opinion

Nescio’s Natuurdagboek (Nature Diary) is for himself. A log. With times and places of trips to where those who have legs and eyes can harvest… Read More »Nescio, his walks and Bert Verhoeff

Today is Monday, July 19, 2021, Freedom Day in the UK. The COVID measures are gone. This led to massive physical fraternization in the streets,… Read More »Freedom Day and a Tentative Prediction

I neglected this blog for a while because I was asked to give a one-hour lecture to a conference of young computer scientists interested in… Read More »Goodbye to Social Science?

Thinking of Holland, broad rivers I see, passing slowly through endless horizons is my clumsy translation of a world-famous quote (in the Netherlands that is,… Read More »Thinking of Holland …

I think that the parliamentary meeting of April 1 in the Netherlands showed conflicting religious and scientific truths as they can work in the political… Read More »Clashing truths in the Netherlands around April 1, 2021

My OCT thesis (on conflicting truths) is the following: Clashes between religious and scientific truths arise either when core cultural values threaten to limit the… Read More »Clashing Truths

Actually, it is crazy to expect that I could achieve something by reenacting political processes with the help of toy worlds. In different cultures too.… Read More »Religious and Scientific Truths

It is not very difficult to find reports in the press about conditions that characterize culture-bound situations in the US, the EU, Saudi Arabia and… Read More »Cultural diversity

While discussing cooperation with Marco Velicogna on what the law means in our COVID-pandemic times for political stability in jurisdictions he mentioned work by Gustave… Read More »(1895) Gustave Le Bon and Mob Psychology

In the Netherlands, today, a judge awarded an appeal against the illegality of the COVID curfew. The movement that filed the appeal operates under the… Read More »Differences (China, Italy)