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Olavo de Carvalho
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	Carvalho in 2019
Born	Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho; 29 April 1947; Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Died	24 January 2022 (aged 74); Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Author, teacher, former astrologer, former journalist
Spouse	Roxane Andrade de Souza (m. 1986⁠–⁠2022)
Children	8

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Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho^[a] GCRB (29 April 1947 – 24 January 2022)^[2]^[3]^[4] was a Brazilian polemicist, self-proclaimed philosopher,^[5]^[6] political pundit, former astrologer, journalist, and far-right conspiracy theorist.^[7]^[8] From 2005 until his death, he lived near Richmond, Virginia, in the United States.^[9]^[10]^[11]

While publishing about politics, literature and philosophy since the 1980s, he made himself known to wider Brazilian audiences from the 1990s onwards, mainly writing columns for some of Brazil's major media outlets, such as the newspaper O Globo. In the 2000s, he began to use personal blogs and social media to convey his conservative and anti-communist ideas.^[12]^[13]^[14] In the late 2010s, he rose to prominence in the Brazilian public debate, being dubbed the "intellectual father of the new right"^[15] and the ideologue of Jair Bolsonaro,^[16] a label which he rejected.^[17]

As a polemicist, Carvalho was criticized for often resorting to obscene ad hominem attacks.^[18] His books and articles have spread conspiracy theories and false information,^[19]^[20]^[21] and he has been accused of fomenting hate speech^[22] and anti-intellectualism.^[23] He positioned himself as a critic of modernity. His interests included historical philosophy, the history of revolutionary movements, the Traditionalist School^[24]^[1] and comparative religion.^[25] His views were rejected by some philosophers.^[26]^[27]^[28]

Life

Personal life

According to his daughter, Carvalho had been a member of a Tariqa, an order of Sufism, but that was never verified.^[29]

His eldest daughter, Heloisa de Carvalho Martins Arriba, accused her father of occasional maltreatment of his children. All content was wrapped in a letter that was later shared on Facebook. According to the letter, Olavo had even pointed a gun to the head of one of his children. She made other accusations including that Olavo kept a polygamous relationship living with three wives at the same time.^[30] The accusations were denied by her siblings and by Olavo himself, who initiated a lawsuit against her citing that in her letter she "distances herself from any contact with reality by spreading outrageous lies and vile insults".^[31]

Professional career

Carvalho acted as an astrologer in the 1980s,^[32] having learned it from, among others, the Argentine psychologist Juan Alfredo César Müller.^[33] From the 1970s to the 2000s, he wrote for several Brazilian magazines and newspapers, such as Bravo!, Primeira Leitura, Claudia, O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo (starting in February 1977 with an article about The Magic Flute in the "Folhetim" literary supplement^[34]), Época and Zero Hora.^[35]

In 2002, Carvalho founded the website Maskless Media (Mídia Sem Máscara). It presents itself as an observatory of the news media.^[36] He was the host of the show True Outspeak on BlogTalkRadio, which aired from 2006 to 2013.^[37] As of 2019, he wrote a weekly column for the Brazilian newspaper Diário do Comércio and taught philosophy in an online course to over 2,000 students.^[15] He is said to have introduced to Portuguese-speaking readers works of important conservative philosophers of the 20th century, such as Eric Voegelin.^[38]^[39] In addition to newspaper articles and many blog and social media posts, he authored a number of books, many of them collections of previously published texts. A list of his books published by one of his students in 2018 included 32 books.^[40]

Carvalho founded the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought in 2009, and served as its president.^[41] He collaborated with Ted Baehr, Paul Gottfried, Judith Reisman,^[42]^[43] Alejandro Peña Esclusa, and Stephen Baskerville through the Inter-American Institute.^[44] The institute closed down in 2018, possibly due to complaints made by Olavo's former students to the Institute's board that, among other complaints, he never concluded the secondary education, and was not, as his profile in the Institute claimed, a former senior lecturer in the Catholic University of Paraná.^[45]

In 2011, Olavo had a written debate, in English, with Aleksandr Dugin, on the topic of "The USA and the New World Order". The debate was published on-line in a Blogspot website,^[46] and was later translated to Portuguese for publishing in Brazil.^[47] The debate was partially summarized in chapter 14 of the 2020 book War for Eternity, by Benjamin Teitelbaum.^[1]

Role in the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro

Carvalho became one of the most influential individuals in the administration of Jair Bolsonaro.^[48]^[49] According to one account, Bolsonaro got interested in Carvalho's ideas in 2013.^[50] In 2014, Bolsonaro and Carvalho started transmitting their live video chats through politically conservative YouTube channels.^[51]^[52]^[53] In 2017, Carvalho was depicted as the "ideologue" of Bolsonaro,^[16]^[54] a title he has refuted.^[17]

In his first live speech on Facebook after being elected, Bolsonaro was pictured next to one of the books written by Carvalho, in what was interpreted as a sign of his influence over the newly elected president.^[55] It was claimed^{[by whom?]} that Carvalho influenced the nomination of two prominent Ministers by Bolsonaro: Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez (Education) and Ernesto Araújo (Foreign Affairs).^[56]^[57]

In November 2018, after the Brazilian presidential election, Carvalho declared that, if nominated by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, he would accept the role of Brazilian ambassador to the United States. However, in February 2019, Carvalho clashed with some key figures of the Bolsonaro administration, including the Vice-President, Hamilton Mourão, whom he accused of being a "traitor" and an "idiot" who is "pro-abortion, pro-disarmament and pro-Nicolás Maduro".^[58] Mourão dismissed the criticisms.^[59]

Death

Olavo's family announced his death on social media, on January 24, 2022, eight days after he tested positive for COVID-19.^[4] His family's statement did not specify his cause of death, but his daughter Heloísa said that it was from coronavirus.^[11]^[3] His personal doctor denied it was COVID-19 and stated officially that his death was caused by respiratory stress associated with emphysema, heart failure, bacterial pneumonia, and a generalised infection.^[60] Olavo was known for his vaccine hesitancy and often questioned the severity of COVID-19 pandemic, spreading COVID-19 misinformation on his social media.^[61] According to his family, he died at a hospital outside of Richmond, Virginia.^[62] He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia.^[63]

At his death Olavo de Carvalho left his widow, eight children, and eighteen grandchildren.^[4]

Olavo de Carvalho reportedly confessed his sins to a Roman Catholic priest and received the last rites before his death.^[64]

Philosophical views

Definition of philosophy

Olavo de Carvalho defined philosophy as "the search for the unity of knowledge in the unity of consciousness and vice-versa". He repeated this definition in various places, namely: in a 2020 interview with Fabíola Cidral,^[65] in the introduction to his book about Descartes,^[66] in part III of the essay "A filosofia e seu inverso" ("Philosophy and Its Inverse"), published in the book of the same name,^[67] and in his video course about Mário Ferreira dos Santos, titled "Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guia para o estudo de sua obra" ("Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guide for the Study of His Work"), and published as a transcript in the book of the same name.^[68] According to Ronald Robson, this definition implies that the work of philosophy can never be finished.^[69]

"Four discourses" in Aristotle

Olavo de Carvalho believed that, according to Aristotle, "human discourse is a single power, which actualizes itself in four different ways: poetics, rhetoric, dialectic, and analytic (logic)".^[70]^[71] This would be in contrast to views which would see poetics and rhetoric as sharply divided from analytical logic, and by extension, "Letters" from "the Sciences".^[70] Besides defending this as an interpretation of Aristotle, he also defended it as a philosophical view in its own right, which he thought could be of use for "our current search for an interdisciplinary knowledge". His writings about this view were collected in his book "Aristóteles em nova perspectiva: Introdução à teoria dos quatro discursos" ("Aristotle in a New Perspective: Introduction to the Theory of the Four Discourses").^[72]^[73]

Cognitive parallax

Olavo de Carvalho, taking inspiration from "the symbol of old cameras", coined the term "cognitive parallax" to "designate the structural displacement between the axis of a thinker's actual experience and the axis of their theoretical construction".^[66] He mentioned this term in section 5 of his book about Machiavelli, claiming that Machiavelli was an example of cognitive parallax because "he taught the Prince to rise to power with the help of allies and then kill them, whereas obviously, he himself, as the author of the plan and therefore one of the Prince's greatest allies, would have been among the first to die if the plan were put into action."^[74] Olavo also mentioned the term "cognitive parallax" in section XIV of his book about Descartes, claiming that Descartes's interpretation of his "Olympian dreams"^[75] was an example.^[66] The term is not to be confused with the psychological term "cognitive dissonance".

In a 2008 interview, Olavo gave two other examples:

I call [cognitive parallax] the sometimes radical displacement between the axis of a thinker's theoretical construction and the axis of their real human experience, as they themselves report it or as we know it from other reliable sources. Rare and exceptional in antiquity and the Middle Ages, this displacement begins to appear with increasingly notable frequency from the 16th century onwards, giving some modern philosophies the comical appearance of somnambulistic gesticulations completely oblivious to the real environment in which they develop. A clear example is Kant's theory of the unknowability of the "thing-in-itself". If we do not know the substance of material things, but only their phenomenal appearance, what hope can we have of someday grasping, from material evidence, that is, letters printed on a sheet of paper, the substance of Immanuel Kant's philosophy? Certainly, the philosopher from Königsberg would not be satisfied if we apprehended only the phenomenal appearance of his philosophy, which, in that sense, is radically incompatible with the act of writing books—and mind you, Kant wrote them abundantly. As coherent as it may be within itself, Kant's philosophy is incoherent with his own existence as a published work. Another example: Karl Marx says that only the proletariat can grasp the real movement of history because the classes that precede it are trapped in the subjective fantasy of their respective class ideologies. But if that's the case, why was Marx himself the first to perceive this and grasp the allegedly real movement of history, when he was not a proletarian, had no experience of proletarian life, and only knew proletarians through readings until his mature age? Either class ideology is inherent to the subject's real social position, or it is a free choice independent of social position, but in the latter case, it is not class ideology at all, but merely personal ideology projected ex post facto onto a class, also by free choice. There are so many examples of this kind that I never expect to be able to list more than a tiny fraction of them. Inevitably, the structural similarity between cognitive parallax and the inversion of time had to become clear one day, no matter how slow my mind may be.^[76]

According to a text by Ronald Robson, Olavo is supposed to have gone into more depth on cognitive parallax in a lecture titled "Introdução à paralaxe cognitiva" ("Introduction to cognitive parallax"),^[77] which, however, has not been published.

Controversial and misinformed views

Disagreement with famous scientists and mathematicians

Carvalho propagated misinformation about prominent ideas and figures of modern science.^[78]^[79] He contested ideas of physicists Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and mathematician Georg Cantor.

Views on Newton

In an essay titled "Nas origens da burrice ocidental" ("At the origins of Western stupidity"), Olavo claimed that Newton introduced a self-contradictory thesis into the Western mind, which was responsible for spreading a virus of "formidable stupidity". The thesis in question referred to "eternal motion" and the law of inertia:

Ancient physics stated that a body, if not moved by another, tends to remain at rest. Newton contested this, asserting that the force of its own inertia perpetually maintains each body in its present state, whether at rest or in uniform rectilinear motion. There is only one problem: if motion is eternal, it makes no sense to speak of a "present state" except in reference to a living observer endowed with a sense of temporality. In eternal motion, everything is flow and impermanence. There are no "states"—whether of rest or motion. "State" is merely a subjective impression that the observer, who is himself involved in the general motion, obtains by measuring physical movements with his inner time. The attempt to construct a purely mathematical universe independent of human perception ended up making everything dependent on human perception itself. Materialistic physics was founded on idealistic metaphysics.^[80]

Olavo went on to claim that the idea of eternal motion, besides contradicting the law of inertia, also contradicted itself. This essay was reproduced in his book about Descartes as an appendix.^[66]

Views on Giordano Bruno and Galileo

Olavo strongly criticized Giordano Bruno, who according to him "did not make any discoveries... He did not even study modern sciences, physics, astronomy, biology or mathematics, he was not condemned for defending scientific theories, but for practicing witchcraft, which at the time was a crime".^[81]

Olavo also criticized Galileo, of whom he wrote:

A background of charlatanism appears to have already been introduced into physics by Galileo, when he proclaimed that he had overturned the notions of ancient science, according to which an object not propelled by an external force stands still—an illusion of the senses, he said. In fact, he pontificated, an object in such conditions remains stationary or in uniform and rectilinear motion. But, after having thus overthrown the old physics, he discreetly clarified that rectilinear and uniform movement does not really exist, but is a fiction conceived by the mind to facilitate measurements. Now if the object not moved from without stands still or has a fictitious movement, it means, strictly speaking, that it stands still in every case, just as ancient physics said, and that Galileo, by means of a new system of measurements, could only explain why it stands still. That is to say, Galileo did not dispute ancient physics, he merely invented a better way of proving that it was correct, and that the testimony of the senses, being true enough, does not have in itself proof of its veracity, which was well known since the time of Aristotle. It was this episode that inaugurated the craze of modern scientists to take simple changes of methods as if they were "proofs" of a new constitution of reality.^[81]

Views on Einstein

Olavo claimed, in lecture 16 of his Online Philosophy Course, that Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity was plagiarized from earlier theorists such as Poincaré and Lorentz.^[82]^[83] Olavo believed this claim on the basis of Christopher Jon Bjerknes's book Albert Einstein: the incorrigible plagiarist, which does defend it.^[84]

Views on Cantor

Olavo contradicted Georg Cantor's work on transfinite numbers, accusing him of confusing "numbers with their mere signs", seeing his work as a "play with words" and a "false logic".^[81]

General views on astronomy, physics, and evolution

Olavo claimed that there are no proofs of heliocentrism,^[85] and that geocentrism was as valid as heliocentrism, "since you can use different points of reference".^[86]

In 2018, on Facebook, he stated that he had no "definitive answer" to the questions of "Evolutionism vs. fixed species", "heliocentrism vs. geocentrism", "spherical Earth vs. flat Earth", and "Einstein vs. Tesla".^[87]

Misinformed views on contemporary science and consumer products

Fetuses as Pepsi sweetener hoax

Carvalho also spread the hoax of Pepsi using cells from aborted fetuses to sweeten soft drinks.^[88]^[89]

Views on climate change

Carvalho claimed that global warming is a hoax produced by a global conspiracy. He based his claims on the Climategate episode in which hackers, on the eve of the Copenhagen Conference, disseminated thousands of e-mails from University of East Anglia climatologists in order to undermine the credibility of the conference. Carvalho claimed Climategate to be the work of a conspiracy led by the Rockefeller family, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Club, and the New World Order, indicating them also as leaders of the "global abortion and gay ... campaigns of the new bionic global religion, and of the Obama administration's proposal for universal control of the movement of capital".^[90]

Views on human health

In a 2016 Twitter post, Carvalho claimed that "vaccines either kill you or drive you crazy. Never vaccinate your children."^[91]

He falsely declared that AIDS does not pose a risk to heterosexuals, basing his arguments on journalist Michael Fumento's book The Myth of Heterosexual Aids.^[92]^[90]

On March 22, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, he stated in a livestream on YouTube that there was no confirmed case of death from the virus in the world and that the pandemic would be "an invention" and "the most extensive manipulation of public opinion that has ever happened in human history".^[93]^[94] At that date, according to the World Health Organization, there were more than 294,000 cases of the disease and 12,784 deaths from it.^[95]

Misinformed views on politics and history

Views on Brazilian politics

Olavo claimed that the Foro de São Paulo "is the largest political organization that has ever existed in Latin America and undoubtedly one of the largest in the world".^[96]

Olavo also shared the false information that a book written by Fernando Haddad, the opponent of Jair Bolsonaro during the 2018 Brazilian general election, promoted incest.^[97]

On March 17, 2019, Carvalho criticised the presence of military personnel in Bolsonaro's administration, stating: "He didn't choose two hundred generals. Two hundred generals chose him. Those people want to restore the 1964 regime under a democratic aspect. They're ruling and using Bolsonaro as a condom. I'm not saying that it is the reality, but it is what they want. Mourão said that they would return to power democratically. If it is not a coup, it is a coup mentality."^[98]

Views on American politics

Views on birtherism

Olavo de Carvalho believed that Barack Obama's documents,^[99] such as his birth certificate, social security card, and military enlistment,^[100] were not genuine. In particular, he believed Christopher Monckton's testimony about Obama's birth certificate.^[101] While this view is typically associated with the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Olavo refrained from questioning his birthplace, claiming in a 2012 column that "birthers" had "diluted" their "attack power" by focusing on claims about Obama's birthplace rather than Obama's documents.^[100] However, he later shared a forged picture on social media that purportedly showed a "foreign student" card from Columbia University with Barack Obama's name on it, thereby contributing to the spread of birtherism.^[102]

Other views on American politics

In a January 2021 interview, Carvalho falsely claimed that election fraud took place in the 2020 American presidential election, stating "Everything in this election has been fraudulent." During the same interview Carvalho falsely asserted that Joe Biden had Parkinson's disease and that Biden and Kamala Harris were working for the Chinese government.^[103]

Views on European history

Carvalho advocated a revisionist view of the Inquisition, claiming it is a myth spread by Protestants.^[104]^[105]

Actions by third parties to mitigate Olavo's influence

In 2020, Sleeping Giants started a campaign to reduce his influence on Brazilian politics and convinced advertisers to remove their media buying from his online newspaper and YouTube channel.^[106] This led to PayPal deciding to cancel their contract with Olavo, and remove their services from his online seminars, citing violation of terms of use.^[106]

Also in 2020, Carvalho was ordered to pay 2.8 million Brazilian reais in libel charges after accusing musician Caetano Veloso of sexual crimes against children.^[107]^[108]

Works

Essays

(1980). A Imagem do Homem na Astrologia. São Paulo: Jvpiter.
(1983). O Crime da Madre Agnes ou A Confusão entre Espiritualidade e Psiquismo. São Paulo: Speculum.
(1983). Questões de Simbolismo Astrológico. São Paulo: Speculum.
(1983). Universalidade e Abstração e outros Estudos. São Paulo: Speculum.
(1985). Astros e Símbolos. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1986). Astrologia e Religião. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1986). Fronteiras da Tradição. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1992). Símbolos e Mitos no Filme "O Silêncio dos Inocentes". Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
(1993). Os Gêneros Literários: Seus Fundamentos Metafísicos. Rio de Janeiro: IAL & Stella Caymmi.
(1993). O Caráter como Forma Pura da Personalidade. Rio de Janeiro: Astroscientia Editora.
(1994). A Nova Era e a Revolução Cultural : Fritjof Capra & Antonio Gramsci. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais & Stella Caymmi [São Paulo: Vide Editorial, 2014].^[109]
(1994). Uma Filosofia Aristotélica da Cultura. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
- Aristóteles em Nova Perspectiva: Introdução à Teoria dos Quatro Discursos. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 1996 [São Paulo: É Realizações, 2007; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2013].^[110]
(1995). O Jardim das Aflições : De Epicuro à Ressurreição de César, Ensaio sobre o Materialismo e a Religião Civil. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim [São Paulo: É Realizações, 2000; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2015].^[81]
(1994). O Imbecil Coletivo : Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade [São Paulo: É Realizações, 2007; Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2018^[111]].^[112]
(1997). O Futuro do Pensamento Brasileiro: Estudos sobre o Nosso Lugar no Mundo. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora [É Realizações, 2007].
(1998). A Longa Marcha da Vaca Para o Brejo & Os Filhos da PUC : O Imbecil Coletivo II. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks [São Paulo: É Realizações, 2008; São Paulo: Record (forthcoming)^[111]].
(2002–2006). Coleção História Essencial da Filosofia, 32 vol. São Paulo: É Realizações.
(2007). A Dialética Simbólica : Ensaios Reunidos. São Paulo: É Realizações [Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2015].
(2011). Maquiavel, ou A Confusão Demoníaca. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2012). A Filosofia e seu Inverso. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2012). Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial: Um Debate entre Olavo de Carvalho e Aleksandr Dugin. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial. 2012. (with Aleksandr Dugin).^[113]
(2013). O Mínimo que Você Precisa Saber para não Ser um Idiota. Edited by Felipe Moura Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Record.^[114]^[115]^[116]
(2013). Apoteose da vigarice. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2013). Visões de Descartes : entre o gênio mau e o espírito da verdade. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2014). O mundo como jamais funcionou : Cartas de um terráqueo ao planeta Brasil - Volume II. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2014). A Fórmula para Enlouquecer o Mundo: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 3. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2015). A Inversão Revolucionária em Ação: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 4. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2016). O Império Mundial da Burla: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 5. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2016). O Dever de Insultar: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 6. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2017). Breve Retrato do Brasil: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 7. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2022). O Imbecil Coletivo III: O Imbecil Juvenil. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial.
(2022). O Foro de São Paulo: A ascensão do comunismo latino-americano. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial.

Other publications

(1973). Tabu, by Alan Watts. São Paulo: Editora Três (translation and preface, with Fernando de Castro Ferreira).
(1981). A Metafísica Oriental, by René Guénon. São Paulo: Escola Júpiter (translation).
(1984). Comentários à “Metafísica Oriental” de René Guénon, by Michel Veber. São Paulo: Speculum (introduction and notes).
(1997). Como Vencer um debate sem precisar ter Razão : em 38 estratagemas : dialética erística. by Arthur Schopenhauer. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction, notes and explanatory comments).
(1997). O Espírito das Revoluções, by J.O. de Meira Penna. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora (preface).
(1998). O Exército na História do Brasil, 3 Vol. Rio de Janeiro/Salvador: Biblioteca do Exército & Fundação Odebrecht (editor).
(1998). Teatro Oficina: Onde a Arte não Dormia, by Ítala Nandi. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora (preface).
(1999). Ensaios Reunidos, 1942–1978, by Otto Maria Carpeaux. Rio de Janeiro: UniverCidade & Topbooks (introduction and notes).
(1999). A Sociedade de confiança: ensaios sobre as origens e a natureza do desenvolvimento. by Alain Peyrefitte. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction).
(1999). Aristóteles, by Émile Boutroux. Rio de Janeiro: Record (introduction and notes).
(2001). As Seis Doenças do Espírito Contemporâneo, by Constantin Noica. Rio de Janeiro: Record (introduction and notes).
(2001). Admirável Mundo Novo, by Aldous Huxley. São Paulo: Editora Globo (preface).
(2001). A Ilha, by Aldous Huxley. São Paulo: Editora Globo (preface).
(2001). A Coerência das Incertezas, by Paulo Mercadante. São Paulo: É Realizações (introduction and notes).
(2001). A Sabedoria das Leis Eternas, by Mário Ferreira dos Santos. São Paulo: É Realizações (introduction and notes).
(2002). A Origem da Linguagem, by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record (edition and notes, with Carlos Nougué).
(2004). Escolha e Sobrevivência, by Ângelo Monteiro. São Paulo: É Realizações (preface).
(2008). O Eixo do Mal Latino-americano e a Nova Ordem Mundial, by Heitor de Paola. São Paulo: É Realizações (preface).
(2011). O Enigma Quântico, by Wolfgang Smith. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
(2014). Ponerologia: Psicopatas no Poder, by Andrzej Łobaczewski. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
(2015). A Tomada do Brasil, by Percival Puggina. Porto Alegre: Editora Concreta (preface).
(2015). Cabo Anselmo: Minha Verdade, by José Anselmo dos Santos. São Paulo: Matrix (preface).
(2017). 1964: O Elo Perdido; O Brasil nos Arquivos do Serviço Secreto Comunista, by Mauro "Abranches" Kraenski and Vladimir Petrilák. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
(2019). A Vida Intelectual, by A.-D. Sertillanges. São Paulo: Kírion (preface).
(2019). Traição Americana: O Ataque Secreto aos Estados Unidos, by Diana West. São Paulo: Sophia Perennis (preface)

Works in English

(2000). "Otto Maria Carpeaux." Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies. Special Issue, No. 4. João Cezarde Castro Rocha (org.), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
(2005). "From Poetics to Logic: Exploring Some Neglected Aspects of Aristotle's Organon," in Handbook of the First World Congress and School on Universal Logic, UNILOG'05, ed. Jean-Yves Beziau and Alexandre Costa-Leite. pp. 57–59.

Translated works

(2016). Statele Unite și Noua Ordine Mondială: O Dezbatere între Olavo de Carvalho și Aleksandr Dughin. Translated by Simina Popa and Cristina Nițu. Bucharest: Editura Humanitas. Translation of Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial (with Alexander Dugin).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. (21 April 2020). "20-Deep States". War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-297847-9. I was beginning to understand why a reader of Guénon would become a champion of Bolsonaro. Olavo's focus on Traditionalism's opposition to modern science, though seemingly an apolitical subject, may have been more relevant to his analysis of political and social life than I first thought. In writing and in conversation he waxes seamlessly from disagreement with the scientific process to dismissal of modern knowledge to criticism of the institutions whose authority rests obliquely on modernist knowledge. It is in that final step when Traditionalism and populism can come together, when we can draw a line between astrology, alchemy, and the president. Not only are Brazil's media, education system, and government corrupted by money and self-interests in his mind, but they are purveyors of ignorance, too, because of their blind investment in modern science and its inability to account for, let alone value, spirituality. The only immateriality they will admit is the abstractions of mathematics, which themselves serve to confuse as well, Olavo contends. Like Bannon, Olavo finds a trace of solace among the poor and uneducated, those most distanced from institutionalized education and knowledge production. In Brazil as in the United States, they are the keepers of spirit, those who have achieved a measure of community and context otherwise elusive in modernity. They are neither mathematical abstractions nor the bearers of hollow titles granted by hollow modern institutions. They are reality. They are the core.
^ Nicas, Jack (26 January 2022). "Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro's Far-Right Guru, Dies at 74". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Filha de Olavo de Carvalho comenta morte do pai: 'Deus perdoe as maldades'" [Olavo de Carvalho's daughter comments on her father's death: 'May God forgive his evil deeds']. Estado de Minas (in Portuguese). 25 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Perfil oficial de Olavo de Carvalho anuncia seu falecimento". Noticias.uol.com.br. 25 January 2022.
^ Dantas, Dimitrius (10 February 2019). "Olavo de Carvalho está errado e não entendeu Kant, dizem três nomes de destaque da academia brasileira". O Globo (in Portuguese). Olavo é um anti-iluminista. Uma das características da modernidade é que, de fato, você tem a perda da centralidade da Igreja como fonte do que é a verdade. É lógico que temos que tomar muito cuidado ao analisar um texto do século 18, mas se a gente pensa numa atualização do que diz Kant, podemos explorar várias questões. O texto de Kant nasce no século 18 a partir de um debate sobre o casamento civil. Poderíamos interpretá-lo para analisar a questão hoje do casamento homoafetivo. Nesse sentido, o pensamento de Kant é visto como algo perigoso pelos conservadores.
^ Peres, Daniel Tourinho (2 December 2019). "Quão obscurantista é o emplasto filosófico de Olavo de Carvalho?" (in Portuguese). Le Monde Diplomatique. Mais interessante do que saber, porém, se a interpretação A ou B é a correta, é saber por que esta questão ocupa tanto espaço. Não que Olavo de Carvalho ofereça um interpretação. Não. O que ele fornece é uma simples e pura falsificação, afirmações absurdas sobre o filósofo que não encontram nenhuma sustentação. Nenhuma, zero. Mas ele oferece isso a pessoas que querem saber, ou seja, milhares de jovens que chegaram até ele e que foram por ele acolhidos. Olavo de Carvalho existe porque existe uma demanda legítima, da parte dos jovens, por orientação, por uma explicação sobre o que está acontecendo. Se ele faz isso, e se atinge o público enorme que atinge, é porque há procura e ele acabou ocupando esse espaço. Nós, que trabalhamos seriamente com filosofia, precisamos reconhecer: deixamos o espaço aberto para que uma figura sem qualquer escrúpulo ou honestidade o ocupasse.
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Notes

^ According to the rules for names in Portuguese, the maternal family name comes first followed by the paternal one. Much like Elon Musk and Kanye West, Olavo de Carvalho is often referred to by his first name rather than his last.

External links

Quotations related to Olavo de Carvalho at Wikiquote
Media related to Olavo de Carvalho at Wikimedia Commons
Official website (in Portuguese)
Olavo de Carvalho's articles Archived 26 February 2022 at the Wayback Machine, at Diário do Comércio (in Portuguese)
The United States and the New World Order, the official website of Olavo de Carvalho's written debate, in English, with Aleksandr Dugin. Although it is a Blogspot website, it is confirmed to be official by a published translation into Portuguese. (Olavo de Carvalho, "Os EUA E A Nova Ordem Mundial", 1 ed. Campinas: Vide Editorial, 2012. ISBN 978-85-67394-08-4.) It is also cited by War for Eternity, by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, which covers it.

[Teitel-1] Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. (21 April 2020). "20-Deep States". War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-297847-9. I was beginning to understand why a reader of Guénon would become a champion of Bolsonaro. Olavo's focus on Traditionalism's opposition to modern science, though seemingly an apolitical subject, may have been more relevant to his analysis of political and social life than I first thought. In writing and in conversation he waxes seamlessly from disagreement with the scientific process to dismissal of modern knowledge to criticism of the institutions whose authority rests obliquely on modernist knowledge. It is in that final step when Traditionalism and populism can come together, when we can draw a line between astrology, alchemy, and the president. Not only are Brazil's media, education system, and government corrupted by money and self-interests in his mind, but they are purveyors of ignorance, too, because of their blind investment in modern science and its inability to account for, let alone value, spirituality. The only immateriality they will admit is the abstractions of mathematics, which themselves serve to confuse as well, Olavo contends. Like Bannon, Olavo finds a trace of solace among the poor and uneducated, those most distanced from institutionalized education and knowledge production. In Brazil as in the United States, they are the keepers of spirit, those who have achieved a measure of community and context otherwise elusive in modernity. They are neither mathematical abstractions nor the bearers of hollow titles granted by hollow modern institutions. They are reality. They are the core.

[3] Nicas, Jack (26 January 2022). "Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro's Far-Right Guru, Dies at 74". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 26 January 2022.

[minas-4] "Filha de Olavo de Carvalho comenta morte do pai: 'Deus perdoe as maldades'" [Olavo de Carvalho's daughter comments on her father's death: 'May God forgive his evil deeds']. Estado de Minas (in Portuguese). 25 January 2022.

[perfil-5] "Perfil oficial de Olavo de Carvalho anuncia seu falecimento". Noticias.uol.com.br. 25 January 2022.

[6] Dantas, Dimitrius (10 February 2019). "Olavo de Carvalho está errado e não entendeu Kant, dizem três nomes de destaque da academia brasileira". O Globo (in Portuguese). Olavo é um anti-iluminista. Uma das características da modernidade é que, de fato, você tem a perda da centralidade da Igreja como fonte do que é a verdade. É lógico que temos que tomar muito cuidado ao analisar um texto do século 18, mas se a gente pensa numa atualização do que diz Kant, podemos explorar várias questões. O texto de Kant nasce no século 18 a partir de um debate sobre o casamento civil. Poderíamos interpretá-lo para analisar a questão hoje do casamento homoafetivo. Nesse sentido, o pensamento de Kant é visto como algo perigoso pelos conservadores.

[7] Peres, Daniel Tourinho (2 December 2019). "Quão obscurantista é o emplasto filosófico de Olavo de Carvalho?" (in Portuguese). Le Monde Diplomatique. Mais interessante do que saber, porém, se a interpretação A ou B é a correta, é saber por que esta questão ocupa tanto espaço. Não que Olavo de Carvalho ofereça um interpretação. Não. O que ele fornece é uma simples e pura falsificação, afirmações absurdas sobre o filósofo que não encontram nenhuma sustentação. Nenhuma, zero. Mas ele oferece isso a pessoas que querem saber, ou seja, milhares de jovens que chegaram até ele e que foram por ele acolhidos. Olavo de Carvalho existe porque existe uma demanda legítima, da parte dos jovens, por orientação, por uma explicação sobre o que está acontecendo. Se ele faz isso, e se atinge o público enorme que atinge, é porque há procura e ele acabou ocupando esse espaço. Nós, que trabalhamos seriamente com filosofia, precisamos reconhecer: deixamos o espaço aberto para que uma figura sem qualquer escrúpulo ou honestidade o ocupasse.

[8] Duarte, Letícia (28 December 2019). "Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil's Far Right". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825.

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-'''Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho'''{{efn|According to the rules for&nbsp;[[Portuguese name|names in Portuguese]], the maternal family name comes first followed by the paternal one.}} {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of Rio Branco|GCRB]]}} (29 April 1947 – 24 January 2022)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nicas|first=Jack|date=2022-01-26|title=Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro's Far-Right Guru, Dies at 74|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/world/americas/olavo-de-carvalho-dead.html|access-date=2022-01-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=phillips/><ref name=minas/><ref name=perfil/> was a Brazilian [[polemic]]ist, self-proclaimed philosopher,<ref>{{cite web|title=Olavo de Carvalho: o guru autodidata de Bolsonaro|url=https://www.extraclasse.org.br/exclusivoweb/2018/11/olavo-de-carvalho-o-guru-autodidata-de-bolsonaro|first=Marcelo Menna|last=Barreto|date=2018|language=pt|website=Extraclasse.org.br}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Olavo de Carvalho está errado e não entendeu Kant, dizem três nomes de destaque da academia brasileira|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/olavo-de-carvalho-esta-errado-nao-entendeu-kant-dizem-tres-nomes-de-destaque-da-academia-brasileira-23440419|work=O Globo|date=10 February 2019|language=pt|last=Dantas|first=Dimitrius|quotation=Olavo é um anti-iluminista. Uma das características da modernidade é que, de fato, você tem a perda da centralidade da Igreja como fonte do que é a verdade. É lógico que temos que tomar muito cuidado ao analisar um texto do século 18, mas se a gente pensa numa atualização do que diz Kant, podemos explorar várias questões. O texto de Kant nasce no século 18 a partir de um debate sobre o casamento civil. Poderíamos interpretá-lo para analisar a questão hoje do casamento homoafetivo. Nesse sentido, o pensamento de Kant é visto como algo perigoso pelos conservadores.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Quão obscurantista é o emplasto filosófico de Olavo de Carvalho?|url=https://diplomatique.org.br/resposta-a-pergunta-quao-obscurantista-e-o-emplasto-filosofico-de-olavo-de-carvalho|date=2 December 2019|language=pt|publisher=[[Le Monde Diplomatique]]|last=Peres|first=Daniel Tourinho|quotation=Mais interessante do que saber, porém, se a interpretação A ou B é a correta, é saber por que esta questão ocupa tanto espaço. Não que Olavo de Carvalho ofereça um interpretação. Não. O que ele fornece é uma simples e pura falsificação, afirmações absurdas sobre o filósofo que não encontram nenhuma sustentação. Nenhuma, zero. Mas ele oferece isso a pessoas que querem saber, ou seja, milhares de jovens que chegaram até ele e que foram por ele acolhidos. Olavo de Carvalho existe porque existe uma demanda legítima, da parte dos jovens, por orientação, por uma explicação sobre o que está acontecendo. Se ele faz isso, e se atinge o público enorme que atinge, é porque há procura e ele acabou ocupando esse espaço. Nós, que trabalhamos seriamente com filosofia, precisamos reconhecer: deixamos o espaço aberto para que uma figura sem qualquer escrúpulo ou honestidade o ocupasse.}}</ref> [[Political science|political]] [[pundit]], former [[astrologer]], [[journalist]], and [[far-right politics|far-right]] [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Duarte|first=Letícia|title=Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil's Far Right|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/brazil-olavo-de-carvalho-jair-bolsonaro/604117/|date=2019-12-28|issn=1072-7825}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=After Capitol Hill Fury, Bolsonaro 'Guru' in US Spreads Conspiracy Theories|url=https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-olavo-de-carvalho-spreads-qanon-and-other-conspiracy-theories-after-storming-of-capitol-hill/31046899.html|access-date=2021-03-07|website=POLYGRAPH.info|language=en}}</ref> From 2005 until his death, he lived near [[Richmond, Virginia]], in the United  States.<ref name="occupations">{{Cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/mais/fs25109816.htm|title=Folha de S.Paulo - Diálogos impertinentes: A abrangência da moral - 25/10/98|language=pt|website=www1.folha.uol.com.br|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=McCoy|first=Terrence|title=He's the Rush Limbaugh of Brazil. He has Bolsonaro's ear. And he lives in rural Virginia.|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hes-the-rush-limbaugh-of-brazil-he-has-bolsonaros-ear-and-he-lives-in-rural-virginia/2019/07/14/4f73dee2-8ac4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html|access-date=5 October 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/11/22/politica/1542910509_576428.html|title="Anti-marxista" indicado por Olavo de Carvalho será ministro da Educação|last=Betim|first=Carla Jiménez, Felipe|date=23 November 2018|website=EL PAÍS|language=pt|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/velez-rodriguez-indicado-por-guru-dos-bolsonaro-e-pro-escola-sem-partido/|title=Vélez Rodríguez: indicado por guru dos Bolsonaro e pró-Escola sem Partido|website=VEJA.com|language=pt|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="phillips" />
+'''Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho'''{{efn|According to the rules for&nbsp;[[Portuguese name|names in Portuguese]], the maternal family name comes first followed by the paternal one. Much like Elon Musk and Kanye West, Olavo de Carvalho is often referred to by his first name rather than his last.}} {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of Rio Branco|GCRB]]}} (29 April 1947 – 24 January 2022)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nicas|first=Jack|date=2022-01-26|title=Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro's Far-Right Guru, Dies at 74|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/world/americas/olavo-de-carvalho-dead.html|access-date=2022-01-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=minas/><ref name=perfil/> was a Brazilian [[polemic]]ist, self-proclaimed [[Philosophy|philosopher]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Olavo de Carvalho está errado e não entendeu Kant, dizem três nomes de destaque da academia brasileira|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/olavo-de-carvalho-esta-errado-nao-entendeu-kant-dizem-tres-nomes-de-destaque-da-academia-brasileira-23440419|work=O Globo|date=10 February 2019|language=pt|last=Dantas|first=Dimitrius|quotation=Olavo é um anti-iluminista. Uma das características da modernidade é que, de fato, você tem a perda da centralidade da Igreja como fonte do que é a verdade. É lógico que temos que tomar muito cuidado ao analisar um texto do século 18, mas se a gente pensa numa atualização do que diz Kant, podemos explorar várias questões. O texto de Kant nasce no século 18 a partir de um debate sobre o casamento civil. Poderíamos interpretá-lo para analisar a questão hoje do casamento homoafetivo. Nesse sentido, o pensamento de Kant é visto como algo perigoso pelos conservadores.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Quão obscurantista é o emplasto filosófico de Olavo de Carvalho?|url=https://diplomatique.org.br/resposta-a-pergunta-quao-obscurantista-e-o-emplasto-filosofico-de-olavo-de-carvalho|date=2 December 2019|language=pt|publisher=[[Le Monde Diplomatique]]|last=Peres|first=Daniel Tourinho|quotation=Mais interessante do que saber, porém, se a interpretação A ou B é a correta, é saber por que esta questão ocupa tanto espaço. Não que Olavo de Carvalho ofereça um interpretação. Não. O que ele fornece é uma simples e pura falsificação, afirmações absurdas sobre o filósofo que não encontram nenhuma sustentação. Nenhuma, zero. Mas ele oferece isso a pessoas que querem saber, ou seja, milhares de jovens que chegaram até ele e que foram por ele acolhidos. Olavo de Carvalho existe porque existe uma demanda legítima, da parte dos jovens, por orientação, por uma explicação sobre o que está acontecendo. Se ele faz isso, e se atinge o público enorme que atinge, é porque há procura e ele acabou ocupando esse espaço. Nós, que trabalhamos seriamente com filosofia, precisamos reconhecer: deixamos o espaço aberto para que uma figura sem qualquer escrúpulo ou honestidade o ocupasse.}}</ref> [[Political science|political]] [[pundit]], former [[astrologer]], [[journalist]], and [[far-right politics|far-right]] [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Duarte|first=Letícia|title=Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil's Far Right|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/brazil-olavo-de-carvalho-jair-bolsonaro/604117/|date=2019-12-28|issn=1072-7825}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=After Capitol Hill Fury, Bolsonaro 'Guru' in US Spreads Conspiracy Theories|url=https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-olavo-de-carvalho-spreads-qanon-and-other-conspiracy-theories-after-storming-of-capitol-hill/31046899.html|access-date=2021-03-07|website=POLYGRAPH.info|language=en}}</ref> From 2005 until his death, he lived near [[Richmond, Virginia]], in the United  States.<ref name="occupations">{{Cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/mais/fs25109816.htm|title=Folha de S.Paulo - Diálogos impertinentes: A abrangência da moral - 25/10/98|language=pt|website=www1.folha.uol.com.br|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=McCoy|first=Terrence|title=He's the Rush Limbaugh of Brazil. He has Bolsonaro's ear. And he lives in rural Virginia.|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hes-the-rush-limbaugh-of-brazil-he-has-bolsonaros-ear-and-he-lives-in-rural-virginia/2019/07/14/4f73dee2-8ac4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html|access-date=5 October 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name="phillips" />
-While publishing about politics, literature and philosophy since the 1980s, he made himself known to wider Brazilian audiences from the 1990s onwards, mainly writing columns for some of Brazil's major media outlets, such as the newspaper ''[[O Globo]]''. In the 2000s, he began to use personal blogs and social media to convey his conservative and [[anti-communism|anti-communist]] ideas.<ref name="criticism">Monica Grin. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XI0QBAAAQBAJ&dq=olavo+de+carvalho+racismo&pg=PT35 "Raça": Debate Público no Brasil (1997-2007)]''. Rio de Janeiro, Mauad X/FAPERJ, 2010</ref><ref>{{in lang|pt}}Luísa Roxo Barja. [http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/aurora/article/view/4573/3166 A face obscura da política: governo e eleições no Mídia Sem Máscara]. Aurora. Revista de Arte, Mídia e Política. n. 4 (2009)</ref><ref>{{in lang|pt}}Gabriel Castro, [http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/olavo-de-carvalho-esquerda-ocupou-vacuo-pos-ditadura "Olavo de Carvalho: Esquerda Ocupou Vácuo Pós-ditadura,"] ''Veja'', 3 de Abril de 2011</ref> In the late 2010s, he rose to prominence in the Brazilian public debate, being dubbed the "intellectual father of the new right"<ref name="seminariodefilosofia.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.seminariodefilosofia.org/o-curso-online-de-filosofia/|title=O Curso Online de Filosofia – Seminário de Filosofia|website=www.seminariodefilosofia.org}}</ref> and the ideologue of [[Jair Bolsonaro]],<ref name="uol.com.br">{{Cite news |title=Ideólogo de Bolsonaro, Olavo de Carvalho critica nova direita |trans-title= |last=FLECK |first=ISABEL |work=Folha de S.Paulo |date=10 October 2017 |url= https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2017/10/1925778-ideologo-de-bolsonaro-olavo-de-carvalho-critica-nova-direita.shtml |language=pt-br}}</ref> a label that he came to reject.<ref name="oantagonista.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/olavo-mostra-folha-quem-e-ideologo/|title=Olavo diz que não é ideólogo de Bolsonaro|date=10 October 2017|website=O Antagonista}}</ref>
+While publishing about politics, literature and philosophy since the 1980s, he made himself known to wider Brazilian audiences from the 1990s onwards, mainly writing columns for some of Brazil's major media outlets, such as the newspaper ''[[O Globo]]''. In the 2000s, he began to use personal blogs and social media to convey his conservative and [[anti-communism|anti-communist]] ideas.<ref name="criticism">Monica Grin. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XI0QBAAAQBAJ&dq=olavo+de+carvalho+racismo&pg=PT35 "Raça": Debate Público no Brasil (1997-2007)]''. Rio de Janeiro, Mauad X/FAPERJ, 2010</ref><ref>{{in lang|pt}}Luísa Roxo Barja. [http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/aurora/article/view/4573/3166 A face obscura da política: governo e eleições no Mídia Sem Máscara]. Aurora. Revista de Arte, Mídia e Política. n. 4 (2009)</ref><ref>{{in lang|pt}}Gabriel Castro, [http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/olavo-de-carvalho-esquerda-ocupou-vacuo-pos-ditadura "Olavo de Carvalho: Esquerda Ocupou Vácuo Pós-ditadura,"] ''Veja'', 3 de Abril de 2011</ref> In the late 2010s, he rose to prominence in the Brazilian public debate, being dubbed the "intellectual father of the new right"<ref name="seminariodefilosofia.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.seminariodefilosofia.org/o-curso-online-de-filosofia/|title=O Curso Online de Filosofia – Seminário de Filosofia|website=www.seminariodefilosofia.org}}</ref> and the ideologue of [[Jair Bolsonaro]],<ref name="uol.com.br">{{Cite news |title=Ideólogo de Bolsonaro, Olavo de Carvalho critica nova direita |trans-title= |last=FLECK |first=ISABEL |work=Folha de S.Paulo |date=10 October 2017 |url= https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2017/10/1925778-ideologo-de-bolsonaro-olavo-de-carvalho-critica-nova-direita.shtml |language=pt-br}}</ref> a label which he rejected.<ref name="oantagonista.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/olavo-mostra-folha-quem-e-ideologo/|title=Olavo diz que não é ideólogo de Bolsonaro|date=10 October 2017|website=O Antagonista}}</ref>
-As a polemicist, Carvalho was criticized for often resorting to obscene ''[[ad hominem]]'' attacks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2018/11/27/a-estranha-obsessao-de-olavo-de-carvalho-pelo-furico-alheio/|title=A estranha obsessão de Olavo de Carvalho pelo furico alheio|first=Mário|last=Magalhães|date=28 November 2018|language=pt|website=theintercept.com}}</ref> His books and articles have spread conspiracy theories and false information,<ref name="cultural_marxism">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/corram-os-comunistas-estao-chegando-8968.html|title=Corram, os comunistas estão chegando|last=Antonio|first=José|work=CartaCapital|access-date=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20151011061104/http://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/corram-os-comunistas-estao-chegando-8968.html|archive-date=11 October 2015|url-status=live|language=pt|trans-title=Run, the communists are coming}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/tag/marxismo-cultural|title= Posts tagged ''marxismo cultural'' - Difamação por osmose|last=de Carvalho|first=Olavo|date=16 February 2014|website=Olavo de Carvalho - Website Oficial|publisher=Diário do Comércio|language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MpDcBo5UOc|title=Why Cultural Marxism Matters {{!}} Olavo de Carvalho and Stefan Molyneux|last1=Molyneux|first1=Stefan|last2=de Carvalho|first2=Olavo|date=26 July 2017|website=YouTube|access-date=15 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514113017/http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/06082002globo.htm |title=Do marxismo cultural |date=8 June 2002 |website=O Globo |last=Carvalho |first=Olavo |archive-date=14 May 2017 |url-status=dead |url=http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/06082002globo.htm}}<br />{{Cite web|url=https://colunastortas.com.br/o-que-e-marxismo-cultural/|title=O que é marxismo cultural? Uma abordagem à esquerda|date=24 November 2014|access-date=11 December 2018|website=Colunas Tortas|last=Siqueira|first=Vinicius|language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/11/22/politica/1542910509_576428.html|title="Anti-marxista" indicado por Olavo de Carvalho será ministro da Educação|date=23 November 2018|access-date=11 December 2018|website=El Pais|last=Jiménez|first=Carla|language=pt}}</ref> and he has been accused of fomenting [[hate speech]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sponholz|first1=Liriam|last2=Christofoletti|first2=Rogério|date=23 December 2018|title=From preachers to comedians: Ideal types of hate speakers in Brazil|journal=Global Media and Communication|volume=15|pages=67–84|doi=10.1177/1742766518818870|s2cid=149709581|issn=1742-7665|quote=Olavo de Carvalho represents this kind of hate speaker. Carvalho is an anti-communist writer living in the United States. He catches media attention through his books, texts, videos and audio on the Internet in order to criticize left-wing people, homosexuals and those who he considers to be ‘idiots’|doi-access=free}}</ref> and [[anti-intellectualism]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dw.com/pt-br/brasil-um-pa%C3%ADs-do-passado/a-46477566|title=Brasil, um país do passado|date=28 November 2018|access-date=15 March 2019|publisher=DW.com}}</ref> He positioned himself as a critic of modernity. His interests included [[Philosophy#Historical overview|historical philosophy]], the history of [[revolutionary movement]]s, the [[Traditionalist School]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-38282897|title=Olavo de Carvalho, o 'parteiro' da nova direita que diz ter dado à luz flores e lacraias|last=Fellet|first=João|date=15 December 2016|work=BBC News Brasil|language=pt-br}}</ref><ref name="Teitel">{{Cite book|last=Teitelbaum|first=Benjamin R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1WaDwAAQBAJ|title=War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers|date=21 April 2020|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-297847-9|language=en|chapter=20-Deep States|quote=I was beginning to understand why a reader of Guénon would become a champion of Bolsonaro. Olavo’s focus on Traditionalism’s opposition to modern science, though seemingly an apolitical subject, may have been more relevant to his analysis of political and social life than I first thought. In writing and in conversation he waxes seamlessly from disagreement with the scientific process to dismissal of modern knowledge to criticism of the institutions whose authority rests obliquely on modernist knowledge. It is in that final step when Traditionalism and populism can come together, when we can draw a line between astrology, alchemy, and the president. Not only are Brazil’s media, education system, and government corrupted by money and self-interests in his mind, but they are purveyors of ignorance, too, because of their blind investment in modern science and its inability to account for, let alone value, spirituality. The only immateriality they will admit is the abstractions of mathematics, which themselves serve to confuse as well, Olavo contends. Like Bannon, Olavo finds a trace of solace among the poor and uneducated, those most distanced from institutionalized education and knowledge production. In Brazil as in the United States, they are the keepers of spirit, those who have achieved a measure of community and context otherwise elusive in modernity. They are neither mathematical abstractions nor the bearers of hollow titles granted by hollow modern institutions. They are reality. They are the core.}}</ref> and [[comparative religion]].<ref>PATSCHIKI, Lucas. Anais do V Simpósio Internacional Lutas Sociais na América Latina. [http://www.uel.br/grupo-pesquisa/gepal/v9_lucas_GIX.pdf Fascismo e internet, uma possibilidade de análise social através das redes extrapartidárias: o caso do "Mídia Sem Máscara" (2011)]</ref> His views were rejected by some philosophers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/olavo-de-carvalho-esta-errado-nao-entendeu-kant-dizem-tres-nomes-de-destaque-da-academia-brasileira-23440419|title=Olavo de Carvalho está errado e não entendeu Kant, dizem três nomes de destaque da academia brasileira|date=10 February 2019|website=O Globo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2018/12/esnobado-por-intelectuais-olavo-de-carvalho-dominou-video-e-redes-sociais.shtml|title=Esnobado por intelectuais, Olavo de Carvalho dominou vídeo e redes sociais|date=14 December 2018|website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2018/11/unica-coisa-rigorosa-no-discurso-de-olavo-sao-os-palavroes-diz-ruy-fausto.shtml|title=Única coisa rigorosa no discurso de Olavo são os palavrões, diz Ruy Fausto|date=30 November 2018|language=pt|website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref>
+As a polemicist, Carvalho was criticized for often resorting to obscene ''[[ad hominem]]'' attacks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2018/11/27/a-estranha-obsessao-de-olavo-de-carvalho-pelo-furico-alheio/|title=A estranha obsessão de Olavo de Carvalho pelo furico alheio|first=Mário|last=Magalhães|date=28 November 2018|language=pt|website=theintercept.com}}</ref> His books and articles have spread conspiracy theories and false information,<ref name="cultural_marxism">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/corram-os-comunistas-estao-chegando-8968.html|title=Corram, os comunistas estão chegando|last=Antonio|first=José|work=CartaCapital|access-date=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20151011061104/http://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/corram-os-comunistas-estao-chegando-8968.html|archive-date=11 October 2015|url-status=live|language=pt|trans-title=Run, the communists are coming}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MpDcBo5UOc|title=Why Cultural Marxism Matters {{!}} Olavo de Carvalho and Stefan Molyneux|last1=Molyneux|first1=Stefan|last2=de Carvalho|first2=Olavo|date=26 July 2017|website=YouTube|access-date=15 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/11/22/politica/1542910509_576428.html|title="Anti-marxista" indicado por Olavo de Carvalho será ministro da Educação|date=23 November 2018|access-date=11 December 2018|website=El Pais|last=Jiménez|first=Carla|language=pt}}</ref> and he has been accused of fomenting [[hate speech]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sponholz|first1=Liriam|last2=Christofoletti|first2=Rogério|date=23 December 2018|title=From preachers to comedians: Ideal types of hate speakers in Brazil|journal=Global Media and Communication|volume=15|pages=67–84|doi=10.1177/1742766518818870|s2cid=149709581|issn=1742-7665|quote=Olavo de Carvalho represents this kind of hate speaker. Carvalho is an anti-communist writer living in the United States. He catches media attention through his books, texts, videos and audio on the Internet in order to criticize left-wing people, homosexuals and those who he considers to be ‘idiots’|doi-access=free}}</ref> and [[anti-intellectualism]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dw.com/pt-br/brasil-um-pa%C3%ADs-do-passado/a-46477566|title=Brasil, um país do passado|date=28 November 2018|access-date=15 March 2019|publisher=DW.com}}</ref> He positioned himself as a critic of modernity. His interests included [[Philosophy#Historical overview|historical philosophy]], the history of [[revolutionary movement]]s, the [[Traditionalist School]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-38282897|title=Olavo de Carvalho, o 'parteiro' da nova direita que diz ter dado à luz flores e lacraias|last=Fellet|first=João|date=15 December 2016|work=BBC News Brasil|language=pt-br}}</ref><ref name="Teitel">{{Cite book|last=Teitelbaum|first=Benjamin R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1WaDwAAQBAJ|title=War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers|date=21 April 2020|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-297847-9|language=en|chapter=20-Deep States|quote=I was beginning to understand why a reader of Guénon would become a champion of Bolsonaro. Olavo’s focus on Traditionalism’s opposition to modern science, though seemingly an apolitical subject, may have been more relevant to his analysis of political and social life than I first thought. In writing and in conversation he waxes seamlessly from disagreement with the scientific process to dismissal of modern knowledge to criticism of the institutions whose authority rests obliquely on modernist knowledge. It is in that final step when Traditionalism and populism can come together, when we can draw a line between astrology, alchemy, and the president. Not only are Brazil’s media, education system, and government corrupted by money and self-interests in his mind, but they are purveyors of ignorance, too, because of their blind investment in modern science and its inability to account for, let alone value, spirituality. The only immateriality they will admit is the abstractions of mathematics, which themselves serve to confuse as well, Olavo contends. Like Bannon, Olavo finds a trace of solace among the poor and uneducated, those most distanced from institutionalized education and knowledge production. In Brazil as in the United States, they are the keepers of spirit, those who have achieved a measure of community and context otherwise elusive in modernity. They are neither mathematical abstractions nor the bearers of hollow titles granted by hollow modern institutions. They are reality. They are the core.}}</ref> and [[comparative religion]].<ref>PATSCHIKI, Lucas. Anais do V Simpósio Internacional Lutas Sociais na América Latina. [http://www.uel.br/grupo-pesquisa/gepal/v9_lucas_GIX.pdf Fascismo e internet, uma possibilidade de análise social através das redes extrapartidárias: o caso do "Mídia Sem Máscara" (2011)]</ref> His views were rejected by some philosophers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/olavo-de-carvalho-esta-errado-nao-entendeu-kant-dizem-tres-nomes-de-destaque-da-academia-brasileira-23440419|title=Olavo de Carvalho está errado e não entendeu Kant, dizem três nomes de destaque da academia brasileira|date=10 February 2019|website=O Globo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2018/12/esnobado-por-intelectuais-olavo-de-carvalho-dominou-video-e-redes-sociais.shtml|title=Esnobado por intelectuais, Olavo de Carvalho dominou vídeo e redes sociais|date=14 December 2018|website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2018/11/unica-coisa-rigorosa-no-discurso-de-olavo-sao-os-palavroes-diz-ruy-fausto.shtml|title=Única coisa rigorosa no discurso de Olavo são os palavrões, diz Ruy Fausto|date=30 November 2018|language=pt|website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref>
-== Professional career==
+== Life ==
+=== Personal life ===
+According to his daughter, Carvalho had been a member of a [[Tariqa]], an order of [[Sufism]], but that was never verified.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carvalho |first1=Cleide |title="Olavo chegou a ter três esposas muçulmanas ao mesmo tempo", diz filha |url=https://www.epoca.globo.com/olavo-chegou-ter-tres-esposas-muculmanas-ao-mesmo-tempo-diz-filha-23582761%3fversao=amp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710065030/https://www.epoca.globo.com/olavo-chegou-ter-tres-esposas-muculmanas-ao-mesmo-tempo-diz-filha-23582761%3fversao=amp |archive-date=10 July 2019 |access-date=22 August 2021 |website=Epoca |language=Portuguese}}</ref>
+His eldest daughter, Heloisa de Carvalho Martins Arriba, accused her father of occasional maltreatment of his children. All content was wrapped in a letter that was later shared on Facebook. According to the letter, Olavo had even pointed a gun to the head of one of his children. She made other accusations including that Olavo kept a polygamous relationship living with three wives at the same time.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nakamura |first1=Erika K |title=Em carta aberta devastadora, filha de Olavo de Carvalho acusa o pai de "colocar arma na cabeça dos seus filhos" |url=https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/essencial/em-carta-aberta-devastadora-filha-de-olavo-de-carvalho-acusa-o-pai-de-colocar-arma-na-cabeca-dos-seus-filhos/ |website=Diário do Centro do Mundo |language=pt}}</ref> The accusations were denied by her siblings and by Olavo himself, who initiated a lawsuit against her citing that in her letter she "distances herself from any contact with reality by spreading outrageous lies and vile insults".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Olavo de Carvalho processa a própria filha por publicação de carta aberta|url=http://independente.jor.br/olavo-de-carvalho-processa-a-propria-filha-por-publicacao-de-carta-aberta/|last=Bruza|first=Rafael|date=25 October 2018|work=Independente|language=pt}}</ref>
+=== Professional career ===
 Carvalho acted as an astrologer in the 1980s,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tórtora |first1=Roberta |title=Um acerto de contas com a astrologia - Entrevista de Olavo de Carvalho a Roberta Tórtora |url=http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/textos/astrologia.htm |access-date=10 June 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010115224700/http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/textos/astrologia.htm |archive-date=15 January 2001 }}</ref> having learned it from, among others, the Argentine psychologist [[Juan Alfredo César Müller]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Astrologia |first=CNA Central Nacional de |date=2010-01-27 |title=Juan Alfredo César Müller |url=https://cnastrologia.org.br/juan-alfredo-cesar-muller/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=PORTAL CNA – Central Nacional de Astrologia |language=pt-BR}}</ref> From the 1970s to the 2000s, he wrote for several Brazilian magazines and newspapers, such as ''[[CTV Drama Channel|Bravo!]]'', ''Primeira Leitura'', ''Claudia'', ''[[O Globo]]'', ''[[Folha de S.Paulo]]'' (starting in February 1977 with an article about ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' in the "Folhetim" literary supplement<ref>[http://acervo.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1977/02/27/348//5412520 “Segredos da Flauta Mágica”] by Olavo de Carvalho, Folhetim literary supplement, [[Folha de S. Paulo]], 27 February 1977</ref>), ''[[Época (Brazilian magazine)|Época]]'' and ''[[Zero Hora]]''.<ref>Dornelles, Beatriz. ''Mídia, Imprensa e as Novas Tecnologias''. Volume 24, Coleção Comunicação. EDIPUCRS, 2002, p. 53. {{ISBN|978-85-7430-303-1}}</ref>
-In 2002, Carvalho founded the website ''Maskless Media'' (''Mídia Sem Máscara''). It presents itself as an observatory of the [[news media]].<ref>PATSCHIKI, Lucas. [http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/1789 Os litores de nossa burguesia: Mídia Sem Máscara em atuação partidária (2002–2011)]. Marechal Cândido Rondon: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História UNIOESTE, 2012</ref> He was the host of the show ''True Outspeak'' on [[BlogTalkRadio]], which aired from 2006 to 2013.<ref>[http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/host-highlight/a-brazilian-political-philosopher-tops-the-charts-at-blogtalkradio/ "A Brazilian Political Philosopher Tops the Charts at Blogtalkradio,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002153814/http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/host-highlight/a-brazilian-political-philosopher-tops-the-charts-at-blogtalkradio/ |date=2 October 2011 }} ''Blogtalkradio,'' 18 May 2007</ref> As of 2019, he wrote a weekly column for the Brazilian newspaper ''Diário do Comércio'' and taught philosophy in an online course to over 2,000 students.<ref name="seminariodefilosofia.org"/> He is said to have introduced to Portuguese-speaking readers works of important conservative philosophers of the 20th century, such as [[Eric Voegelin]].<ref>Kaio Felipe Mendes de Oliveira Santos, [http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/noctua/article/view/4030/3391 "O Duelo Filosófico entre Settembrini e Naphta em 'A Montanha Mágica',"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625052838/http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/noctua/article/view/4030/3391 |date=25 June 2016 }} ''Noctua'', No. 3, 2011</ref><ref>Horácio Lopes Mousinho Neiva, [https://jus.com.br/artigos/18634/o-dilema-da-justica-natural "O Dilema da Justiça Natural. A Crítica de Eric Voegelin à Dogmatização do Direito Natural,"] ''Jus Navigandi'', Teresina, Ano 16, No. 2804, 6 March 2011</ref> In addition to newspaper articles and many blog and social media posts, he authored 32 books, many of them collections of previously published texts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://olavodecarvalhofb.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/lista-de-livros-do-olavo-de-carvalho-2/|title=LISTA DE LIVROS DO OLAVO DE CARVALHO|last=acordailha|date=28 July 2018|website=wordpress.com}}</ref>
+In 2002, Carvalho founded the website ''Maskless Media'' (''Mídia Sem Máscara''). It presents itself as an observatory of the [[news media]].<ref>PATSCHIKI, Lucas. [http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/1789 Os litores de nossa burguesia: Mídia Sem Máscara em atuação partidária (2002–2011)]. Marechal Cândido Rondon: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História UNIOESTE, 2012</ref> He was the host of the show ''True Outspeak'' on [[BlogTalkRadio]], which aired from 2006 to 2013.<ref>[http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/host-highlight/a-brazilian-political-philosopher-tops-the-charts-at-blogtalkradio/ "A Brazilian Political Philosopher Tops the Charts at Blogtalkradio,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002153814/http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/host-highlight/a-brazilian-political-philosopher-tops-the-charts-at-blogtalkradio/ |date=2 October 2011 }} ''Blogtalkradio,'' 18 May 2007</ref> As of 2019, he wrote a weekly column for the Brazilian newspaper ''Diário do Comércio'' and taught philosophy in an online course to over 2,000 students.<ref name="seminariodefilosofia.org"/> He is said to have introduced to Portuguese-speaking readers works of important conservative philosophers of the 20th century, such as [[Eric Voegelin]].<ref>Kaio Felipe Mendes de Oliveira Santos, [http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/noctua/article/view/4030/3391 "O Duelo Filosófico entre Settembrini e Naphta em 'A Montanha Mágica',"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625052838/http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/noctua/article/view/4030/3391 |date=25 June 2016 }} ''Noctua'', No. 3, 2011</ref><ref>Horácio Lopes Mousinho Neiva, [https://jus.com.br/artigos/18634/o-dilema-da-justica-natural "O Dilema da Justiça Natural. A Crítica de Eric Voegelin à Dogmatização do Direito Natural,"] ''Jus Navigandi'', Teresina, Ano 16, No. 2804, 6 March 2011</ref> In addition to newspaper articles and many blog and social media posts, he authored a number of books, many of them collections of previously published texts. A list of his books published by one of his students in 2018 included 32 books.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://olavodecarvalhofb.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/lista-de-livros-do-olavo-de-carvalho-2/|title=LISTA DE LIVROS DO OLAVO DE CARVALHO|last=acordailha|date=28 July 2018|website=wordpress.com}}</ref>
 Carvalho founded the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought in 2009, and served as its president.<ref name="President">{{cite web|title=A word from our president|url=http://theinteramerican.org/welcome-to-the-inter-american-institute/|website=theinteramerican.org|access-date=26 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306045406/http://theinteramerican.org/welcome-to-the-inter-american-institute/|archive-date=6 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He collaborated with [[Ted Baehr]], [[Paul Gottfried]], [[Judith Reisman]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sccefile.scc.virginia.gov/07152275/AnnualReport/214548898.pdf|title=2014 ANNUAL REPORT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION|website=Scccefile.scc.virginia.gov|access-date=21 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sccefile.scc.virginia.gov/07152275/AnnualReport/213552939.pdf|title=2015 ANNUAL REPORT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION|website=Scccefile.scc.virginia.gov|access-date=21 February 2019}}</ref> [[Alejandro Peña Esclusa]], and [[Stephen Baskerville]] through the Inter-American Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fellows – The Inter American Institute|url=https://inter-american.org/fellows/|access-date=2022-01-26|language=en-US}}</ref> The institute closed down in 2018, possibly due to complaints made by Olavo's former students to the Institute's board that, among other complaints, he never concluded the [[secondary education]], and was not, as his profile in the Institute claimed, a former senior lecturer in the [[Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná|Catholic University of Paraná]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catracalivre.com.br/cidadania/o-fim-misterioso-da-entidade-da-olavo-de-carvalho-nos-eua/|title=O fim misterioso da entidade da Olavo de Carvalho nos EUA|date=1 December 2018|website=Catraca Livre|language=pt-BR|access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref>
+In [[2011]], Olavo had a written debate, in English, with [[Aleksandr Dugin]], on the topic of "The [[United States|USA]] and the [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]]". The debate was published on-line in a [[BlogSpot|Blogspot]] website,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-08-02 |title=INDEX/ÍNDICE |url=http://debateolavodugin.blogspot.com/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=The United States and the New World Order}}</ref> and was later translated to [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] for publishing in [[Brazil]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=Os EUA E A Nova Ordem Mundial |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2012 |isbn=978-85-67394-08-4 |edition=1 |location=Campinas |language=pt-BR |trans-title=The USA and the New World Order}}</ref> The debate was partially summarized in chapter 14 of the 2020 book ''War for Eternity,'' by Benjamin Teitelbaum.<ref name="Teitel" />
-==Role in the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro==
+=== Role in the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro ===
 [[File:Sérgio Amaral falando em jantar com Jair Bolsonaro e outras autoridades em Washington, D.C. em 2019.jpg|thumb|Dinner at the Brazilian embassy in Washington, D.C. in March 2019, Carvalho between Bolsonaro (right) and [[Ernesto Araújo|Araújo]] (left).]]
 {{Conservatism in Brazil|Intellectuals}}
 Carvalho became one of the most influential individuals in the [[presidency of Jair Bolsonaro|administration of Jair Bolsonaro]].<ref>{{Citation | last = McCoy | first = Terrence | year = 2019 | title = He's the Rush Limbaugh of Brazil. He has Bolsonaro's ear. And he lives in rural Virginia | newspaper = The Washington Post | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hes-the-rush-limbaugh-of-brazil-he-has-bolsonaros-ear-and-he-lives-in-rural-virginia/2019/07/14/4f73dee2-8ac4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html?noredirect=on | access-date =6 August 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Winter |first=Brian |date=17 December 2018 |title=Jair Bolsonaro's Guru |publisher=Americas Quarterly |url=https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/jair-bolsonaros-guru |access-date=6 August 2019 }}</ref> According to one account, Bolsonaro got interested in Carvalho's ideas in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://istoe.com.br/olavo-o-ideologo/|title=Olavo, o ideólogo|date=23 November 2018|website=istoe.com.br}}</ref> In 2014, Bolsonaro and Carvalho started transmitting their live video chats through politically conservative [[YouTube]] channels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpoOJ-NAzg|title=Hangout de Olavo de Carvalho com a família Bolsonaro|last=RADIOVOX|date=13 February 2014|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr6OdEhphAg|title=Hangout Completo 26/07/2015 Jair Bolsonaro, Olavo de Carvalho, Marcello Reis e Beatriz Kicis|last=Resistentes da Direita|date=26 July 2015|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQD7pPa0ZQ|title=Olavo de Carvalho / Jair Bolsonaro.|last=SUB MENTE|date=13 June 2016|via=YouTube}}</ref> In 2017, Carvalho was depicted as the "ideologue" of Bolsonaro,<ref name="uol.com.br"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2018/10/28/olavo-de-carvalho-conservadorismo-paranoico/|title=Olavo de Carvalho: o ideólogo do conservadorismo paranoico nacional|first=Alexandre|last=Andrada|date=29 October 2018|website=theintercept.com}}</ref> a title he has refuted.<ref name="oantagonista.com"/>
 In his first live speech on [[Facebook]] after being elected, Bolsonaro was pictured next to one of the books written by Carvalho, in what was interpreted as a sign of his influence over the newly elected president.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/no-live-da-vitoria-biblioteca-do-presidente-da-biblia-churchill-23194605|title=No 'live da vitória', a biblioteca do presidente: da Bíblia a Churchill|date=29 October 2018|website=O Globo}}</ref> It was claimed{{by whom|date=July 2019}} that Carvalho influenced the nomination of two prominent Ministers by Bolsonaro: [[Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez]] (Education) and [[Ernesto Araújo]] (Foreign Affairs).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2018/11/novo-chanceler-ernesto-araujo-foi-indicado-por-olavo-de-carvalho.shtml|title=Novo chanceler, Ernesto Araújo foi indicado por Olavo de Carvalho|date=14 November 2018|website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/11/22/politica/1542910509_576428.html|title="Anti-marxista" indicado por Olavo de Carvalho será ministro da Educação|first=Carla Jiménez, Felipe|last=Betim|date=23 November 2018|website=EL PAÍS}}</ref>
-In November 2018, after the [[2018 Brazilian general election|Brazilian presidential election]], Carvalho declared that, if nominated by President-elect [[Jair Bolsonaro]], he would accept the role of Brazilian ambassador to the United States. However, in February 2019, Carvalho clashed with some key figures of the Bolsonaro administration, including the Vice-President, [[Hamilton Mourão]], whom he accused of being a "traitor" and an "idiot" who is "pro-abortion, pro-disarmament and pro-[[Nicolás Maduro]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/america-do-norte,olavo-de-carvalho-chama-mourao-de-cara-idiota-e-critica-traidores,70002758366|title=Olavo de Carvalho chama Mourão de 'idiota' e diz que se governo seguir assim dura seis meses - Internacional|website=Estadão}}</ref> Mourão dismissed the criticisms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/mourao-quem-se-importa-com-opinioes-olavo/|title=Mourão: 'Quem se importa com as opiniões do Olavo?'|date=30 January 2019}}</ref>
+In November 2018, after the [[2018 Brazilian general election|Brazilian presidential election]], Carvalho declared that, if nominated by President-elect [[Jair Bolsonaro]], he would accept the role of Brazilian ambassador to the United States. However, in February 2019, Carvalho clashed with some key figures of the Bolsonaro administration, including the Vice-President, [[Hamilton Mourão]], whom he accused of being a "traitor" and an "idiot" who is "pro-abortion, pro-disarmament and pro-[[Nicolás Maduro]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/america-do-norte,olavo-de-carvalho-chama-mourao-de-cara-idiota-e-critica-traidores,70002758366|title=Olavo de Carvalho chama Mourão de 'idiota' e diz que se governo seguir assim dura seis meses - Internacional|website=Estadão}}</ref> Mourão dismissed the criticisms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/mourao-quem-se-importa-com-opinioes-olavo/|title=Mourão: 'Quem se importa com as opiniões do Olavo?'|date=30 January 2019}}</ref>
-== Death ==
+=== Death ===
 Olavo's family announced his death on social media, on January 24, 2022, eight days after he tested positive for [[COVID-19]].<ref name=perfil>{{Cite web|url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2022/01/25/perfil-oficial-de-olavo-de-carvalho-anuncia-seu-falecimento.amp.htm|title=Perfil oficial de Olavo de Carvalho anuncia seu falecimento|publisher=Noticias.uol.com.br|date=25 January 2022}}</ref> His family's statement did not specify his cause of death, but his daughter Heloísa said that it was from coronavirus.<ref name=phillips>{{Cite news |title=Covid denialist and Bolsonaro ally Olavo de Carvalho died of virus, says daughter |last=Phillips |first=Tom |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 January 2022 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/covid-denialist-bolsonaro-ally-olavo-de-carvalho-dies-coronavirus}}</ref><ref name=minas>{{Cite news|title=Filha de Olavo de Carvalho comenta morte do pai: 'Deus perdoe as maldades' |trans-title=Olavo de Carvalho's daughter comments on her father's death: 'May God forgive his evil deeds' |author=<!--not stated-->|newspaper=Estado de Minas |date=25 January 2022 |url= https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2022/01/25/interna_politica,1339949/filha-de-olavo-de-carvalho-comenta-morte-do-pai-deus-perdoe-as-maldades.shtml |language=pt }}</ref> His personal doctor denied it was COVID-19 and stated officially that his death was caused by respiratory stress associated with emphysema, heart failure, bacterial pneumonia, and a generalised infection.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Médico particular de Olavo de Carvalho nega morte de guru bolsonarista por Covid-19 |trans-title=Olavo de Carvalho's personal doctor denies death of Bolsonarista's guru by Covid-19 |first=Bela|last=Megale|newspaper=O Globo |date=25 January 2022 |url= https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/bela-megale/post/medico-particular-de-olavo-de-carvalho-nega-morte-de-guru-bolsonarista-por-covid-19.html |language=pt}} Source quotes the doctor's detailed official statement.</ref> Olavo was known for his [[vaccine hesitancy]] and often questioned the severity of [[COVID-19 pandemic]], spreading [[COVID-19 misinformation]] on his social media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://istoe.com.br/historinha-de-terror-para-acovardar-a-populacao-disse-olavo-sobre-coronavirus/|title='Historinha de terror para acovardar a população', disse Olavo sobre coronavírus|access-date=25 January 2018|website=ISTOÉ Independente}}</ref> According to his family, he died at a hospital outside of [[Richmond, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Nicas|first=Jack|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/world/americas/olavo-de-carvalho-dead.html|title=Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro's Far-Right Guru, Dies at 74|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2022-01-26|accessdate=2022-01-28}}</ref> He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in [[Petersburg, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanches |first1=Mariana |title=Olavo de Carvalho é enterrado nos EUA em funeral com Allan dos Santos e Ernesto Araújo |url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-60147865 |access-date=24 February 2022 |work=BBC News Brasil |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=26 January 2022 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
+At his death Olavo de Carvalho left his widow, eight children, and eighteen grandchildren.<ref name="perfil" />
-==Controversies==
-=== Basic sciences ===
-Carvalho propagated disinformation about prominent ideas and figures of modern science.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Serboncini |first1=Fernando |title=Coisas em que o Olavo de Carvalho acredita |url=https://medium.com/@fserb/coisas-que-o-olavo-de-carvalho-acredita-654e1617b6eb |website=Fernando Serboncini |date=31 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barbwire.com/olavo-de-carvalho-and-his-nonsense-on-trump-and-russia/|title=Olavo de Carvalho and His Nonsense on Trump and Russia|date=15 September 2016|access-date=11 December 2018|website=BarbWire|last=Severo|first=Julio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223003/https://barbwire.com/olavo-de-carvalho-and-his-nonsense-on-trump-and-russia/|archive-date=15 December 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He contested ideas of physicists [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Albert Einstein]], and mathematician [[Georg Cantor]]. He said Newton introduced a self-contradictory thesis and spread the virus of "formidable stupidity".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/nas-origens-da-burrice-ocidental/ |title=Nas origens da burrice ocidental|date=15 June 2006|last=de Carvalho|first=Olavo|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102193451/http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/nas-origens-da-burrice-ocidental/ |archive-date=2 January 2019|website=www.olavodecarvalho.org|publisher=Jornal do Brasil}}</ref> Olavo also said Einstein's theory of general relativity was plagiarized.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hT4bHh0ejM|title=Olavo de Carvalho REFUTA Albert Einstein|date=4 December 2018|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> Carvalho contradicted Georg Cantor's work on [[transfinite number]]s, accusing him of confusing "numbers with their mere signs", seeing his work as a "play with words" and a "false logic".<ref name="olavo"/>
+Olavo de Carvalho reportedly confessed his sins to a Roman Catholic priest and received the [[last rites]] before his death.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 January 2022 |title=Como foram as últimas horas de Olavo de Carvalho |url=https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/igor-gadelha/como-foram-as-ultimas-horas-de-olavo-de-carvalho |website=Metrópoles}}</ref>
-He also claimed that there are no proofs of [[heliocentrism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/felipe-moura-brasil/olavo-tem-razao-parabens-professor/|title=Olavo tem razão. Parabéns, professor - Felipe Moura Brasil|website=VEJA.com}}</ref> and that [[geocentrism]] was as valid as heliocentrism "since you can use different points of reference."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hETItWFxTDw|title=A Terra é Plana e Não se Move ? ! ! ! ? Olavo de Carvalho|last=IBRAHIM CHAUD NETO|date=20 March 2017|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> In 2018, on Facebook, he stated that he had no "definitive answer" to many "questions", such as whether the Earth is spherical or flat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/carvalho.olavo/posts/877759225709486|title=Olavo de Carvalho|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref>
+== Philosophical views ==
-Olavo strongly disagreed with several figures who occupy a prominent place in the history of the sciences, such as [[Isaac Newton]], and [[Giordano Bruno]], who according to him "did not make any discoveries... He did not even study modern sciences, physics, astronomy, biology or mathematics, he was not condemned for defending scientific theories, but for practicing witchcraft, which at the time was a crime".<ref name="olavo">[http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/traducoes/epicurus.htm ''The Garden of Afflictions''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124045341/http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/traducoes/epicurus.htm |date=24 January 2019 }}, Chap. VI, §16–17 [Chapter in English]</ref> The opposition extends to [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], of whom he writes:
-<blockquote>A background of charlatanism appears to have already been introduced into physics by Galileo, when he proclaimed that he had overturned the notions of ancient science, according to which an object not propelled by an external force stands still—an illusion of the senses, he said. In fact, he pontificated, an object in such conditions remains stationary or in uniform and rectilinear motion. But, after having thus overthrown the old physics, he discreetly clarified that rectilinear and uniform movement does not really exist, but is a fiction conceived by the mind to facilitate measurements. Now if the object not moved from without stands still or has a fictitious movement, it means, strictly speaking, that it stands still in every case, just as ancient physics said, and that Galileo, by means of a new system of measurements, could only explain why it stands still. That is to say, Galileo did not dispute ancient physics, he merely invented a better way of proving that it was correct, and that the testimony of the senses, being true enough, does not have in itself proof of its veracity, which was well known since the time of Aristotle. It was this episode that inaugurated the craze of modern scientists to take simple changes of methods as if they were "proofs" of a new constitution of reality.<ref name="olavo"/></blockquote>
-=== Fetuses as sweetener ===
+=== Definition of philosophy ===
+Olavo de Carvalho defined [[philosophy]] as "the search for the unity of knowledge in the unity of consciousness and vice-versa". He repeated this definition in various places, namely: in a 2020 interview with Fabíola Cidral,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Que é que você quer com a filosofia? – SAPIENTIAM AUTEM NON VINCIT MALITIA |url=https://olavodecarvalho.org/que-e-que-voce-quer-com-a-filosofia/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=olavodecarvalho.org}}</ref> in the introduction to his book about Descartes,<ref name="de Carvalho-2021" /> in part III of the essay "A filosofia e seu inverso" ("Philosophy and Its Inverse"), published in the book of the same name,<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=A filosofia e seu inverso: e outros estudos |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2012 |isbn=978-8595070936|edition=1 |location=Campinas |pages=63 |language=pt-BR}}</ref> and in his video course about [[Mário Ferreira dos Santos]], titled "Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guia para o estudo de sua obra" ("Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guide for the Study of His Work"), and published as a transcript in the book of the same name.<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guia para o estudo de sua obra |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2020 |isbn=978-65-87138-09-1 |edition=1 |location=Campinas |pages=82 |language=pt}}</ref> According to Ronald Robson, this definition implies that the work of philosophy can never be finished.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robson |first=Ronald |title=Conhecimento por presença: em torno da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2020 |isbn=978-65-87138-10-7 |edition=1 |location=Campinas |pages=270ff |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
+=== "Four discourses" in Aristotle ===
+Olavo de Carvalho believed that, according to [[Aristotle]], "human discourse is a single power, which actualizes itself in four different ways: poetics, rhetoric, dialectic, and analytic (logic)".<ref name="olavodecarvalho.org-2">{{Cite web |title=Aristóteles em Nova Perspectiva: Capítulo I – SAPIENTIAM AUTEM NON VINCIT MALITIA |url=https://olavodecarvalho.org/aristoteles-em-nova-perspectiva-capitulo-i/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=olavodecarvalho.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Medeiros |first=Gabriel Saldanha Lula de |date=2020-08-05 |title=CARVALHO, Olavo de. Aristóteles em nova perspectiva: introdução à Teoria dos Quatro Discursos. Campinas/SP, VIDE Editorial, 2013. |url=https://periodicoseletronicos.ufma.br/index.php/infinitum/article/view/13290 |journal=Infinitum: Revista Multidisciplinar |language=pt |pages=115–119 |issn=2595-9549}}</ref> This would be in contrast to views which would see poetics and rhetoric as sharply divided from analytical logic, and by extension, "Letters" from "the Sciences".<ref name="olavodecarvalho.org-2" /> Besides defending this as an interpretation of Aristotle, he also defended it as a philosophical view in its own right, which he thought could be of use for "our current search for an interdisciplinary knowledge". His writings about this view were collected in his book "Aristóteles em nova perspectiva: Introdução à teoria dos quatro discursos" ("Aristotle in a New Perspective: Introduction to the Theory of the Four Discourses").<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=Aristóteles em nova perspectiva: Introdução à teoria dos quatro discursos |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2016 |isbn=978-8562910197 |edition=1 |location=Campinas |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=aterraehredonda |date=2022-02-18 |title=Olavo de Carvalho e a extrema direita |url=https://aterraeredonda.com.br/olavo-de-carvalho-e-a-extrema-direita/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=A TERRA É REDONDA |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
+=== Cognitive parallax ===
+Olavo de Carvalho, taking inspiration from "the symbol of old cameras", coined the term "cognitive parallax" to "designate the structural displacement between the axis of a thinker's actual experience and the axis of their theoretical construction".<ref name="de Carvalho-2021" /> He mentioned this term in section 5 of his book about Machiavelli, claiming that Machiavelli was an example of cognitive parallax because "he taught the Prince to rise to power with the help of allies and then kill them, whereas obviously, he himself, as the author of the plan and therefore one of the Prince's greatest allies, would have been among the first to die if the plan were put into action."<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=Maquiavel ou A Confusão Demoníaca |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2016 |isbn=978-8562910036 |edition=1 |location=Campinas |language=pt-BR |trans-title=Machiavelli, or, The Demonic Confusion}}</ref> Olavo also mentioned the term "cognitive parallax" in section XIV of his book about Descartes, claiming that Descartes's interpretation of his "Olympian dreams"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stoothoff |first=Robert |date=1994 |title=&lt;i&gt;The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of René Descartes&lt;/i&gt; (review) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.1994.0098 |journal=Philosophy and Literature |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=154–155 |doi=10.1353/phl.1994.0098 |issn=1086-329X}}</ref> was an example.<ref name="de Carvalho-2021" /> The term is not to be confused with the psychological term "[[cognitive dissonance]]".
+In a 2008 interview, Olavo gave two other examples:<blockquote>I call [cognitive parallax] the sometimes radical displacement between the axis of a thinker's theoretical construction and the axis of their real human experience, as they themselves report it or as we know it from other reliable sources. Rare and exceptional in antiquity and the [[Middle Ages]], this displacement begins to appear with increasingly notable frequency from the 16th century onwards, giving some modern philosophies the comical appearance of somnambulistic gesticulations completely oblivious to the real environment in which they develop. A clear example is [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]'s theory of the unknowability of the "[[thing-in-itself]]". If we do not know the substance of material things, but only their phenomenal appearance, what hope can we have of someday grasping, from material evidence, that is, letters printed on a sheet of paper, the substance of Immanuel Kant's philosophy? Certainly, the philosopher from Königsberg would not be satisfied if we apprehended only the phenomenal appearance of his philosophy, which, in that sense, is radically incompatible with the act of writing books—and mind you, Kant wrote them abundantly. As coherent as it may be within itself, Kant's philosophy is incoherent with his own existence as a published work.
+Another example: [[Karl Marx]] says that only the [[proletariat]] can grasp the real movement of history because the classes that precede it are trapped in the subjective fantasy of their respective class ideologies. But if that's the case, why was Marx himself the first to perceive this and grasp the allegedly real movement of history, when he was not a proletarian, had no experience of proletarian life, and only knew proletarians through readings until his mature age? Either class ideology is inherent to the subject's real social position, or it is a free choice independent of social position, but in the latter case, it is not class ideology at all, but merely personal ideology projected ex post facto onto a class, also by free choice. There are so many examples of this kind that I never expect to be able to list more than a tiny fraction of them. Inevitably, the structural similarity between cognitive parallax and the inversion of time had to become clear one day, no matter how slow my mind may be.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bruno Garschagen entrevista Olavo de Carvalho – SAPIENTIAM AUTEM NON VINCIT MALITIA |url=https://olavodecarvalho.org/ser-conservador-e-nao-ser-jamais-o-portador-de-um-futuro-radiante/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=olavodecarvalho.org}}</ref></blockquote>According to a text by Ronald Robson, Olavo is supposed to have gone into more depth on cognitive parallax in a lecture titled "Introdução à paralaxe cognitiva" ("Introduction to cognitive parallax"),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robson |first=Ronald |date=2022-04-14 |title=Elementos da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho - Ronald Robson |url=https://diariointelectual.com.br/2022/04/14/elementos-da-filosofia-de-olavo-de-carvalho-ronald-robson/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=Diário Intelectual |language=pt-PT}}</ref> which, however, has not been published.
+==Controversial and misinformed views==
+=== Disagreement with famous scientists and mathematicians ===
+Carvalho propagated misinformation about prominent ideas and figures of modern science.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Serboncini |first1=Fernando |title=Coisas em que o Olavo de Carvalho acredita |url=https://medium.com/@fserb/coisas-que-o-olavo-de-carvalho-acredita-654e1617b6eb |website=Fernando Serboncini |date=31 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barbwire.com/olavo-de-carvalho-and-his-nonsense-on-trump-and-russia/|title=Olavo de Carvalho and His Nonsense on Trump and Russia|date=15 September 2016|access-date=11 December 2018|website=BarbWire|last=Severo|first=Julio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223003/https://barbwire.com/olavo-de-carvalho-and-his-nonsense-on-trump-and-russia/|archive-date=15 December 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He contested ideas of physicists [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Albert Einstein]], and mathematician [[Georg Cantor]].
+==== Views on Newton ====
+In an essay titled "Nas origens da burrice ocidental" ("At the origins of Western stupidity"), Olavo claimed that Newton introduced a self-contradictory thesis into the Western mind, which was responsible for spreading a virus of "formidable stupidity". The thesis in question referred to "eternal motion" and the [[law of inertia]]:<blockquote>Ancient physics stated that a body, if not moved by another, tends to remain at rest. Newton contested this, asserting that the force of its own inertia perpetually maintains each body in its present state, whether at rest or in uniform rectilinear motion. There is only one problem: if motion is eternal, it makes no sense to speak of a "present state" except in reference to a living observer endowed with a sense of temporality. In eternal motion, everything is flow and impermanence. There are no "states"—whether of rest or motion. "State" is merely a subjective impression that the observer, who is himself involved in the general motion, obtains by measuring physical movements with his inner time. The attempt to construct a purely mathematical universe independent of human perception ended up making everything dependent on human perception itself. Materialistic physics was founded on idealistic metaphysics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/nas-origens-da-burrice-ocidental/ |title=Nas origens da burrice ocidental|date=15 June 2006|last=de Carvalho|first=Olavo|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102193451/http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/nas-origens-da-burrice-ocidental/ |archive-date=2 January 2019|website=www.olavodecarvalho.org|publisher=Jornal do Brasil}}</ref></blockquote>Olavo went on to claim that the idea of eternal motion, besides contradicting the law of inertia, also contradicted itself. This essay was reproduced in his book about Descartes as an appendix.<ref name="de Carvalho-2021">{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=Visões de Descartes |publisher=Vide Editorial |year=2021 |isbn=978-6587138183 |edition=1 |location=Campinas |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
+==== Views on Giordano Bruno and Galileo ====
+Olavo strongly criticized [[Giordano Bruno]], who according to him "did not make any discoveries... He did not even study modern sciences, physics, astronomy, biology or mathematics, he was not condemned for defending scientific theories, but for practicing witchcraft, which at the time was a crime".<ref name="olavo">[http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/traducoes/epicurus.htm ''The Garden of Afflictions''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124045341/http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/traducoes/epicurus.htm|date=24 January 2019}}, Chap. VI, §16–17 [Chapter in English]</ref>
+Olavo also criticized [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], of whom he wrote:<blockquote>A background of charlatanism appears to have already been introduced into physics by Galileo, when he proclaimed that he had overturned the notions of ancient science, according to which an object not propelled by an external force stands still—an illusion of the senses, he said. In fact, he pontificated, an object in such conditions remains stationary or in uniform and rectilinear motion. But, after having thus overthrown the old physics, he discreetly clarified that rectilinear and uniform movement does not really exist, but is a fiction conceived by the mind to facilitate measurements. Now if the object not moved from without stands still or has a fictitious movement, it means, strictly speaking, that it stands still in every case, just as ancient physics said, and that Galileo, by means of a new system of measurements, could only explain why it stands still. That is to say, Galileo did not dispute ancient physics, he merely invented a better way of proving that it was correct, and that the testimony of the senses, being true enough, does not have in itself proof of its veracity, which was well known since the time of Aristotle. It was this episode that inaugurated the craze of modern scientists to take simple changes of methods as if they were "proofs" of a new constitution of reality.<ref name="olavo" /></blockquote>
+==== Views on Einstein ====
+Olavo claimed, in lecture 16 of his ''Online Philosophy Course'', that [[Albert Einstein]]'s theory of general relativity was plagiarized from earlier theorists such as [[Henri Poincaré|Poincaré]] and [[Hendrik Lorentz|Lorentz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hT4bHh0ejM|title=Olavo de Carvalho REFUTA Albert Einstein|date=4 December 2018|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A direita na tela |url=https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/direita-na-tela/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=revista piauí}}</ref> Olavo believed this claim on the basis of Christopher Jon Bjerknes's book ''Albert Einstein: the incorrigible plagiarist'', which does defend it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bjerknes |first=Christopher Jon |url=http://archive.org/details/alberteinsteinin0000bjer_p8i3 |title=Albert Einstein : the incorrigible plagiarist |date=2002 |publisher=Downers Grove, Ill. : XTX |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-9719629-8-9}}</ref>
+==== Views on Cantor ====
+Olavo contradicted Georg Cantor's work on [[transfinite number]]s, accusing him of confusing "numbers with their mere signs", seeing his work as a "play with words" and a "false logic".<ref name="olavo" />
+==== General views on astronomy, physics, and evolution ====
+Olavo claimed that there are no proofs of [[heliocentrism]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/felipe-moura-brasil/olavo-tem-razao-parabens-professor/|title=Olavo tem razão. Parabéns, professor - Felipe Moura Brasil|website=VEJA.com}}</ref> and that [[geocentrism]] was as valid as heliocentrism, "since you can use different [[Frame of reference|points of reference]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hETItWFxTDw|title=A Terra é Plana e Não se Move ? ! ! ! ? Olavo de Carvalho|last=IBRAHIM CHAUD NETO|date=20 March 2017|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
+In 2018, on Facebook, he stated that he had no "definitive answer" to the questions of "Evolutionism vs. fixed species", "heliocentrism vs. geocentrism", "spherical Earth vs. flat Earth", and "Einstein vs. Tesla".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/carvalho.olavo/posts/877759225709486|title=Olavo de Carvalho|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref>
+=== Misinformed views on contemporary science and consumer products ===
+==== Fetuses as Pepsi sweetener hoax ====
 Carvalho also spread the hoax of [[Pepsi]] using cells from [[Abortion|aborted fetuses]] to [[Sweetened beverage|sweeten]] soft drinks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/senomyx-flavor-additive/|title=Were Food Companies Caught Using Aborted Babies in Flavor Additives?|date=18 March 2012|access-date=11 December 2018|website=Snopes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.truthorfiction.com/fetal-cells-are-ingredients-in-food-and-drinks/|title=Fetal Cells Are Ingredients in Food and Drinks-Fiction!|date=17 April 2015|access-date=11 December 2018|website=Truth or Fiction}}</ref>
-=== Climate change ===
+==== Views on climate change ====
-Carvalho claimed that [[global warming denial|global warming is a hoax]] produced by a global conspiracy. He based his claims on the [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy|Climategate]] episode in which hackers, on the eve of the [[2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference|Copenhagen Conference]], disseminated thousands of e-mails from [[University of East Anglia]] climatologists in order to undermine the credibility of the conference. Carvalho claimed Climategate to be the work of a conspiracy led by the [[Rockefeller family]], the [[Council on Foreign Relations|Council of Foreign Relations]], the [[Bilderberg Meeting|Bilderberg Club]], and the [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]], indicating them also as leaders of the "global [[abortion]] and gay ... campaigns of the new bionic global religion, and of the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama]] administration's proposal for universal control of the movement of capital."<ref name="olavodecarvalho.org">{{cite web|url=http://old.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/100506dc.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417164441/http://old.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/100506dc.html|archive-date=17 April 2021|title=As cabeças e a missão|last=de Carvalho|first=Olavo|date=6 May 2010|website=old.olavodecarvalho.org|publisher=Diário do Comércio}}</ref>
+Carvalho claimed that [[global warming denial|global warming is a hoax]] produced by a global conspiracy. He based his claims on the [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy|Climategate]] episode in which hackers, on the eve of the [[2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference|Copenhagen Conference]], disseminated thousands of e-mails from [[University of East Anglia]] climatologists in order to undermine the credibility of the conference. Carvalho claimed Climategate to be the work of a conspiracy led by the [[Rockefeller family]], the [[Council on Foreign Relations|Council of Foreign Relations]], the [[Bilderberg Meeting|Bilderberg Club]], and the [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]], indicating them also as leaders of the "global [[abortion]] and gay ... campaigns of the new bionic global religion, and of the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama]] administration's proposal for universal control of the movement of capital".<ref name="olavodecarvalho.org">{{cite web|url=http://old.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/100506dc.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417164441/http://old.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/100506dc.html|archive-date=17 April 2021|title=As cabeças e a missão|last=de Carvalho|first=Olavo|date=6 May 2010|website=old.olavodecarvalho.org|publisher=Diário do Comércio}}</ref>
-=== Health ===
+==== Views on human health ====
 In a 2016 [[Twitter]] post, Carvalho claimed that "vaccines either kill you or drive you crazy. Never vaccinate your children."<ref>{{Cite tweet |first=Olavo |last=de Carvalho|user=OdeCarvalho|number=756945768808865792 |date=23 July 2016 |title=Vacinas matam ou endoidam. Nunca dê uma a um filho seu. Se houver algum problema, venha aqui que eu resolvo. |trans-title= |language=pt-br}}</ref>
 He falsely declared that [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] does not pose a risk to heterosexuals, basing his arguments on journalist [[Michael Fumento]]'s book ''The Myth of Heterosexual Aids''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Book Review|first=Andrew M.|last=Wiesenthal|date=11 October 1990|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=323|issue=15|pages=1078|doi=10.1056/NEJM199010113231523}}</ref><ref name="olavodecarvalho.org"/>
-On 22 March 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, he stated in a livestream on [[YouTube]] that there was no confirmed case of death from the virus in the world and that the pandemic would be "an invention" and "the most extensive manipulation of public opinion that has ever happened in human history".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/reinaldo-azevedo/2020/03/23/olavo-de-carvalho-sobre-coronavirus-a-endemia-simplesmente-nao-existe.htm|author=Reinaldo Azevedo|author-link=Reinaldo Azevedo|title=Olavo de Carvalho sobre coronavírus: "A endemia simplesmente não existe"|date=23 March 2020|access-date=9 April 2020|publisher=Uol|language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Olavo de Carvalho conta mentira de que não há mortes por covid-19|url=https://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/brasil/2020-03-23/olavo-de-carvalho-cria-teoria-da-conspiracao-de-que-coronavirus-nao-gerou-mortes.html|date=23 March 2020|website=Último Segundo - iG|language=pt-BR}}</ref> At that date, according to the [[World Health Organization]], there were more than 294,000 cases of the disease and 12,784 deaths from it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://istoe.com.br/essa-epidemia-simplesmente-nao-existe-diz-olavo-de-carvalho-sobre-coronavirus/|title="Essa epidemia simplesmente não existe", diz Olavo de Carvalho sobre coronavírus|date=23 March 2020|language=pt-br|publisher=Isto É}}</ref>
+On March 22, 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, he stated in a livestream on [[YouTube]] that there was no confirmed case of death from the virus in the world and that the pandemic would be "an invention" and "the most extensive manipulation of public opinion that has ever happened in human history".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/reinaldo-azevedo/2020/03/23/olavo-de-carvalho-sobre-coronavirus-a-endemia-simplesmente-nao-existe.htm|author=Reinaldo Azevedo|author-link=Reinaldo Azevedo|title=Olavo de Carvalho sobre coronavírus: "A endemia simplesmente não existe"|date=23 March 2020|access-date=9 April 2020|publisher=Uol|language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Olavo de Carvalho conta mentira de que não há mortes por covid-19|url=https://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/brasil/2020-03-23/olavo-de-carvalho-cria-teoria-da-conspiracao-de-que-coronavirus-nao-gerou-mortes.html|date=23 March 2020|website=Último Segundo - iG|language=pt-BR}}</ref> At that date, according to the [[World Health Organization]], there were more than 294,000 cases of the disease and 12,784 deaths from it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://istoe.com.br/essa-epidemia-simplesmente-nao-existe-diz-olavo-de-carvalho-sobre-coronavirus/|title="Essa epidemia simplesmente não existe", diz Olavo de Carvalho sobre coronavírus|date=23 March 2020|language=pt-br|publisher=Isto É}}</ref>
+=== Misinformed views on politics and history ===
-=== Politics ===
-Carvalho spread the debunked conspiracy theory that [[Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Barack Obama was not born in the United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/essencial/olavo-de-carvalho-divulga-documento-falsificado-de-obama/|title=Olavo de Carvalho divulga documento falsificado de Obama|first=Kiko|last=Nogueira|date=18 August 2015|language=pt-br}}</ref> Furthermore, he claimed that [[Foro de São Paulo]] "is the largest political organization that has ever existed in Latin America and undoubtedly one of the largest in the world."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/felipe-moura-brasil/conheca-o-foro-de-sao-paulo-o-maior-inimigo-do-brasil/|title=Conheça o Foro de São Paulo, o maior inimigo do Brasil - Felipe Moura Brasil|website=VEJA.com|language=pt-br}}</ref> He also made up the fake information that a book written by [[Fernando Haddad]], the opponent of [[Jair Bolsonaro]] during the [[2018 Brazilian general election]], promoted incest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/fato-ou-fake/noticia/2018/10/16/e-fake-que-livro-escrito-por-haddad-incentive-o-incesto-e-cite-dez-mandatos-do-comunismo.ghtml|title=É #FAKE que livro escrito por Haddad incentive o incesto e cite dez mandamentos do comunismo|website=G1}}</ref>
+==== Views on Brazilian politics ====
-On 17 March 2019, Carvalho criticised the presence of military personnel in [[Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro|Bolsonaro's administration]], stating: "He didn't choose two hundred generals. Two hundred generals chose him. Those people want to restore the [[Brazilian military government|1964 regime]] under a democratic aspect. They're ruling and using Bolsonaro as a [[condom]] [sic]. I'm not saying that it is the reality, but it is what they want. [[Hamilton Mourão|Mourão]] said that they would return to power democratically. If it is not a [[Coup d'état|coup]], it is a coup mentality."<ref>[https://www.valor.com.br/politica/6164073/para-olavo-de-carvalho-se-nao-mudar-governo-acaba-em-seis-meses Para Olavo de Carvalho, se não mudar, governo acaba em seis meses] Valor Econômico, 17 March 2019. Quote (Portuguese): "Se tudo continuar como está, já está mal. Não precisa mudar nada para ficar mal. É só continuar assim. Mais seis meses, acabou. Ele não escolheu 200 generais. Foram 200 generais que o escolheram. Esse pessoal quer restaurar o regime de 1964 sob um aspecto democrático. Eles estão governando e usando o Bolsonaro como camisinha. Não digo que seja realidade, mas o que eles querem. O Mourão disse isso. Que voltaram ao poder pela via democrática. Se não é um golpe, é uma mentalidade golpista."</ref>
+Olavo claimed that the [[Foro de São Paulo]] "is the largest political organization that has ever existed in Latin America and undoubtedly one of the largest in the world".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/felipe-moura-brasil/conheca-o-foro-de-sao-paulo-o-maior-inimigo-do-brasil/|title=Conheça o Foro de São Paulo, o maior inimigo do Brasil - Felipe Moura Brasil|website=VEJA.com|language=pt-br}}</ref>
+Olavo also shared the false information that a book written by [[Fernando Haddad]], the opponent of [[Jair Bolsonaro]] during the [[2018 Brazilian general election]], promoted incest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/fato-ou-fake/noticia/2018/10/16/e-fake-que-livro-escrito-por-haddad-incentive-o-incesto-e-cite-dez-mandatos-do-comunismo.ghtml|title=É #FAKE que livro escrito por Haddad incentive o incesto e cite dez mandamentos do comunismo|website=G1}}</ref>
-[[Sleeping Giants]] started a campaign to reduce his influence on Brazilian politics and convinced advertisers to remove their media buying from his online newspaper and YouTube channel. Also [[PayPal]] decided to cancel their contract and removed their services from his online seminars due to violation of terms of use.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fogel|first=Benjamin|date=7 August 2020|title=PayPal blocks Olavo de Carvalho in latest blow for far-right ideologue|url=https://brazilian.report/tech/2020/08/07/paypal-blocks-olavo-de-carvalho-in-latest-blow-for-far-right-ideologue/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916152831/https://brazilian.report/tech/2020/08/07/paypal-blocks-olavo-de-carvalho-in-latest-blow-for-far-right-ideologue/|archive-date=16 September 2020|access-date=5 October 2020|website=The Brazilian Report}}</ref>
+On March 17, 2019, Carvalho criticised the presence of military personnel in [[Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro|Bolsonaro's administration]], stating: "He didn't choose two hundred generals. Two hundred generals chose him. Those people want to restore the [[Brazilian military government|1964 regime]] under a democratic aspect. They're ruling and using Bolsonaro as a [[condom]]. I'm not saying that it is the reality, but it is what they want. [[Hamilton Mourão|Mourão]] said that they would return to power democratically. If it is not a [[Coup d'état|coup]], it is a coup mentality."<ref>[https://www.valor.com.br/politica/6164073/para-olavo-de-carvalho-se-nao-mudar-governo-acaba-em-seis-meses Para Olavo de Carvalho, se não mudar, governo acaba em seis meses] Valor Econômico, 17 March 2019. Quote (Portuguese): "Se tudo continuar como está, já está mal. Não precisa mudar nada para ficar mal. É só continuar assim. Mais seis meses, acabou. Ele não escolheu 200 generais. Foram 200 generais que o escolheram. Esse pessoal quer restaurar o regime de 1964 sob um aspecto democrático. Eles estão governando e usando o Bolsonaro como camisinha. Não digo que seja realidade, mas o que eles querem. O Mourão disse isso. Que voltaram ao poder pela via democrática. Se não é um golpe, é uma mentalidade golpista."</ref>
-On a January 2021 interview, Carvalho falsely claimed that election fraud took place in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 American presidential election]], stating "Everything in this election has been fraudulent." During the same interview Carvalho falsely asserted that [[Joe Biden]] had Parkinson's disease and that Biden and [[Kamala Harris]] were working for the Chinese government.<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 January 2021|title=After Capitol Hill Fury, Bolsonaro 'Guru' in US Spreads Conspiracy Theories|url=https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-olavo-de-carvalho-spreads-qanon-and-other-conspiracy-theories-after-storming-of-capitol-hill/31046899.html|url-status=live|access-date=14 April 2021|website=[[Polygraph.info]]|language=en}}</ref>
-=== Religion ===
+==== Views on American politics ====
-Carvalho advocated a [[Historical revisionism|revisionist]] view of the [[Inquisition]], claiming it is a myth spread by Protestants.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Olavo de Carvalho, o 'parteiro' da nova direita que diz ter dado à luz flores e lacraias|url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-38282897|last=Fellet|first=João|date=15 December 2016|work=BBC|access-date=11 December 2018|language=pt}}{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQLsHFCA6U|title=Mito da Inquisição e a Igreja de Constantino - Prof. Olavo de Carvalho|last=Conservative|first=Davis|date=10 January 2016|language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.apocalipsenews.com/brasil/olavo-de-carvalho-e-a-inquisicao/|title=Olavo de Carvalho e a Inquisição|date=15 June 2016|access-date=11 December 2018|website=Apocalipse News|last=Severo|first=Julio|language=pt}}</ref>
-=== Litigation ===
+===== Views on birtherism =====
+Olavo de Carvalho believed that Barack Obama's documents,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-29 |title=Psiu! Esse assunto é proibido! |url=https://diariodopoder.com.br/opiniao/psiu-esse-assunto-e-proibido |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=Diário do Poder |language=pt-BR}}</ref> such as his birth certificate, social security card, and military enlistment,<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=de Carvalho |first=Olavo |title=O Mínimo Que Você Precisa Saber Para Não Ser Um Idiota |publisher=Record |year=2017 |isbn=978-85-01-11173-9 |edition=Edição de colecionador (Collector's Edition) |location=Rio de Janeiro |pages=567 |language=pt-BR |trans-title=The Minimum You Need to Know to Not Be an Idiot |quote="Barack Hussein Obama elegeu-se presidente com documentos falsos. Sua certidão de nascimento é falsa, seu cartão de Social Security é falso, seu alistamento militar é falso. Especular onde ele nasceu é conjetura, saber se é elegível ou não é matéria de controvérsia legal, mas os documentos falsos são fatos brutos, visíveis com os olhos da cara. A mídia chapa-branca, que é a mídia americana inteira, desviou a discussão dos fatos para as especulações, e os próprios birthers caíram no engodo, insistindo em tentar vetar pela lei eleitoral um candidato que mais facilmente teriam enviado à cadeia por crime de falsidade documental. Napoleão ensinava que é preciso atacar o adversário diretamente e num só ponto, o mais vulnerável. Os birthers, iludidos pela classe jornalística maciçamente obamista, diluíram sua força de ataque, investindo contra o inimigo em terrenos onde ele desfruta de um estoque ilimitado de subterfúgios processuais." [Translation: "Barack Hussein Obama was elected president with false documents. His birth certificate is fake, his Social Security card is fake, his military enlistment is fake. Speculating where he was born is conjecture, knowing whether he is eligible or not is a matter of legal controversy, but the false documents are plain facts, visible to the naked eye. The white-plate media, which is the entire American media, shifted the discussion from the facts to speculations, and the birthers themselves fell into the trap, insisting on trying to veto a candidate through electoral law whom they could have more easily sent to jail for the crime of document forgery. Napoleon taught that one must attack the adversary directly and in a single vulnerable point. The birthers, deceived by the overwhelmingly pro-Obama journalistic class, diluted their attacking force by investing against the enemy on terrains where he enjoys an unlimited stock of procedural subterfuge." Note that "mídia chapa-branca", translated as "white-plate media", is a Brazilian expression, originating from government vehicles having white license plates, referring to media which is excessively supportive of the government's version of a story.]}}</ref> were not genuine. In particular, he believed [[Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley|Christopher Monckton]]'s testimony about Obama's birth certificate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=O império das puras coincidências – SAPIENTIAM AUTEM NON VINCIT MALITIA |url=https://olavodecarvalho.org/o-imperio-das-puras-coincidencias/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=olavodecarvalho.org}}</ref> While this view is typically associated with the conspiracy theory that [[Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Barack Obama was not born in the United States]], Olavo refrained from questioning his birthplace, claiming in a 2012 column that "birthers" had "diluted" their "attack power" by focusing on claims about Obama's birthplace rather than Obama's documents.<ref name=":2" /> However, he later shared a [[Forgery|forged]] picture on social media that purportedly showed a "[[International student|foreign student]]" card from [[Columbia University]] with Barack Obama's name on it, thereby contributing to the spread of birtherism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nogueira |first=Kiko |date=18 August 2015 |title=Olavo de Carvalho divulga documento falsificado de Obama |url=https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/essencial/olavo-de-carvalho-divulga-documento-falsificado-de-obama/ |language=pt-br}}</ref>
-In 2020, Carvalho was ordered to pay 2.8 million Brazilian reais in [[libel]] charges after accusing musician [[Caetano Veloso]] of sexual crimes against children.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Caetano Veloso tem decisão favorável na Justiça em ação contra Olavo de Carvalho|url=https://entretenimento.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2020/05/03/caetano-tem-decisao-favoravel-na-justica-em-acao-contra-olavo-de-carvalho.html/|website=entretenimento.uol.com.br|language=pt-br|access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Caetano Veloso cobra dívida milionária de Olavo de Carvalho por descumprir decisão judicial|url=https://istoe.com.br/caetano-veloso-cobra-divida-milionaria-de-olavo-de-carvalho-por-descumprir-decisao-judicial/|date=12 December 2019|website=ISTOÉ Independente|language=pt-BR|access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref>
+===== Other views on American politics =====
-==Personal life==
+In a January 2021 interview, Carvalho falsely claimed that [[Electoral fraud|election fraud]] took place in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 American presidential election]], stating "Everything in this election has been fraudulent." During the same interview Carvalho falsely asserted that [[Joe Biden]] had Parkinson's disease and that Biden and [[Kamala Harris]] were working for the Chinese government.<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 January 2021|title=After Capitol Hill Fury, Bolsonaro 'Guru' in US Spreads Conspiracy Theories|url=https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-olavo-de-carvalho-spreads-qanon-and-other-conspiracy-theories-after-storming-of-capitol-hill/31046899.html|url-status=live|access-date=14 April 2021|website=[[Polygraph.info]]|language=en}}</ref>
-At his death Olavo de Carvalho left his widow, eight children, and eighteen grandchildren.<ref name=perfil/>
+==== Views on European history ====
-His eldest daughter, Heloisa de Carvalho Martins Arriba, accused her father of occasional maltreatment of his children. All content was wrapped in a letter that was later shared on Facebook. According to the letter, Olavo had even pointed a gun to the head of one of his children. She made other accusations including that Olavo kept a polygamous relationship living with three wives at the same time.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nakamura |first1=Erika K |title=Em carta aberta devastadora, filha de Olavo de Carvalho acusa o pai de "colocar arma na cabeça dos seus filhos" |url=https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/essencial/em-carta-aberta-devastadora-filha-de-olavo-de-carvalho-acusa-o-pai-de-colocar-arma-na-cabeca-dos-seus-filhos/ |website=Diário do Centro do Mundo |language=pt}}</ref> The accusations were denied by her siblings and by Olavo himself, who initiated a lawsuit against her citing that in her letter she "distances herself from any contact with reality by spreading outrageous lies and vile insults".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Olavo de Carvalho processa a própria filha por publicação de carta aberta|url=http://independente.jor.br/olavo-de-carvalho-processa-a-propria-filha-por-publicacao-de-carta-aberta/|last=Bruza|first=Rafael|date=25 October 2018|work=Independente|language=pt}}</ref>
+Carvalho advocated a [[Historical revisionism|revisionist]] view of the [[Inquisition]], claiming it is a myth spread by Protestants.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Olavo de Carvalho, o 'parteiro' da nova direita que diz ter dado à luz flores e lacraias|url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-38282897|last=Fellet|first=João|date=15 December 2016|work=BBC|access-date=11 December 2018|language=pt}}{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQLsHFCA6U|title=Mito da Inquisição e a Igreja de Constantino - Prof. Olavo de Carvalho|last=Conservative|first=Davis|date=10 January 2016|language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.apocalipsenews.com/brasil/olavo-de-carvalho-e-a-inquisicao/|title=Olavo de Carvalho e a Inquisição|date=15 June 2016|access-date=11 December 2018|website=Apocalipse News|last=Severo|first=Julio|language=pt}}</ref>
+== Actions by third parties to mitigate Olavo's influence ==
-According to his daughter, Carvalho was a member of a [[Tariqa]], an order of [[Sufism]], but that was never verified.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carvalho |first1=Cleide |title="Olavo chegou a ter três esposas muçulmanas ao mesmo tempo", diz filha |url=https://www.epoca.globo.com/olavo-chegou-ter-tres-esposas-muculmanas-ao-mesmo-tempo-diz-filha-23582761%3fversao=amp |website=Epoca |access-date=22 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710065030/https://www.epoca.globo.com/olavo-chegou-ter-tres-esposas-muculmanas-ao-mesmo-tempo-diz-filha-23582761%3fversao=amp |archive-date=10 July 2019 |language=Portuguese |url-status=dead}}</ref>
+In 2020, [[Sleeping Giants]] started a campaign to reduce his influence on Brazilian politics and convinced advertisers to remove their media buying from his online newspaper and YouTube channel.<ref name=":1" /> This led to [[PayPal]] deciding to cancel their contract with Olavo, and remove their services from his online seminars, citing violation of terms of use.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Fogel |first=Benjamin |date=7 August 2020 |title=PayPal blocks Olavo de Carvalho in latest blow for far-right ideologue |url=https://brazilian.report/tech/2020/08/07/paypal-blocks-olavo-de-carvalho-in-latest-blow-for-far-right-ideologue/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916152831/https://brazilian.report/tech/2020/08/07/paypal-blocks-olavo-de-carvalho-in-latest-blow-for-far-right-ideologue/ |archive-date=16 September 2020 |access-date=5 October 2020 |website=The Brazilian Report}}</ref>
+Also in 2020, Carvalho was ordered to pay 2.8 million [[Brazilian real|Brazilian reais]] in [[libel]] charges after accusing musician [[Caetano Veloso]] of sexual crimes against children.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Caetano Veloso tem decisão favorável na Justiça em ação contra Olavo de Carvalho|url=https://entretenimento.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2020/05/03/caetano-tem-decisao-favoravel-na-justica-em-acao-contra-olavo-de-carvalho.html/|website=entretenimento.uol.com.br|language=pt-br|access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Caetano Veloso cobra dívida milionária de Olavo de Carvalho por descumprir decisão judicial|url=https://istoe.com.br/caetano-veloso-cobra-divida-milionaria-de-olavo-de-carvalho-por-descumprir-decisao-judicial/|date=12 December 2019|website=ISTOÉ Independente|language=pt-BR|access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref>
-Olavo de Carvalho reportedly confessed his sins to a Roman Catholic priest and received the [[last rites]] before his death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/igor-gadelha/como-foram-as-ultimas-horas-de-olavo-de-carvalho|title=Como foram as últimas horas de Olavo de Carvalho|date=25 January 2022|website=Metrópoles}}</ref>
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 * {{Official|http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/}} {{in lang|pt}}
 * [https://dcomercio.com.br/colunista/olavo-de-carvalho Olavo de Carvalho's articles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226113945/https://dcomercio.com.br/colunista/olavo-de-carvalho |date=26 February 2022 }}, at ''Diário do Comércio'' {{in lang|pt}}
+* ''[http://debateolavodugin.blogspot.com/ The United States and the New World Order]'', the official website of Olavo de Carvalho's written debate, in English, with [[Aleksandr Dugin]]. Although it is a Blogspot website, it is confirmed to be official by a published translation into Portuguese. (Olavo de Carvalho, "Os EUA E A Nova Ordem Mundial", 1 ed. Campinas: Vide Editorial, 2012. <nowiki>ISBN 978-85-67394-08-4</nowiki>.) It is also cited by ''War for Eternity'', by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, which covers it.
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