The new book by the author of Dust of Glory. After disrupting the Brazilian cultural canon in Dust of Glory (2015), Martim Vasques da Cunha now dedicates himself to an exercise we could title, à la Kubrick, "How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving Bolsonaro." This hypothetical title would be unfair only because this isn't exclusively about the Bolsonaro case, because there aren't even any sarcastic loves, and because concerns remain entirely justified. However, it's undeniable that the success of Trump, Farage, and Bolsonaro has hegemonized catastrophism in public debate, and that this phenomenon bothers Ivory Coast, who attributes it to an impotence of the liberal imagination. Because intellectuals, who remain calm, foreseeing only threats they understand, sometimes find themselves dethroned by the people, just as a lucid stevedore might decide to replace an inept helmsman. The uprising of recent years has had abstract ideas and the tyranny of experts as its philosophical targets, but it has also challenged political quietism, technocratic illusion, and the "politics of skepticism." And so a "politics of faith" has been resurrected, albeit in a chaotic and plebeian form. It is therefore crucial to investigate and question the theses of "reactionary" ideologues, without diminishing the grave responsibilities of left-wing elites. In short, dense, and ingenious essays, which as readily discuss Musil's stupidity as O.J. Simpson's victimization, *The Tyranny of Experts* reminds us that this is all connected. That we must keep a cool head. And that no tweet will ever abolish political philosophy.
