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Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.
Because what good is a panopticon if you can't generate some clicks?
Onze samenleving heeft een obsessie met de uitzondering die het verpest voor de overgrote meerderheid. Het gevolg: een cultuur van angst, cynisme en wantrouwen. Een ode aan de brave buitenlander, de goedwillende gelovige en de werkende wet.
Rotterdammers ervoeren woensdagavond wat het betekent om in een land te wonen waar de terreurdreiging substantieel is. Een tip uit Spanje werd door de Nederlandse autoriteiten zo serieus ingeschat, dat een politiemacht naar Rotterdam-Zuid toog en het concert van de band Allah-Las werd afgelast...
The terms addiction and compulsion tend to be used loosely and often interchangeably. But in an article in the Wall Street Journal, science writer Sharon Begley draws a simple but illuminating dist…
We have a new president who is also a new kind of president. Our previous chief executives — at least those of the post–World War II era — were not in the business of outright bigotry and misogyny. Nor did they make common cause with white supremacists, boast about sexual assault, or threaten to jail their opponents. Nor did they openly deride and undermine the traditions and institutions that it is the president’s duty to uphold. Donald Trump is different. Since he was elected in November, many Americans have struggled to assimilate our changed reality, the radical discontinuity that his victory represents. It has been a long winter, a season of fear, grief, and, perhaps above all, rage — a feeling compounded by its seeming futility. “Impotent hatred is the worst of all emotions,” Goethe said. “One should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.” As a once-unthinkable Trump presidency gets under way, it is time to recognize that we are not as impotent as we may have felt — that even if we cannot destroy Trump, we can resist his primitive vision to the best of our abilities. There are no guarantees that we will succeed, but, as the writers in this forum all make clear, not to try would be a dereliction. A new kind of president demands a new kind of citizen.