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Nick Burns

Nick Burns is a writer and editor at Americas Quarterly.
Articles by Nick Burns

America’s Medieval Universities

The tensions introduced by the prominence of a still partially medieval institution in modern society can only be resolved in two possible ways: the creation of institutions of education and knowledge production on a more modern model; or a partial neo-feudalization of the modalities, if not the class structure, of modern society, a process already underway…

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The New Brazilian Right

Ten years ago, Brazil was a left-wing success story. The Workers’ Party’s generous cash-transfer programs for poor families, bank­rolled by buoyant commodity prices and constructed on a preexisting foundation of fiscal discipline, helped to lift millions out of pov­erty. Constitutional order was maintained. The economy grew, and arrangements were reached between the reigning patronage party…

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