Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira

Web & Print

Past & Present Blog

• “How I Came to Write ‘Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic,” 4 February 2022.

The Royal Society Blog

• “Featured Interview,” 1 September 2020.

The Washington Post

• “The Aeronauts’ tries to fictionalize history and makes a big blunder,” 20 December 2019.

Slate

• “How 19th-Century Parisians Under Siege Improvised a System of Airmail by Balloon,” 9 December 2015.

Jacobin

• “The Paranoid Style in Brazilian Politics,” 7 January 2015.

CartaCapital

• “A preservação da ‘zona cinzenta’” [Paris and the Preservation of the "Grey Zone"], 19 November 2015.

• “O Uber e o mito da panaceia tecnológica” [Uber and the Myth of the Technological Panacea], 19 July 2015.

Observatório da Imprensa

• “O estilo paranoico na política brasileira” [The Paranoid Style in Brazilian Politics — extended adaptation of the article in Jacobin], 19 May 2015.

Audio

Radio 1871

• “Balloons (with special guest Dr. Patrick De Oliveira),” 18 March 2021.

Viracasacas

• “A Negação da História – com Patrick de Oliveira” [“The Negation of History”], 21 May 2019.

The Monocle Daily

• Interview about “The Paranoid Style in Brazilian Politics,” 17 August 2015.

NPR

• “Taking The Great American Road Trip, Google-Style” (Produced for Weekend Edition), 16 August, 2009.

• “‘Wrestling With Moses': How We Saw Our Cities Anew” (Produced for Weekend Edition), 9 August 2009.