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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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This was a short talk on the EU’s role in financially assisting Ukraine considering the ongoing Russian invasion. It was presented by Sebastian Clapp and Tim Peters, policy experts in the EPRS. An executive summary written by Tim Peters1 states three important aspects of EU policy on the issue. The first being that Ukraine’s recovery
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Waar rechts én links fout gaan. Woke dit, woke dat, woke hier, woke daar… Ik denk dat meeste mensen dat woord absoluut beu zijn gehoord. Toch staat de media en -vooral rechtse- retoriek er vol mee. Met dank aan -onder andere- Bart De Wever en Tom Lanoye is het onderwerp nu ook in de Belgische
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Het concept van onderwijs op een massale schaal vormt al jaren een grote bron van vragen en discussieonderwerpen voor mij. Een aantal van mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn van mijn grootvader en moeder hun verhalen over hun eigen schoolleven in het Turkije van de 20ste eeuw. Wat me vooral bijbleef van die verhalen was hoe een
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I recently travelled between Brussels and Istanbul as a last-minute impulsive trip to visit my grandmother. A two-way flight that I have grown quite familiar with over the years. However, I did feel that this time around I started noticing aspects of air travel that I hadn’t before. It was especially the strange environment that
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This text was written as part of a week long simulation of the European Parliament at the end of which it was my task to deliver a speech. Our committee was dealing with policy solutions surrounding climate change and pollution. However dramatic as 17-year-old me tended to be, it still holds true with my current
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