I don’t necessarily endorse shopping on the Zon, but if you are so compelled there are only 3 copies of my book left in paperback. Recommended if you’re interested in Lula and the twentieth-century evolution of leftist politics in Latin America’s largest nation! a.co/d/6IyQSXj

From working-class unionist under dictatorship to three-term president, Lula da Silva’s journey reflects Brazil’s uneasy balance between procedural democracy and deep inequality. Below essay by ‪‪Andre Pagliarini @apagliar.bsky.social tracing the rise of Lula's pragmatic leftism.

From working-class unionist to three-term president, Lula da Silva’s journey reflects Brazil’s uneasy balance between procedural democracy and deep inequality. Our essay of the week traces the rise of Lula's pragmatic leftism. By @apagliar.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social buff.ly/ntqhJAr

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Always extra special to appear in print. Grab the November issue of @newrepublic.com for my review of Philippe Sands’ new book among other great pieces — including a cover story bound to be one of those genuinely memorable artifacts of this political moment

former students at Brown found my book in the wild 😊

I’m about to have a Twitter follower on Brazil’s Supreme Court www.metropoles.com/colunas/igor...

Now unpaywalled: @apagliar.bsky.social on Lula's long fight for democracy in Brazil. The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/lula...

For the November issue of @newrepublic.com, I reviewed “38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia” by Philippe Sands. It’s quite something. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

My recap of @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social at UNGA for @foreignpolicy.com (their coverage of the whole week is quite good!) foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/25/t...

No other way to put it than to note that this is just the craziest speech I’ve ever seen a US president deliver in a setting like this

“All options for stabilization are on the table” for Argentina while all options for *de*stabilization are on the table for Brazil 🤔

Bolsonaro’s conviction does not lay to rest his political hold on the most feverish contingent of Brazil’s right wing. Indeed, in some ways it raises more questions than it answers. My reaction to the Bolsonaro verdict and immediate aftermath for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/09/bols...

Congrats to André on the release of his book on Lula and the history of"Lulismo"!

Early in @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social’s third term, I was asked if I’d like to write a book about him by an editor at @politybooks.bsky.social… (1/3)

My university “seeks to be the first university in the country to tangibly re-assert its commitment to civil discourse and freedom of speech” by creating a lecture series in honor of Charlie Kirk lsureveille.com/262793/news/...

Our fall issue, Authoritarianism and Resistance, is out now! Featuring @patrickiber.bsky.social @sarahjones.bsky.social @apagliar.bsky.social @yangyangcheng.bsky.social @viririos.bsky.social @humbertobeck.bsky.social @petizagavarrete.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...

Continuing the blitz ahead of book release next week, I am very pleased to have an essay on Lula in the new @dissentmag.bsky.social, out today. The whole issue is timely, deep, and incredibly sharp.

Como disse o “companheiro” Alckmin outro dia, existem muitas *siglas* no Brasil mas poucos partidos

Independence Day in Brazil today meant competing demonstrations. Pro-Bolsonaro crowd celebrated the Stars and Stripes — a gesture of gratitude toward a nation waging a trade war against Brazil — while the left conspicuously sought to deepen its reclamation of the national colors

Article revised, resubmitted, and accepted for publication

Author copies in hand! Very excited

My department is hiring a TT position in 20th c Europe (not Britain), especially Eastern or Central Europe. Candidates must be able to assist in advising graduate students in German history. I'm not on committee but happy to answer questions. Please share! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...

“The Brazilian president may have faced down” Donald Trump, writes Andre Pagliarini. “But his biggest challenge is still to come.”

My @lsu.bsky.social History department colleague @apagliar.bsky.social, bringing the knowledge to the New York Times. 🗃️

Great op-ed from @apagliar.bsky.social. Let's all go buy his book! www.wiley.com/en-us/Lula%3...

With 2 weeks to go until my Lula book is out, I have an essay in today’s @nytimes.com/@nytopinion.nytimes.com presenting the stakes. Please consider preordering? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

How @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social reacts to Trump's threats is of profound interest to other large economies like Mexico and Canada. World leaders are watching closely how he fares in the standoff @apagliar.bsky.social

MAGA’s infatuation with Bolsonaro is ultimately just an egotistical display by Trumpists who see themselves and their leader as the center of the universe. They know nothing at all about Brazil or Bolsonaro but they know what happened to Trump, who’s on his side, and who to hate

This situation will get even worse if Trump’s tariffs go into effect against Brazil, the second largest source of steel imports for the US

Heads of state need to talk, Lula says. “I don’t think it’s wrong that Trump defends the interests of the United States. Now, what he has to keep in mind is that I have to defend Brazil’s interests.”

Great reporting and synthesis of where things stand from @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

Justified critiques of the Biden admin abound, but they deserve enormous credit for their stance on the 2022 Brazilian election. Events over last week make absolutely clear that if Trump had been president when Bolsonaro lost, Brazilian democracy would have been mortally wounded

So it’s now official US policy to bar jurists from other countries who hold coup mongers legally liable

My second — arguably more strident — piece on Trump's ludicrous trade war on Brazil, this time in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/17/b...

estarei em SP a partir de domingo 😄

Don’t think this made a dent in the discourse when it came out in 2020 but I’m about 60 pages in and really enjoying it. The writing is excellent and it’s a model of how to discuss a different historical moment with an eye to the present without it ever feeling forced.

My first piece on Trump’s unprecedented trade war against Brazil and what it might say about the new Cold War that so many in Washington seem to want newrepublic.com/article/1978...

Most of the world resists the forced binary posited here. Indeed, for all the ways that MAGA departs from US political orthodoxy, this is right in line with the blustery Cold War logic that produced so much global suffering. A recipe for further US alienation and decline.

I’ll be writing something on the latest developments, but I wrote this for @newrepublic.com back in March. The Bolsonaro clan got their wish! newrepublic.com/article/1928...

What would Trump say if the president of a foreign country slapped tariffs on the US because its Supreme Court, say, ended birthright citizenship?

I’ll be writing something on the latest developments, but I wrote this for @newrepublic.com back in March. The Bolsonaro clan got their wish! newrepublic.com/article/1928...

Trump just made @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social the bulwark against neocolonialism, a role he is more than happy to play

Even considering who he has around him, it’s hard to believe Trump was actually advised to take this course of action vis-a-vis Brazil by anyone who knows anything about the country and the region. Bad policy and extremely bad politics.

Interested in Lula and how we got to this point in Brazil-US relations? Do I have the book for you…

Simplesmente não acho que Tarcísio tem estômago pra enfrentar o Lula www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/dora...

Imo this is a political gift to Lula, but it’s what the most assiduous underminers of Brazilian democracy have been hoping for since Trump’s return👇

Friends in the UK and US: use the code below to get my forthcoming Lula book from @politybooks.bsky.social (July in UK, September in US). I am lining up a few conversations about it already and hoping to do more. Let me know if you’d like to talk! 🤜🤛

Finally read this and found it frankly embarrassing. There are legitimate criticisms to be made of Lula's foreign policy, but hard to derive much utility from analysis so shallow, smug, and trite 1/?

Friends in the UK and US: use the code below to get my forthcoming Lula book from @politybooks (July in UK, September in US). I am lining up a few conversations about it already and hoping to do more. Let me know if you’d like to talk! 🤜🤛