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: Ending US Hypocrisy
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) A Trump victory in the US presidential elections Tuesday, November 3rd, is too awful for this gringo to...
Gringo View: Where Are The Clowns?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) There is an old circus-generated theatrical tradition that when everything is going wrong on stage and the audience...
Gringo View: Hic Sunt Dracones
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Imagine the vision of a medieval ancient mariner, sailing west from Europe, unsure what lay ahead, lands unknown...
Gringo View: Our Existential Dilemma
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) At the beginning of the third act of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, struggling in the knowledge of the rot and...
Gringo View: Revisiting ‘1984’ – Are We Going Mad?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) It has become seriously disquieting and almost impossible to know what to believe in the dystopian world into...
Gringo View: Is Now a Good Time to Write Your Own Obituary?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) How many of us, stranded and isolated for the past months by the pandemic and unable to have...
Gringo View: Order, Progress and Unity?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Watching the Brazilian flag with its stirring positivistic motto ‘Ordem e Progresso’ flapping in the wind and reflecting...
Gringo View: A Light In The Isolation Tunnel
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) There is very little positive to gather from these months of isolation. In fact, when it is over,...
Gringo View Opinion: The Bananas in Brazil Are So Good
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) It has certainly been easy to trash Brazil lately. It seems to have become a mini-industry for the...
Gringo View: Thank the Gods for Butterflies
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) No doubt some math geniuses have developed algorithms that accurately demonstrate this theory: the more times one hears...
Gringo View: Escaping the Tyranny of the `Ism` (Opinion)
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) On the political far left we have communism. On the far right we have authoritarianism and fascism. We live...
Gringo View: Where is all this Leading? (Opinion)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (Opinion) I’m old enough to remember very clearly October 1962 when Russian ships carrying missiles were just hours away from...
Opinion: The Cost of Survival of the Fittest
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Any reader of Charles Darwin’s 1859 classic, ‘On the Origin of Species’ will be familiar with his theory...
Gringo View: Addicts in a Dystopian Dream
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) I don`t know about you but the first thing I normally do each morning is to pick my...