Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people were sitting down, watching the shadows on the wall created […]
Category: History
Isaac
In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, Vrouwenpolder, in the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. Ten years […]
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to a luxury cruise, the promise […]
Marx Attacks!
Jordan Peterson recently made an attempt to equate philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) to the devil, but this was nothing but an insult to the devil –and a definite end to […]
Skies and Limits
Among the participants of an international conference in the Belgian city of Ghent in May 2010, it was well known that the modification of cirrus clouds had been ongoing for […]
The Little Man
In the summer of 1945 psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) wrote a riveting essay entitled Listen, Little Man! – addressing all the forms of the ‘Little Man’ and ‘Little Woman’ who […]
‘Davos Men’ and ‘Dead Souls’: 20 Years Later
Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite was an essay published twenty years ago by Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008), a prominent political scientist who taught at Harvard University. One […]
The Modern Hero
Last week a Dutch biography of the murdered artist Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) was published. Even after seven years of work, his biographer admitted in a television interview that he […]
Heroic Historians
Without a somewhat accurate, reliable account of our common history we can’t work towards a better future. Sometimes time will tell. Sometimes time will set the record straight, but time […]