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Hendrik Spiering retweeted
Today has felt like a very medieval day: ‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v0…
Onze democratie begon als een geschenk uit de middeleeuwen
Hendrik Spiering retweeted
A Swan, about 1270
(Franco-Flemish The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 41)
Hendrik Spiering retweeted
Trump's win over Harris in the popular vote keeps shrinking and shrinking. Now he has only 49.85 over her 48.27, so a difference of only 1.58, according to the Cook Political Report's update today. Not a majority, only a plurality. Not a landslide, not a mandate.
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13 januari Perestrojkast live met minister @CasparVeldkamp. Wees erbij. Luister ook naar de speciale vraag die @bob_deen in #247 heeft voor de minister:
bnr.nl/podcast/perestrojkast… 1/2
Hendrik Spiering retweeted
The first known use of the word ‘tween’ to describe an age category was by JRR Tolkien, only in his case it was for a hobbit between the ages of 20 and 33.
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Wat een heerlijk stuk dit.
Het was geweldig om in zijn kantoor in New York te praten met Robert Caro, over zijn biografieën over Lyndon B. Johnson en Robert Moses, en over zijn vriendschap met @koenpetersen en @markrutte.
volkskrant.nl/cs-bed7aa43/
Hendrik Spiering retweeted
Boeiend artikel over de 50.000 jaar oude #rotstekeningen die deze zomer op #Sulawesi werden ontdekt en die het oudst bekende #verhaal ter wereld vormen.
nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/11/13/het…
Hendrik Spiering retweeted
In coming days everyone doing a postmortem to explain why Harris lost, what she did wrong, etc., keep in mind that Trump ran a winning campaign; I.e., it’s not so much she lost than he won.
Analogy: Yankees made errors but the Dodgers outplayed them in World Series. The better candidate/team won.
And avoid deep-root causism:
Trump won because Americans are racists; Harris lost because voters are misogynists
Those are losing side rationalizations.
Also watch out for single causes: crime, abortion, immigration, inflation, wokeness, etc., are all factors.
But be careful of overdetermined causal theories: not all factors matter, or matter equally.
Hendrik Spiering retweeted
Economisch historicus Jan Luiten van Zanden geeft in zijn nieuwe boek een helder overzicht van de man-vrouwverhoudingen door de eeuwen heen. nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/31/vij…
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Just a reminder of how many of the very people persecuted by the Nazis helped defend Germany in the previous war(s). AND another reminder that the Nazis virulent racism hurt their country rather than helped it (bet they would have liked to have all those Einstein types working for them, and not against them too, eh?).
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Geweldige reportage – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In een bos bij Berlijn logeert Arjen van Veelen bij activisten in hun boomhuttendorp. Ze zijn lief en gastvrij – helden misschien zelfs. En toch voelt het bos benauwend.
nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/25/een…
