Contradictions Left and Right

Joshua Adams
8 min readMay 7, 2024

One of the best essay’s I’ve read in a long time was “The Brazilianization of the World” by Alex Hochuli.

Published in the American Affairs Journal, Hochuli talks about how the political and socioeconomic arrangements of the Brazil are increasing being seen in the rest of the world. He articulately yet bluntly illustrates how “hollowed-out state capacities, political confusion, cronyism, conspiratorial…

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Joshua Adams

Joshua Adams is a writer from Chicago. UVA & USC. Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Twitter: @ProfJoshuaA