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  • The power of the word ‘and’

    Even though I am currently not working, I am musing. A reader’s letter in the Volkskrant regarding the alternative Remembrance of the Dead (Nationale Dodenherdenking, annually on 4 May) triggered this blog. In this letter the Volkskrant reader wrote: ‘[…] it feels as if the remembrance of the Holocaust and the extermination of Jewish life…

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  • To blog or not to blog

    ‘The screw in the [moral] compass that allows the needle to move.’ That is the way I characterized academics, and legal historians in particular, in my contribution to a Liber Amicorum a few years ago. This was written when the UK had already voted to leave the EU, but had not yet left. Crimea was…

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