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Brazilian election coverage

3 October 202212 December 2022No Comments

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

Interviewed in the Global Times (China)

20 October 20212 Comments

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)

Bolsonaro – La Cosa

13 October 202113 October 2021No Comments

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

The White Lotus review

16 August 202125 August 2021No Comments

I’ve reviewed HBO’s mini-series, The White Lotus, for Jacobin: The White Lotus Is a Perfect Satire of Today’s Rich

TEOTEOH on the Jacobin Show

27 May 2021No Comments

I was on Jacobin Magazine’s The Jacobin Show, on YouTube, to talk about my forthcoming book, co-authored with George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe, The End of the End of History.