Freedom and power are oftentimes inversely related, similar to the way social norms and moral codes can be inversely related. In times like these, when causes and consequences are continuously […]
Author: Laura Slot
“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
On Action in the Face of Destruction I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (1963) Is it comforting or worrisome to […]
I’ve Closed My Substack
Yesterday I migrated most of my ‘Old Revolutions’ Substack content here to my own website. If you are subscribed to my publication Old Revolutions on Substack you don’t have to […]
Addiction Cure Suppressed
The strange disappearance of books and articles on baclofen “Drinking heavily, you abandon people–and they abandon you–and you abandon yourself–It’s a form of partial murder but too sad to go […]
Dutch Debate is Dead
Debate Remains Dead. And They’ve Killed It. A popular song about the Covid restrictions was ‘We’ve Lost Dancing’ in 2021. In The Netherlands, we certainly lost much dancing during these […]
Assumptions are Dangerous
Especially for the Targets of PsyOps: You & Me Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make — bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake — […]
Revenge of the Epistemologists
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 Foundation Tucker Carlson said that, […]
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 she ‘searched for the Dutch […]
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 of elite journalists who were […]
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 middle, which is the most […]
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 future. I am taking a […]
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 of Journalism in New York […]
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, @Libertyblitz op Twitter, omschreef laatst […]
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 moving, it’s never the same […]
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 his 150 years in jail […]
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 entire career is built on […]
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 het metrostation Brooklyn Borough Hall […]