@acostapinto.bsky.social
Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
"The single biggest influence on The Sympathizer was António Lobo Antunes’ The Land at the End of the World" says Viet Thanh Nguyen. I was not aware of this influence because The Sympathizer is one of the best novels I've read in the last couple of years.
07.03.2026 10:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83".
07.03.2026 10:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The North American base in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, has regained its strategic importance, being used in the current operation to attack Iran.The Portuguese government accepted this, even though it was within the limits of the agreement.
05.03.2026 09:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes died today. He was by far the best contemporary portraitist of Portuguese society, its imperial past and decolonization, its dictatorship and democratization.
05.03.2026 09:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Conference on the "politics of the past" of the Portuguese populist radical right at the Convegno "Dopo le Dittature", University of Bologna in Buenos Aires, citing the late Leonardo Morlino and a book I've co-edited with him.
20.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This week in Argentina for this conference at the Campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.
16.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0El cordón sanitario en las presidenciales no frena el auge de Chega, más fuerte que nunca en Portugal www.infolibre.es/1_20ba0c
14.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Um amigo e grande ciêntísta político brasileiro da Universidade de S. Paulo.
14.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0O rescaldo da vitória sem espinhas do Portugal moderado visto por António Costa Pinto.
10.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0An interview on the rise of the populist radical right in Portugal.
03.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Free access in the next two weeks! The five Ages of Antifascism, from Joseph Fronczak, Princeton University. A new book from the Series "The politics and history of fascism", Cambridge University Press. Series editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.
03.02.2026 09:05 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0According to António Costa Pinto, “In the unlikely scenario that Ventura secured the presidency, there is little doubt that he would use it to do everything to give his party control of the government … and pose a serious threat to the institutional functioning of Portuguese democracy,”.
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