Alex Hochuli: blog & professional
Alex is a writer and political analyst based in São Paulo, Brazil and is host of the global politics podcast, Bungacast podcast. He is the…
As you can see, I don’t update this website very often at all. But people do end up popping by for some reason or other. So I figure I should update with a new post about things I wrote in 2023, in case you’re trying to figure out who I am and what I do. … Continue reading My 2023 in digital ink
UPDATE: Someone asked me for this, so here’s a link-dump of all the things I wrote and interviews I gave around the 2022 election (some of these are repeated below): Election preview in Unherd: https://unherd.com/2022/09/the-self-help-guru-who-conquered-brazil/ Election preview in Compact: https://compactmag.com/article/what-lula-s-comeback-means Report on the first round results for Unherd: https://unherd.com/thepost/brazils-biggest-losers-the-pollsters/ Report on the second round results for Unherd: https://unherd.com/thepost/the-resurrection-of-lula/ Post-election … Continue reading Brazilian election coverage
The Global Times has today published an interview with me about the Brazilianization of the World argument that I made in American Affairs earlier this year (tl;dr: my original, unedited responses are posted below). The Chinese paper had previously cited me in articles (here and here) that sought to use my argument about Western decline … Continue reading Interviewed in the Global Times (China)
A few months ago I was commissioned to write a thing about Bolsonaro, the thing. Or more specifically, about “the concept of Zombie Bolsonaro” for an Italian zine, Iconografie. My piece would accompany various images of Bolsonaro ill and in hospital – you can download the pdf here below. The English language original is republished … Continue reading Bolsonaro – La Cosa
I’ve reviewed HBO’s mini-series, The White Lotus, for Jacobin: The White Lotus Is a Perfect Satire of Today’s Rich
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