Anything but Marine Le Pen at the Élysée
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: A political storm in France: Marine Le Pen and the Rassemblement National
21/04/2025
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: A political storm in France: Marine Le Pen and the Rassemblement National
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Le Pen's trial raises all the alarm bells about the health of the institutions of one of the longest-standing countries in democratic practices and – for better or worse – a global reference in the matter
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Let it be recognized: the arrest of President Lula da Silva was unequivocally an act of treason against the country.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The entire year of 2024 passed without a single word from our greatest memorialist. Abandonment. Indifference. Silence. The exact opposite of the uproar of 1972.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The French are witnessing the end of the Fifth Republic before their very eyes
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The French political class and its economic and cultural elites have finally managed to throw the country into the unknown, rendering the entire regime dysfunctional.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris seem to be up to the challenges
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The initial moments of the Lutopetismo in power produced the “silence of the intellectuals”. A silence that, in truth, was fading all that intellectual strength inherited from the 1930 momentum until it was extinguished
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Since the Band debate it has become very clear that Pablo Marçal wants to demoralize Nunes and block Boulos more than win the election
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Silvio Almeida's downfall is much more serious than it seems. It goes far beyond Silvio Almeida's possible ethical and moral lapses and spreads to entire segments of Brazilian society.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Both economists, each in their own way, left profound, indelible, positive and superlative marks in the history of the country and in the lives of those who lived, whether a lot or a little, with them
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Comment on the recently released book by Rubens Ricupero
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: What was a simple defeat on June 9th, when the French legislature was dissolved, is now beginning to emerge as a curious French tragedy
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: If Marine Le Pen wins a majority in the French legislature in the election at the end of June and the beginning of next month, the French political class will be left with recognizing the legitimacy of a prime minister
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The debate on supporting or denying the strike at federal universities
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The federal teachers’ strike results in much deeper, fundamental and almost existential discomfort
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The fundamental aspect of the entire situation lies in the need for immediate recognition of the undeniable moral, intellectual, tactical and operational defeat of the entire category over the last ten, fifteen or twenty years
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: University spaces have accentuated their mediocrity and made persecution a rule
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: It took a long time for the message and meaning of Milan Kundera's work to be understood
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The high intensity of the eternal enterprise of good against evil fueled by passions was rehabilitated on October 7th
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: A political storm in France: Marine Le Pen and the Rassemblement National
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Le Pen's trial raises all the alarm bells about the health of the institutions of one of the longest-standing countries in democratic practices and – for better or worse – a global reference in the matter
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Let it be recognized: the arrest of President Lula da Silva was unequivocally an act of treason against the country.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The entire year of 2024 passed without a single word from our greatest memorialist. Abandonment. Indifference. Silence. The exact opposite of the uproar of 1972.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The French are witnessing the end of the Fifth Republic before their very eyes
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The French political class and its economic and cultural elites have finally managed to throw the country into the unknown, rendering the entire regime dysfunctional.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris seem to be up to the challenges
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The initial moments of the Lutopetismo in power produced the “silence of the intellectuals”. A silence that, in truth, was fading all that intellectual strength inherited from the 1930 momentum until it was extinguished
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Since the Band debate it has become very clear that Pablo Marçal wants to demoralize Nunes and block Boulos more than win the election
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Silvio Almeida's downfall is much more serious than it seems. It goes far beyond Silvio Almeida's possible ethical and moral lapses and spreads to entire segments of Brazilian society.
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Both economists, each in their own way, left profound, indelible, positive and superlative marks in the history of the country and in the lives of those who lived, whether a lot or a little, with them
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: Comment on the recently released book by Rubens Ricupero
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: What was a simple defeat on June 9th, when the French legislature was dissolved, is now beginning to emerge as a curious French tragedy
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: If Marine Le Pen wins a majority in the French legislature in the election at the end of June and the beginning of next month, the French political class will be left with recognizing the legitimacy of a prime minister
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The debate on supporting or denying the strike at federal universities
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The federal teachers’ strike results in much deeper, fundamental and almost existential discomfort
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The fundamental aspect of the entire situation lies in the need for immediate recognition of the undeniable moral, intellectual, tactical and operational defeat of the entire category over the last ten, fifteen or twenty years
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: University spaces have accentuated their mediocrity and made persecution a rule
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: It took a long time for the message and meaning of Milan Kundera's work to be understood
By DANIEL AFONSO DA SILVA: The high intensity of the eternal enterprise of good against evil fueled by passions was rehabilitated on October 7th