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May 28, 2026
#65

Brazil is playing an outsized role on the global stage, and for good reason. With the largest rainforest area in the world, the future of the planet hinges in no small part on decisions made in the Amazon. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “Lula,” has inspired a second coming of non-aligned states—middle powers, in today’s IR parlance—which strive to present a collective alternative to American empire. Elections will be held on October 4 to determine whether a member of the reactionary Bolsonaro clan will return to office and unseat Lula, the progressive champion, who is running for a fourth term. A lot is at stake. No small reason why The Ideas Letter 65 is focused on the largest country in South America, which the pre-colonization Tupi Indigenous people referred as “Pindorama,” the land of the palms.

First out of the gate is the remarkable political philosopher and public intellectual Marcos Nobre. You’ll recall that we featured an essay by Nobre in The Ideas Letter 14 that introduced his concept of neo-extractivism to make sense of a new form of the dependency model in Brazil and more broadly in the international system. In this piece, Nobre takes the measure of Brazilian history since the resumption of civilian rule in 1985 and traces the patterns and ruptures that produced this conjunctural moment. Nobre argues that Brazil faces a political crisis today and that the stakes of this year’s elections are high because the system based on elite accommodation established after the dictatorship is breaking down, giving way to a sharper conflict between a resurgent far-right and a weakened but still-central left. Nobre is hopeful but hardly optimistic.

Returning to history, the Brazilian social scientist and policy analyst Miguel Lago reconsiders what could usefully be mined from the radical and authoritarian presidency of Getúlio Vargas (1930–45 and 1951–54). Lago argues that Vargas, one of the most consequential leaders in Brazilian history, has been misunderstood, ideologically misclassified, and thus marginalized from political memory. Vargas should be remembered less as an ideologue than as a network actor—a leader who mediated among diverse social forces while making himself the indispensable center of Brazil’s political life. His importance, Lago concludes, lies in his method not his doctrine.

Finally, Oliver Stuenkel, a Brazilian-German political scientist, pushes back on Daniel Bessner’s claims in IL 63 that that a new world order will be sharply demarcated into rigid spheres of influence claimed by the great powers. Using Latin America as a central case, he shows that in today’s interconnected world neither El Norte nor any other major country can fully dominate neighboring regions (or exclude its rivals from them). Brazil’s multi-alignment strategy is a better bet to avoid dependence. Hedging is destiny!

Were the great Marxist historical sociologist Moishe Postone still with us (he died in 2018), he would certainly be banging the drum for a deeper structural analysis of neoliberalism. We begin our curated section with an Andrew Liu essay from Critical Historical Studies, a publication Postone helped establish (with William Sewell), which argues that histories of neoliberalism should move beyond surface-level accounts of markets and toward studying the deeper capitalist dynamics of value and the changing composition of capital. Postone was a legend for those who knew him at the University of Chicago, and this essay on his thinking makes clear why that was so.

Following Postone, the journal International Political Sociology showcases a forum-style essay about how anti-colonial and decolonial language is increasingly being used by reactionaries and nationalists to attack liberal universalism. Wisely, the authors caution against treating every anti-imperialist claim as decolonial or progressive: Concepts like “multipolarity,” “civilizational states,” and “pluriverse” can be used to justify spheres of influence and extant hierarchies.

When you’ve finished the aforementioned and taken notes, we offer a palette cleanser: A love letter to the em-dash. This noble sentence mark has been having a devil of a time lately as AI seems to favor it in its slop. Before we allow LLMs to jettison the baby with the bathwater, Mihika Agarwal in The Walrus brings us back to our (punctuational) senses.

It should come as little surprise that for our musical selection we would spotlight Sonny Rollins, aka Newk, following his passing this week at the age of 95. In a cosmically coincidental moment, Rollins died the day before the centenary of Miles Davis’s birth. Newk and Miles played together extensively in the early 1950s, and here is a track of them from a 1954 side, along with Horace Silver, Kenny Clarke, and Percy Heath, performing the Gershwins’ “But Not For Me.” (Rollins comes in at 2:23).

—Leonard Benardo, vice president at the Open Society Foundations"

Jacob Siegel misleads readers in his new book. When I asked for corrections, he cried censorship in The Free Press—writing as accuser, investigator, and fact-checker all in one. A lie-machine exposé.

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This watermelon marg is a super fun summer drink. It was a real hit the other night.

Watermelon Margarita

1.5 oz Mezcal (or Tequila, whatever you like)

.75 oz Acid adjusted watermelon Juice *

.75 oz Orange Liqueur (I used Pierre Ferrand)

1 glug of Agave nectar a few drops of saline solution

Shake and serve!

*Acidulated Watermelon

4% Citric Acid

2% Malic Acid

For 500 ml of Watermelon Juice I added 20g Citric acid and 10g malic acid. This makes it taste like a watermelon, but have the acidity of a lime, which is pretty neat. Then you can make watermelon sours without adding lime juice. This makes balancing the cocktail pretty easy!

I made a video about the whole thing if you like cocktail videos: https://youtu.be/PMes69sR51M

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"Proletarian revolutions . . . pitilessly scoff at the hesitations, weaknesses and inadequacies of their first efforts, seem to throw down their adversary only to see him draw new strength from the earth and rise again formidably before them, recoil again and again before the immensity of their tasks, until a situation is finally created that goes beyond the point of no return."

--Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Comrades,

The collapse of the revolutionary image presented by the international Communist movement is taking place forty years after the collapse of the revolutionary movement itself. This time gained for the bureaucratic lie -- that supplement to the permanent bourgeois lie -- has been time lost for the revolution. The history of the modern world pursues its revolutionary course, but unconsciously or with false consciousness. Everywhere there are social confrontations, but nowhere is the old order destroyed, not even within the very forces that contest it. Everywhere the ideologies of the old world are criticized and rejected, but nowhere is "the real movement that suppresses existing conditions" liberated from one or another "ideology" in Marx's sense of the word: ideas that serve masters. Revolutionaries are everywhere, but nowhere is there any real revolution.

The recent collapse of the Ben-Bellaist image of a quasi-revolution in Algeria is a striking example of this general failure. The superficial power of Ben Bella represented the moment of rigid balance between the movement of the Algerian workers toward the management of the entire society and the bourgeois bureaucracy in the process of formation within the framework of the state. But in this official balance the revolution had nothing with which to further its objectives -- it had already become a museum piece -- whereas those in possession of the state controlled all power, beginning with that fundamental repressive instrument, the army, to the point of finally being able to throw off their mask, i.e. Ben Bella. Two days before the putsch, at Sidi Bel Abbes, Ben Bella added the ridiculous to the odious by declaring that Algeria was "more united than ever." Now he has stopped lying to the people and the events speak for themselves. Ben Bella fell as he had reigned, in solitude and conspiracy, by a palace revolution. He was ushered out by the same forces that had ushered him in: Boumédienne's army, which had opened the road to Algiers for him in September 1962. Ben Bella's regime ratified the revolutionary conquests that the bureaucracy was not yet able to repress: the self-management movement. The forces so well hidden behind the "Muslim Brother" Boumédienne have this clear goal: to eliminate all self-management. The June 19th Declaration sums up the policy of the new regime with a mixture of Western technocratic jargon and bombast about enforcing Islamic moral values: "We must put a stop to the current stagnation, which is already manifesting itself in lowered productivity, decreasing profitability and a disturbing withdrawal of investments," while "keeping in mind our faith, our convictions and the secular traditions and moral values of our people."

The astonishing acceleration of practical demystification must now serve to accelerate revolutionary theory. The same society of alienation, of totalitarian control (here the sociologist predominates, there the police), and of spectacular consumption (here the cars and gadgets, there the words of the venerated leader) reigns everywhere, despite the diversity of its ideological and juridical disguises. The coherence of this society cannot be understood without an all-encompassing critique, illuminated by the inverse project of a liberated creativity, the project of everyone's control of all levels of their own history. This is the demand in acts of all proletarian revolutions, a demand until now defeated by the specialists of power who take over revolutions and turn them into their own private property.

To revive and bring into the present this inseparable, mutually illuminating project and critique entails appropriating all the radicalism borne by the workers movement, by modern Western poetry and art (as preface to an experimental research toward a free construction of everyday life), by the thought of the period of the supersession and realization of philosophy (Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx), and by the liberation struggles from the Mexico of 1910 to the Congo of today. To do this, it is first of all necessary to recognize, without holding on to any consoling illusions, the full extent of the defeat of the entire revolutionary project in the first third of this century and its official replacement, in every region of the world and in every domain of life, by delusive shams and petty reforms that camouflage and preserve the old order. The domination of bureaucratic state-capitalism over the workers is the opposite of socialism -- this is a fact that Trotskyism has refused to face. Socialism exists wherever the workers themselves directly manage the entire society. It therefore exists neither in Russia nor in China nor anywhere else. The Russian and Chinese revolutions were defeated from within. Today they provide the Western proletariat and the peoples of the Third World with a false model which actually serves as a mere counterbalance to the power of bourgeois capitalism and imperialism.

A resumption of radicality naturally requires a considerable deepening of all the old attempts at liberation. Seeing how those attempts failed due to isolation, or were converted into total frauds, enables one to get a better grasp of the coherence of the world that needs to be changed. In the light of this rediscovered coherence, many of the partial explorations of the recent past can be salvaged and brought to their true fulfillment (the liberating content of psychoanalysis, for example, can be neither understood nor realized apart from the struggle for the abolition of all repression).(1) Insight into this reversible coherence of the world -- its present reality in relation to its potential reality -- enables one to see the fallaciousness of half-measures and to recognize the presence of such half-measures each time the operating pattern of the dominant society -- with its categories of hierarchization and specialization and its corresponding habits and tastes -- reconstitutes itself within the forces of negation.

Moreover, the material development of the world has accelerated. It constantly accumulates more potential powers; but the specialists of the management of society, because of their role as guardians of passivity, are forced to ignore the potential use of those powers. This same development produces widespread dissatisfaction and objective mortal dangers which these specialized rulers are incapable of permanently controlling. The fundamental problem of underdevelopment must be resolved on a worldwide scale, beginning with the revolutionary overcoming of the irrational overdevelopment of productive forces in the framework of the various forms of rationalized capitalism. The revolutionary movements of the Third World can succeed only on the basis of a lucid contribution to global revolution. Development must not be a race to catch up with capitalist reification, but a satisfaction of all real needs as the basis for a genuine development of human faculties.

New revolutionary theory must move in step with reality, it must keep abreast with the revolutionary praxis which is starting up here and there but which yet remains partial, mutilated and without a coherent total project. Our language, which will perhaps seem fantastic, is the very language of real life. History continues to present ever more glaring confirmations of this. If in this history the familiar is not necessarily known, it is because real life itself only appears in a fantastic form, in the upside-down image imposed on it by the modern spectacle of the world: in the spectacle all social life, including even the representation of sham revolutions, is written in the lying language of power and filtered by its machines. The spectacle is the terrestrial heir of religion, the opium of a capitalism that has arrived at the stage of a "society of abundance" of commodities. It is the illusion actually consumed in "consumer society."

The sporadic explosions of revolutionary contestation are countered by an international organization of repression, operating with a global division of tasks. Each of the blocs, or of the spinoff splinters of blocs, ensures the lethargic sleep of everyone within its sphere of influence, contributing toward maintaining a global order that remains fundamentally the same. This permanent repression ranges from military interventions to the more or less complete falsification practiced today by every constituted power: "The truth is revolutionary" (Gramsci) and all existing governments, even those issuing out of the most liberatory movements, are based on lies inside and out. It is precisely this repression that constitutes the most resounding verification of our hypotheses.

Revolutionary endeavors of today, because they have to break all the rules of false understanding imposed by the "peaceful coexistence" of reigning lies, begin in isolation, in one particular sector of the world or in one particular sector of contestation. Possessing only the most rudimentary conception of freedom, they attack only the most immediate aspect of oppression. As a result, they meet with the minimum degree of aid and the maximum of repression and slander (they are accused of rejecting one existing order while necessarily approving of an existing variant of it). The more difficult their victory, the more easily it is confiscated by new oppressors. The next revolutions can find aid in the world only by attacking this world as a whole. The freedom movement of the American blacks, if it can assert itself … [more]

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I LIKE THIS FIC'S WRITING BUT NOT THE SHIP. LOL I'M ALSO STARTING TO THINK I DON'T LIKE THE PREMISE. // THE SHIP IS STRATT/GRACE WHICH I CAN PROBABLY ROLL WITH IN THE BACKGROUND. BUT I JUST NOTICED THE TAGS SUGGEST GRACE ISN'T GOING BACK TO ERID, AND I'M AGAINST THAT.

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Well, as the title says…after almost 2 years in HIMS, I was officially released from monitoring as of the 19th. It all stemmed from a boneheaded move back in 2022 that resulted in a DWI. However, it’s been an amazing journey from then, to now. Haven’t had a drop of alcohol since the night it happened and today I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. I promise guys, there’s a life after all this, hang in there, do the work, believe in yourself and you’ll get through it.

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A month ago I posted my little file organizer on Reddit and it got way more attention than I expected. Since then, the #1 request was always Linux support.

I know that this topic is discussed a lot. I was on Lexapro for around 2 years and came off it (my choice) around 2023. I had been seeing a therapist just to talk about everyday stuff, no major depression or anxiety and had discussed SSRI's with them after speaking with a friend who was on them and was told they can help with just leveling out emotions. I spoke with a NP at the same office and ended up getting the prescription. There was never a time she told me she was diagnosing me with anything; no "You have XYZ". Eventually I decided I didn't want to take them anymore after speaking with her about it and I came off of them. No issues since.

Since I have been off of them for around 3 years and I don't believe I was ever actually diagnosed (possibly being naive?), would it even be worth bringing up? It was such a casually prescription and the NP had no issue at all when I told her I wanted to stop taking them.

Reddit, I read multiple answers so coming to the big brain here.

Question is for US as I know the Canadian and EASA rules.

A PPL-AMEL holder, no other ratings, so no Single engine rating, can they exercise sport pilot privileges under MOSAIC.. aka can they fly a Cessna 172 or Piper Cherokee.

How I read it, the answer is yes, they just couldn't fly single engine aircraft that don't meet MOSAIC rules. But could fly most trainer single engine pistons even though they never tested for them.

Has anyone working at the airlines had a stroke and managed to get a class 1 back?

I had a stroke last year at a youngish age (early 30s) and am wondering if there are any pilots out there who have been through it and got back in the air.

My stroke was provoked by an infection in my heart, thats been fixed via surgery and the ticker is all good to go but having some issues trying to find an AME willing to even talk to me as soon as I mention stroke.

For what it’s worth I have no impairment. I’m trying to get back in the air and it would be really handy to talk to someone who’s been successful in getting a Class 1 bac

I grew up in Civil Air Patrol, started flight training as a teen, but never finished. I’m now in my 40s, living near a great airfield, and I’d really like to finally pursue a pilot certificate.

Before I start, I have two concerns about the FAA medical process:

Old driving incident: About 2.5 years ago, I was pulled over for speeding after driving home from a concert. The officer asked if I’d had anything to drink, and I answered honestly that I’d had two beers earlier that evening.

I was asked to do field sobriety tests and thought I’d be let go, but I was arrested. At the station, I was given a breathalyzer, but the officer never told me my BAC, and it was ever documented in anything I saw. I was initially cited for DUI, but when I went to court about a month later, it was reduced to reckless driving.

My license was never suspended, and the final charge was reckless driving, not DUI.

Past Adderall prescription: I previously had a doctor who prescribed me Adderall for work performance, not because of ADHD. I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD and don’t have ADHD symptoms. I refilled it occasionally but stopped taking it completely more than two years ago.

I’m trying to understand what this means for getting an FAA medical and eventually a private pilot certificate. I’d prefer not to create extra hoops for myself if they can be avoided, but I’m serious about flying and willing to do what’s required.

Would this be something to discuss with a HIMS AME before submitting MedXPress? And for anyone who has dealt with something similar, how much did it affect your timeline or odds of getting cleared?

Hello, as it says I had my medical today and was deferred due to ptsd and taking Prozac the past view years. I am a veteran and I am rated 100% for ptsd(shout out taliban).

With that being. Said I’ve been a career firefighter for the past decade and was hoping to get my ppl and other certs/hours to potentially change careers once i retire from the fire service.

I was open and honest will all my diagnoses from my PCP and the VA.If anyone has gone through this I would appreciate any info, thank you. Just curious if I’ll have any luck.

A while back I requested ATP CTP course recommendations and I decided to write this review on the one I attended. I chose the one by Delta Professional Services in Atlanta but they have another location in Phoenix. The cost was $4,895 which includes a voucher for the ATP exam, voucher for a study app for exam, one paid catered lunch and free a trip to the Delta museum.

Classroom setting was nice included some beverages and snacks, parking was provided in a large lot near the museum (so a bit of walking). The classroom instructor was great throughout the course. The majority of my class got to utilize the new 737-MAX simulators because I guess Delta is still awaiting their delivery of planes before training their pilots in the sims. My sim instructor was great as well but each pair of students got a different instructor so experience may vary. There were little to no expectation for the simulator training and more of a discovery flight with demos. The rest of the staff was friendly and timely in their email correspondence when signing up. We had access to the delta cafeteria during lunch breaks which includes nice gym you can use.

The course material was death by powerpoint for the full scheduled class days of 0900-1700 or 1800. We did review a lot of historical mishaps which was probably the best part because the rest of the material was not new to me. At the end of each classroom day of mandatory powerpoint lessons they gave us another hour or so Delta specific information talking about various topics such as their proprietary flight planning apps, explaining OCC (Operations and Customer Center), projected hiring numbers, how commuting works, etc. Sometimes it felt like a Delta commercial saying come work here.

Some extra places we got to visit during the course week was the Delta Museum and full motion simulators of course, the static cockpit trainers for pilots to train flows and work the FMS, the pool where they do survival training and the replica aircraft interiors for the flight attendants.

Also, if it matters the majority of my class were military or ex-military with 2 civilian pilots. The instructor did cater some of the training discussion to our military experience sometimes saying "I am sure you all have been in this situation or dealt with this scenario" But would catch himself and make sure the civilian guys on the same page.

My recommendation: I took this course specifically since I was able to get funding and have it paid for so the price was not a big deal. I also wanted to see where airline pilots train and utilize their simulators. If you have similar interests and have the budget I do recommend it. They do give you a letter of recommendation for taking the course but I do not know how useful that would be outside of delta hiring. Was told probably not smart to use that LOR with their competitors but maybe using it at a regional might be ok. I did not do this but if you are a pilot in position to be hired soon you could probably do a bit of networking here since you are on their campus.

If you are budget minded and trying to get a check in the box I would probably look elsewhere. You will likely get similar training in other locations.

Tips: They give a list of hotels to stay at during the course. One they did not have on the list was the La Quinta it was cheaper than most of the other options and not that bad. It was super close to training campus and probably similar walking distance from hotel to classroom as the provided parking lot to classroom. Hotel did charge 15$ a day for parking.

During the sim training my partner was an army helo pilot with some multi engine time on a smaller prop aircraft. He had some rough initial landings hard bounce making the whole sim have to reset then another the instructor paused the sim before impact. I recommend utilizing the left seat first with the HUD to get bit more comfortable and feel for the plane. The way I trained we usually had the least experience pilot in the left seat and it was usually the aircraft commander in the right.

If you have a 1st class and are trans but stressing coming out, starting HRT or a student considering how to get your 1st class, don’t despair.

I am reposting this info to keep it current in the search engines and to update anyone who is concerned about their identity and being a commercial or private pilot.

The process to get a 1st class medical is still possible. It is possible for both current 1st class medical holders and new applicants.

There are some official forms, some FAA guidance, lots of nuances and pitfalls to navigate, but there is a path to follow and lot of support to help you. If submitted correctly with all the supporting documents, they have been getting approved even if you have some underlying mental health history along with it.

DM me if you need help.

Hey everyone, I was wondering of any good Neuropsychological Drs out there to take the full battery of tests. Preferably someone who does not want to do collateral interviews with family, friends, and employers. I have nothing to hide at all, but I truly do think it is a bit invasive for that.... I am in Texas but I am willing to travel out of state for the one who does not do that and is willing to actually help you.

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Ben Shapiro went on Sam Harris’ podcast this week and gave the most clarifying interview I have read in a year. Not clarifying about Donald Trump, who has been clarified for some time. Clarifying about Ben Shapiro, and about the specific kind of figure that has been keeping the Republican coalition welded together while it converts itself into something its own apologists will not name.

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHYn7llzy4

Allyship — complying without complaining

Doing the work — agreeing faster

Holding space — sitting quietly while being scolded

Lived experience — an unlikely and unverifiable personal anecdote, but load-bearing

Other ways of knowing — confidently not knowing

Calling in (vs. calling out) — calling someone out while smiling

Safe space — a separated space excluding you (who are the danger)

Centering marginalized voices — the meeting has a new chairman

Unpacking — what academics do instead of getting back to work

Problematize — to discover a problem though none was reported

Equity lens — special glasses that can find racial disparities in a takeout menu

Positionality statement — virtue-signaling before the land acknowledgment

Land acknowledgment — admitting the theft while keeping the land

Cultural humility — humility, but billed hourly at confiscatory rates

Restorative practices — like detention, but more boring and with a confession circle

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It does mean missing out on things like barbeques and team dinners sometimes, but it’s not as if he would have been able to participate anyway. At this point in his life, risking someone not taking his allergies seriously would mean potentially missing games, which makes it unacceptable. Jackie always makes sure he has a dish or two that’s safe when he’s over at their house, but if he was going to be the one guy sitting and drinking ginger ale instead of taking part in sharing nachos or Korean barbeque or burgers or any other delicious thing he goes in knowing he can’t have anyway, there’s no point in making a fuss about it. He eats at home, has a drink with everyone else, and he calls it a day. Easy. Safe. Foolproof.

But also the reason it doesn’t occur to him that he hasn’t actually told Ilya about any of his allergies until it becomes immediately relevant five days into being at his cottage together.

(how ilya learns about shane's food allergies) (and how shane learns what it's like to have someone who always saves him a seat at the table) (and who also makes sure there's food he can eat on the table to start with)

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I’ve seen some very impressive and complex AI workflows for automating content creation.

What I haven’t seen is evidence of them working well, or performing better than the blogs were with human-written content before.

If anyone has examples they could share, I’d love to see them

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