Tom Hennigan
Articles by Tom Hennigan
2022
2021
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Politics
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
It was once possible to regard the judge Sergio Moro as a zealous, perhaps overzealous, prosecutor of corruption.
2020
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World Literature
My Life and Triumphs
‘I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write,’ the narrator tells us at the…
2019
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World History
History from Hell
The popular cultures of many European societies remain transfixed by the evil of Nazism while looking away from the record of their own ancestors. Yet…
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World Politics
Struggling towards Citizenship
For all Brazil’s great size and demographic weight, and the economic and social progress marked up since the return of democracy in the 1980s, the…
2018
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World History
Greed and Good
That Mario Vargas Llosa should champion liberal principles is scarcely surprising, given the damage wrought by rival doctrines in South America. His new study might…
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World History
Fortune’s Fools
Romans thought the bounty the goddess Fortuna had provided would last forever, that their empire was the natural culmination of human civilisation. But their world,…
2017
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World Politics
Republic of Lies
Brazil’s Workers Party is smarting after losing its president through impeachment, accusing its enemies of mounting a coup. It would be better off engaging in…
2016
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Irish Art / Culture
The Analyst as Eeyore
Fintan O’Toole’s narrow focus allows him to portray Irish public life as suffering a grave malaise, a condition one could almost say was unique to…
2015
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World Politics
Slaying the Octopus
Brazilians have decided that the Workers Party’s efforts to improve the lives of tens of millions of the poor trump the fact that after twelve…
2014
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World Art / Culture
The Modernist Moment
Brazil, in the mid-twentieth century, saw a spectacular flourishing of architecture and town planning, associated with names like Niemeyer and Costa. But since then chaos…
2013
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World Politics
Beyond Belief
Gabriel García Márquez emerged explosively as a new international name in the 1960s with a novel stuffed with the baroque and the fantastic, which sought…
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Power and the People
A new book on the Latin American left asks profound questions about the quality of societies being constructed and comes up with a fascinating portrait…
2012
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World Literature
Island Sickness
Long divided, Argentines finally found national unity under the leadership of the continent’s most murderous regime and its campaign to retake the Malvinas.
2011
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Losing It
Yet one measure of just how disorientating the global financial crisis has been for the world’s bien pensant elite is that Argentina’s economic history no…
2010
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One Of Our Own
Previously Morales insisted that coca was a legitimate crop, a gift from Pachamama, Mother Earth, and that cocaine was a problem for the Americans. “We…
2009
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Empress of Asunción
In March 1870 Solano López was finally hunted down in the Paraguayan wilderness of Cerro Corá and killed by a Brazilian soldier. Panchito died with…
Blog Posts by Tom Hennigan
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Living with Big Brother
April 7, 2022