Short book review: Amitav Ghosh’s “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis”Amitav Ghosh is an accomplished and celebrated Indian writer and a social anthropologist from Calcutta, based in New York City. But it was…Feb 13, 2022Feb 13, 2022
Short Book Review: “Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins…“Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism,” by James Peck, is a central book in my PhD…Dec 3, 2020Dec 3, 2020
Short book review: Vincent Bevins’ “The Jakarta Method”Remember that leftist slogan, “Another world is possible”? Turns out, not only was another world possible, but in fact another world did…Oct 18, 2020Oct 18, 2020
Eleições britânicasMal saiu a boca de urna na quinta-feira 12 de dezembro nas eleições britânicas e análises mundo afora começaram a pipocar — na maioria dos…Dec 16, 20191Dec 16, 20191
Short book review: Srećko Horvart's “Poetry from the Future: Why a Global Liberation Movement Is…Srećko Horvart, a philosopher from Croatia, is one of the most interesting thinkers in Europe today (don’t take my word for it: the German…Nov 22, 2019Nov 22, 2019
Resenha de “Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century…Peter M. Beattie (2015). Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony. Durham and…Apr 10, 2019Apr 10, 2019
NATO at 70: it’s time to retireAt NATO’s 70th anniversary gathering, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence didn’t mince his words to criticize Germany: “It is simply…Apr 4, 2019Apr 4, 2019
Cancelamento de Bannon em festinha da New Yorker não é caso de liberdade de expressão, mas de…Em recente coluna na Folha (21/09/2018), o articulista João Pereira Coutinho recorre ao cancelamento da participação do ex-assessor de…Sep 27, 2018Sep 27, 2018
Los migrantes que no importan, Óscar MartínezBetween 2008 and 2010, Óscar Martínez, a journalist from El Salvador, set out to trace the trail that so many poor Central Americans had…Jul 8, 2018Jul 8, 2018