The Analytic Hour

Recently I read four works in an intriguing order. I started off with Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread. This marvel of political philosophy is not only seen as Kropotkin’s Magnum Opus (along with Mutual Aid), but also regarded as a guiding text into anarchist thought. Afterwards, I read Ivan Jablonka’s recent hit The History of…

On the 16th of November I attended a book presentation on the most recent publication of Professor Ferenc Hörcher of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This being: Art and Politics in Roger Scruton’s Conservative Philosophy. I have developed a newfound respect for the tradition of intellectual conservatism, even if I disagree with the large bulk…

Dit essay is geschreven voor het tijdschrift Contact dat gepubliceerd wordt door het Olivaint Genootschap van België. We horen vaak in hedendaags politiek discours dat de vrije meningsuiting wordt bedreigd. Zeker langs de reactionaire kant klinkt het alsof de “Woke-mob en de “cancelcultuur” ons allemaal de mond wil snoeren bij het fout verwoorden van een…

This text is treated as an ongoing project and will thus be updated periodically. Therefore, it does not have a conclusion yet and ends abruptly. Ever since starting my third and final year of political science at the VUB, the EU has been an inescapable topic of discussion for me for many years now. When…

“They are great blessings to have tender parents, dutiful children and to live under a just and well-ordered government.” – Seneca, On A Happy Life1 On the 9th of November 2023 the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) organised a free policy talk about the state of mental health in Europe and the EU’s involvement in…