Professor Olavo de Carvalho (1947-2022) was born in the metropolitan city of Campinas, Brazil. He did not pursue a formal academic title but rather began his studies very early in life, consuming a large amount of classic universal literature, followed by Religion, Philosophy, and Political Science, among other fields. He worked as a journalist for hitherto prestigious newspapers in Sao Paulo.

By the 1990s, he initiated his public career as a professor and writer as he published three best-seller books, which sold out many times. They were “The Garden of Afflictions”, “The Collective Imbecile”, and “The New Age and the Cultural Revolution”—yet to be available in English. By 2000, he went abroad many times, lecturing in France, Colombia, and Romania—the latter he went back to be interviewed later on many other occasions. In 2005, he moved to the United States with his wife and two children, where he was granted the specious abilities visa to be a permanent resident. Years later he started his weekly radio program, the True Out Speak, followed by his Online Seminar on Philosophy, subscribed by thousands of people.

Throughout his public career, he was the author of over 30 books and 700 lectures in which he exposed a lifetime of research while building an authentic philosophy of his own. The core of his philosophy consists of the development of one’s personality and intellect against the collective authority—philosophy as being “the pursuit of the true knowledge only possible by and in one’s conscience”.

Professor Carvalho exposed the damage brought about by collectivism in society and harshly criticized the deep effects it performed on people, such as the consequences of what have had proposed thinkers such as Descartes, Marx, Gramsci, and the Frankfurt School. Professor Carvalho demonstrated many times how their thoughts have been so deeply infiltrated until became part of the society’s culture.

The mainstream media and academic figures, influenced by this very same collectivism, reacted to Professor Carvalho's teachings by trying to silence him, but those attempts were not as successful as the truth he outspoken. He became appraised by great intellectuals of his time—such as Paulo Francis, Brazilian intellectual and diplomat; Fr. Stanislavs Ladusãns, Latvian priest and academic professor; Frederick Wagner from Eric Voegelin Society, Jody Cockerill-Bruhn, Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame—, as well as the people in Brazil. In the past years, a spontaneous popular movement made of families resurged in the streets, and countless handwritten signs “Olavo is right” have been seen held by many hands.