Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar.bsky.social
Historian writing about Lula, nationalism & mass politics / @LSU / @BrownHist PhD / @QuincyInst / @Brazil_Office / @Fulbrightprgrm / 🇧🇷🇺🇸
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
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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 😊
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
former students at Brown found my book in the wild 😊
“All options for stabilization are on the table” for Argentina while all options for *de*stabilization are on the table for Brazil 🤔
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“All options for stabilization are on the table” for Argentina while all options for *de*stabilization are on the table for Brazil 🤔
Understanding the conditions that made Lula possible requires us to look further back, decades before he was born. The result of that discussion is “Lula: A People’s President and the Fight for Brazil’s Future” — out today! I’m proud and happy that it’s done (3/3)
September 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Understanding the conditions that made Lula possible requires us to look further back, decades before he was born. The result of that discussion is “Lula: A People’s President and the Fight for Brazil’s Future” — out today! I’m proud and happy that it’s done (3/3)
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.
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.
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
September 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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
September 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Article revised, resubmitted, and accepted for publication
Author copies in hand! Very excited
September 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Author copies in hand! Very excited
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.”
July 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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
July 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great reporting and synthesis of where things stand from @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
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.
July 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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.
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.
July 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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.
Trump just made @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social the bulwark against neocolonialism, a role he is more than happy to play
July 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump just made @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social the bulwark against neocolonialism, a role he is more than happy to play
Interested in Lula and how we got to this point in Brazil-US relations? Do I have the book for you…
July 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Interested in Lula and how we got to this point in Brazil-US relations? Do I have the book for you…
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👇
July 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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! 🤜🤛
July 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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! 🤜🤛
The concluding paragraph encapsulates the piece's intellectual laziness... 10/?
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The concluding paragraph encapsulates the piece's intellectual laziness... 10/?
Fair, though I don't think we can blame Lula's current struggle in polls on longstanding associations in the minds of voters. After all, he's the only person to unseat an incumbent since the return of democracy, a feat that occurred *after* all the bad stuff mentioned here 9/?
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fair, though I don't think we can blame Lula's current struggle in polls on longstanding associations in the minds of voters. After all, he's the only person to unseat an incumbent since the return of democracy, a feat that occurred *after* all the bad stuff mentioned here 9/?
Any recognition of the fact that, despite their differences, Brazil helped Argentina manage its affairs in Venezuela after Maduro's most recent sham election (see below), the legitimacy of which Lula refused to recognize? Of course not 8/? www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Any recognition of the fact that, despite their differences, Brazil helped Argentina manage its affairs in Venezuela after Maduro's most recent sham election (see below), the legitimacy of which Lula refused to recognize? Of course not 8/? www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
Fair criticism: Lula didn't need to be there, although he framed it as a celebration of defeat of fascism in WWII. Still, the way the piece frames its critique — Lula wasted his time trying to push Russia to negotiate! — is puzzling 7/?
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fair criticism: Lula didn't need to be there, although he framed it as a celebration of defeat of fascism in WWII. Still, the way the piece frames its critique — Lula wasted his time trying to push Russia to negotiate! — is puzzling 7/?
Again, is this bad? Why should Lula care if increasing Brazilian exports comes at the expense of the US? 6/?
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Again, is this bad? Why should Lula care if increasing Brazilian exports comes at the expense of the US? 6/?
On the other hand, Lula did not take the path blazed by Gustavo Petro, who actually broke with Washington shortly after Trump's inauguration. Any credit for maintaining productive ties with the US amid the unprecedented global uncertainty Trump has single-handedly created? 5/?
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
On the other hand, Lula did not take the path blazed by Gustavo Petro, who actually broke with Washington shortly after Trump's inauguration. Any credit for maintaining productive ties with the US amid the unprecedented global uncertainty Trump has single-handedly created? 5/?
Is this...bad? Doesn't this agenda contradict the suggestion that Brazil is embracing the negative agenda of US adversaries like Russia and China? 4/?
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Is this...bad? Doesn't this agenda contradict the suggestion that Brazil is embracing the negative agenda of US adversaries like Russia and China? 4/?
Article lumps Brazil in with the policy viewpoints of new BRICS members despite many reports — including in The Economist! (see below) — that Lula actually opposed BRICS expansion and is decidedly against a turn against "the West" 3/? www.economist.com/internationa...
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Article lumps Brazil in with the policy viewpoints of new BRICS members despite many reports — including in The Economist! (see below) — that Lula actually opposed BRICS expansion and is decidedly against a turn against "the West" 3/? www.economist.com/internationa...