Peter Rosenwald
A resident of São Paulo for almost 20 years, New Yorker Peter Rosenwald combines careers as a marketing executive and journalist. Senior dance and music critic for 'The Wall Street Journal' for 17 years, his writing has also appeared in 'New York Magazine', 'The Guardian' and many other publications. He is the author of 'Accountable Marketing'.
Gringo View: War Is Never Civil
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) It would be nice for this gringo to be able to follow recent advice to “lighten up”, to...
Gringo View: The murder of George Floyd & rescue of a purple unicorn
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) The way US law enforcement treats different criminal suspects has been on endless display these past few weeks....
Gringo View: Missing Arts & Culture
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) It’s a hopeful sign that the longer we stay cooped up in our pandemic isolation, the greater our...
Gringo view: The problem is not the electoral system – the problem is the voters
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) About the only thing this gringo can reliably say about the US electoral system is it’s a horrific...
Gringo View: Cancel “Cancel Culture”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - I don’t know about you guys but the more this gringo hears about "cancel culture", the more I want...
Gringo View: It’s high time to get our data back
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Almost every second of every day, mostly without our knowledge or consent, mega-data about each of us flies at...
Gringo View: Our Free Speech Conundrum
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - When Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and almost all other reasonable social media threw the ‘off’ switches closing Donald Trump’s access...
Gringo View: Class War – ‘Them’ and ‘Us’
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Donald Trump has finally disappeared from center stage and Joe Biden has been inaugurated as the 46th president...
Gringo View: Watching History Happen in Real Time
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) “The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing...
Gringo View: The Bright Side of 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) The good news about the year just about to end is that even if it has been an...
Gringo View: Status Is Not Just About Money
RIO DE JANERIO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) The firestorm of consciousness about class, race and cultural values, ignited by the police killing of handcuffed George...
Gringo View: Deciding What Not To Write About
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) There comes a point when figuring out what not to write about is almost easier than finding subjects...
Gringo View: The Trump & Bolsonaro Cults – Suspension of Disbelief
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - When we put our observable reality on the shelf to enjoy flying ‘faster than a speeding bullet’ with ‘Superman’...
Gringo View: Endgame
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Sadly, I have to admit that I was drastically wrong.
Despite the fact that Joe Biden has at last...