Following American election results (eg, New York City, New Jersey, Virginia), I doubt that Europeans can and/or will truly understand Americans. European socialism is dead, while European nationalism is surging. “Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York in a historic victory that will put an avowed democratic socialist — and the first Muslim...
My 2016 triangle of 3 dimensions, Love, Knowledge & Power, including 7 Belief systems: (1) Love (1x Love), (2) Money, Politics, Religion (3x Power), and (3) Philosophy, Science, and the Truth (3x Knowledge). Please see my - still evolving - diagram below: Source: my 2020 blog Source: my 2025 blog is it possible that the 2025 American political chaos does not...
Tot voor kort nam ik de Raad van State (RvS) nog vrij serieus. Ik ben echter blij dat minister Mona Keijzer dat niet langer doet en haar wetsvoorstel toch indient. De RvS argumentatie maakte nogal wat (negatieve) emotie bij mij los. De reactie van de minister was echter vrij mild: “Het advies van de Raad van State komt niet onverwachts. Toch is het van groot belang...
Intro LO: In mijn visie is deze conservatieve trend onder jongeren nogal voorspelbaar omdat vrijwel elke generatie tegenovergesteld is aan de vorige. Dus in de jaren 1960-80 van conservatief naar progressief. In de jaren 1980-90 volgde de draai naar de VVD. Nu gaan we van progressieve ouders naar conservatieve jongeren. Als middenstanders op een dorp waren mijn...
Several weeks ago, I noticed a funny trailer of season 4 of Only Murders in the Building (OMITB). Unfortunately, season 4 is hardly funny while season 1 was quite funny and entertaining. Hence, I fail to understand its very high average IMDb rating of 8.1. A rating of 6.9 would be (more than) enough. Season 4 has very many cameo appearances by well-known actors....
My title has been borrowed from a recent FT article on their formerly liberal conservatives a.k.a. Tories. My initial gut feeling was that liberal conservatives are now illiberal conservatives. The same argument also applies to the American Republican conservatives. For many years, the word liberal has been an American insult. Nowadays, it’s slowly becoming a...
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