Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is in Florida right now and he wants to stay longer. This makes sense for the Trump-inspired former leader. After all, some of his followers recently tried to storm the Brazilian capitol with the hopes […]
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Can pro-lifers on abortion and Democratic Socialists work together in Brazil?
Check out this very interesting piece at Jacobin by historian Travis Knoll: In short, [Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva] respects religion without instrumentalizing or being instrumentalized by it. Such alliances have come with serious challenges, especially on sexual […]
The latest American export: insurrections
The United States loves to export its political ideals and practices to the rest of the world. The latest export seems to be antidemocratic insurrections. Here is a taste of Anne Applebaum’s Atlantic piece: “What the Rioters in Brazil Learned […]
“The Beautiful Game”
RIP:
The difference between American evangelicals and Brazilian evangelicals
Evangelical Christianity is playing a significant role in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election. If you want to get up to speed on this story I recommend Christianity Today’s recent feature. Over at The Conversation, political scientist Amy Eric Smith distinguishes between […]
Goal of the night
Brazil won 2-1. (Current editor Eric Miller and Current writer Alexandre Brasil Fonseca are happy!) But this Colombia goal was incredible:
Brazilian evangelicals oppose church closings
If you have been following the COVID-19 outbreaks in Brazil I think you will find an upcoming Current feature insightful. “How Long,” a piece by Brazilian public intellectual Alexandre Brasil Fonseca, will appear this week. Stay tuned. In the meantime, […]