Discussions about the presidential debates have been less about the content of the policies proposed by both candidates focusing on their behavior, e.g. Trump’s ‘hovering’ over Hillary Clinton was commented on frequently. Continue reading “The Trump Theatre”
Category: Autonomy
An Autonomous Year for Eurovision?
By Quirijn van den Hoogen
Groningen University
This year Eurovision was particularly interesting to me. I have many fond childhood memories of watching a night of Euro-trash pop music ever since Johnny Logan’s victory 1980. But I lost interest somewhere in the late 1990s after Eastern Europe started entering the competition as an expression of their independence ‘regained’ after 1989, flooding the competition with Balkan pop. Continue reading “An Autonomous Year for Eurovision?”
Good Art, Good Science?
By Quirijn van den Hoogen
Groningen University
Martin Stratmann, the president of the world famous Max Planck Society visited the Netherlands on March the 4th. The society can boost an impressive academic track record with 18 Nobel Prize laureates and a yearly ‘turnover’(this is really the word the Dutch newspapers used) of 15.000 scientific articles in their journals. Continue reading “Good Art, Good Science?”