The Memetic Heretics
- Laura Slot
- 21 March 2024
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The Little Man
- Laura Slot
- 4 March 2024
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‘Davos Men’ and ‘Dead Souls’: 20 Years Later
- Laura Slot
- 21 February 2024
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“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
- Laura Slot
- 25 August 2023
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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…
Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
- Laura Slot
- 15 June 2022
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A poem by HK & The Saltimbanks This is my first post in a couple of weeks. I intend on blogging more in the nearby…
Dutch Debate is Dead
- Laura Slot
- 5 July 2023
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Debate Remains Dead. And They've Killed It. Listen to this article A popular song about the Covid restrictions was ‘We’ve Lost Dancing’ in 2021. In…
All Talk, No Action
- Laura Slot
- 13 January 2023
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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…
The Modern Hero
- Laura Slot
- 24 January 2024
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Last week a Dutch biography of Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) was published, and even after seven years of work his biographer said in a television…
Old Wild Horses
- Laura Slot
- 28 December 2023
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All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one hundred years. Much attention was…
De ‘hamsterwiel’-jaren
- Laura Slot
- 10 June 2021
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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,…
From Ponzi to Ponzi
- Laura Slot
- 23 March 2021
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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…
Old Wild Horses
- Laura Slot
- 28 December 2023
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All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one hundred years. Much attention was…
It’s Human Nature?
- Laura Slot
- 4 October 2023
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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of…
“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
- Laura Slot
- 25 August 2023
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The Little Man
- Laura Slot
- 4 March 2024
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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…
‘Davos Men’ and ‘Dead Souls’: 20 Years Later
- Laura Slot
- 21 February 2024
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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…
The Modern Hero
- Laura Slot
- 24 January 2024
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Computer Still Says No
- Laura Slot
- 7 February 2024
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Humor is often prophetic. The sketch from Little Britain –‘Computer says No’– is exactly twenty years old. An unfriendly, cold-hearted hospital receptionist conveniently suspends all…
The Modern Hero
- Laura Slot
- 24 January 2024
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Last week a Dutch biography of Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) was published, and even after seven years of work his biographer said in a television…