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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

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

I was on The Brazilian Report‘s Explaining Brazil podcast to discuss the legacy of Operation Car Wash, the massive anti-corruption investigations that saw Lula sentenced and removed from the political game.

I was interviewed for an extensively quoted in a piece entitled “Why the age-gap debate is getting old”, by Madeleine Holden, in MEL Magazine. I argue that the boundaries of adulthood have changed, while adults are increasingly infantilised, such that an age gap between romantic partners is seen as predatory.