 2017 · 10 min read