observation

If I can use Beatrice de Graaf’s redemption motto when building toy radicals, I can also use it to recreate Mao’s communists in 1942 China.… Read More »Mao’s Groove

What I don’t want to see is how things are getting out of hand in India now. But they do happen. I will give three… Read More »What I do not wish to see (India etc.)

Today the way back has been taken. The curfew ends, terraces open again. The general feeling is that the Dutch government no longer feels itself… Read More »Back to the Future?

It’s been about COVID-19 for over a year now. On all media. TV and radio are becoming more and more difficult to tolerate. Today’s main… Read More »COVID confusion?

The weather is fine now, but this morning it was snowing, I think with flakes already melting, they fell straight down, close together and quite… Read More »Fiction

Because radio provides a safe border crossing to the outside world in pandemic times, we often listen to it. That goes well until 9:30 in… Read More »The radio, Ding Ling, the Internet and Shen Congwen

Yesterday I answered the question of how Rutte could have let the parliamentary drama of 1/2 April happen. Does that answer contain knowledge? And if… Read More »What kind of political knowledge is useful?

For every jurisdiction, the first encounter with the COVID-19 virus has been a challenge of how to respond to a pandemic. It was China’s turn… Read More »The first wave and beyond: China and the USA

It is of course an impossible task for a lawyer-programmer to independently make a sound design of the developments of a pandemic in four different… Read More »Global Medical Ethics