Syria stands at the edge of irreversible fragmentation. A series of covert meetings, shifting alliances, and calculated ...

Early in my career, I was labelled as “too serious and not fun.” The toughest part? They weren’t entirely wrong. I showed up to meetings with one goal: to ...

Mahler' (1974), a movie that is all about smoke and mirrors, about tricking you into doubting everything you see because you ...

Another grim day for freedom of speech advocates who dare stand up against the rhetoric of the (radical) left that has ...

China’s rise as a global power is no longer a distant prospect – it is happening now. While Russia’s grip over the ...

The radical left-wing Dutch politician and leader of the GreenLeft and Labour, former European Commissioner, Frans Timmermans ...

In April 2022, a roadmap to peace lay on the table. In Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine negotiated a deal that could have ended ...

The more I watch those videos of the seemingly endless Hamas tunnels in Gaza, the more I start to grasp what we are up ...

Something tragic is unfolding on the intellectual right. At a time when some of the most compelling cultural critiques come ...

The common denominator of the indigenous European peoples in Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and most other European countries is a similar state of ...

I only watched 'Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline' (1979) for the sake of the centrepiece of the story, Audrey Hepburn, and even she couldn’t liven it up. Thank heavens I watched a Chuck Norris movie ...

Whoever wants to understand the gravity of what happened in Noisy-le-Sec must read my book Exodus from the Lighthouse (Dutch). A free outdoor screening of Barbie had to be cancelled because fifteen ...