How to Acquire Knowledge? What can we know? Perhaps not an uncontroversial question nowadays, yet an important one. Right after his speech at the Heritage […]
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On Indifference and Identity
When Moral Relativism Becomes Nihilism Back in 2007, Argentinian native Máxima Zorreguieta, who married Dutch crown-prince Willem-Alexander in 2002, angered many Dutch people by saying […]
All Talk, No Action
Journalism Since the Great Financial Crisis In early 2009 I attended a memorable panel discussion at Columbia University’s Journalism School in New York. A handful […]
Dutch Media’s Unforced Errors
Balancing the Scales after Deceit A law of nature dictates that energy always tries to balance itself, like a scale that’s always moving to the […]
Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
A poem by HK & The Saltimbanks This is my first post in a couple of weeks. I intend on blogging more in the nearby […]
The Deafening Silence of Columbia Journalism School
Maybe I missed the memo. I sure hope I did. Maybe there are groups of journalists trained by my alma mater, Columbia University Graduate School […]
De ‘hamsterwiel’-jaren
Waar ging het mis? Zal het straks mis gaan, is het al mis gegaan, of allebei? Voormalig econoom en oud-werknemer van Lehman Brothers Michael Krieger, […]
New Words
The beauty of language is that it can’t be stripped of its human, unpredictable, flawed, emotional, dynamic, local, temporary and irrational elements. Language is always […]
From Ponzi to Ponzi
I met Bernie Madoff at a party in Florida. It was just a year or so before December 2008, when he got arrested and began […]
Journalism, Truth and Time
If I don’t speak my truth, I will never be able to take myself seriously again. I would be betraying myself AND my profession. My […]
Er klopt iets niet
Het was nog erg vroeg, maar zoals altijd en overal in New York was het leven op straat in volle gang. Ik liep vlak bij […]