Book Review of Alan Philps: The Red Hotel by Patrick van Schie   Mr. Jones In the 2019 film Mr. Jones, the Metropol Hotel in Moscow is portrayed as a hotbed of disinformation in the early 1930s. Jones is a recently unemployed British journalist, proud of having interviewed Hitler, and now eager to secure an […]

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It has been 80 years since Karl Popper published his book The Open Society and Its Enemies. In his book Popper demonstrated how dangerous the political-philosophical foundations of Marxism already were. Our vice-chairman, Patrick van Schie, discussed the book on the evening of Monday, May 12, with GroenLinks MP Lisa Westerveld at the debate center De […]

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Review of Lea Ypi, Free. Coming of Age at the End of History, 978-0241481851, 313 pages.   Patrick van Schie   Lea Ypi is a curious girl full of questions. That may not be so special, but it is a challenging feature because she grew up in the eighties in Albania, which was then the […]

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