Understanding Your Vote
02/10/2026
Understanding Your VoteIn October 2026, more than 150 million Brazilians will go to the polls. They will elect a president, senators, federal deputies, governors, state deputies, and city councillors...
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The Problem of Agency in the Papal Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
02/10/2026
The Problem of Agency in the Papal Encyclical Magnifica HumanitasOn May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV published what was then the newest papal encyclical, entitled Magnifica Humanitas. The title in Latin is...
Peru, Party Systems, and a Strange Case of Autocratization
31/07/2026
Peru, Party Systems, and a Strange Case of AutocratizationIn previous columns (referenced below), we discussed some of the contemporary sources of autocratization around the world. We talked about the...
Peru, Party Systems, and a Strange Case of Autocratization
31/07/2026
Peru, Party Systems, and a Strange Case of AutocratizationIn previous columns (referenced below), we discussed some of the contemporary sources of autocratization around the world. We talked about the...
Quo Vadis, Democrats?
01/07/2026
Quo Vadis, Democrats?In 2017, I was an exchange student—or, as my Lisbon classmates would kindly correct me with their European references, I was doing my “Erasmus” at the Portuguese Catholic Universi...
Is Fighting Corruption Authoritarian?
31/05/2026
Is Fighting Corruption Authoritarian? The fight against corruption is often presented as the natural path to strengthening democracy. It is not uncommon to hear that, if we eliminate bribery, favoriti...
Are There Human Rights Outside the West?
30/04/2026
When I pursued my undergraduate degree in International Relations in Brazil, between 2016 and 2019, I encountered a curious narrative. Years later, I would hear it again from Egyptian, Congolese, Salv...
What if the end of democracy doesn’t come from the people or the government? Big Tech and the capture of the American state
31/03/2026
I recently published an international politics analysis for the Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik, in which I explored the possibility of an autocracy emerging not from executive ag...
Education between inheritance and choice
06/03/2026
In the column “What to Do When They Vote Against Your Right to Vote,” I described a cold morning in Vienna, a train bound for Budapest, and a lecture that dismantled some of the most comfortable certa...
A Cursed Inheritance
31/01/2026
My maternal grandfather, a man endowed with singular historical knowledge and a sharp curiosity about domestic and global politics, began almost all of our encounters with the same warning: one had to...
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