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Jewish Déjà Vu - We Are Back in Europe of 1933
A well-known Jewish joke goes like this:
Jakob is walking through a Berlin park on a Sabbath afternoon in 1933 when he spots his friend Samuel sitting on a bench, deeply engrossed in Der Stürmer, the Nazis’ notorious propaganda paper. Horrified, Jakob cries out: “Samuel, what on earth are you doing reading Der Stürmer? Have you become a masochist?” In that sense, we seem to have returned to 1933.
Silvain Salamon
May 153 min read
Belgian Housing Market, Flemish Construction Shift, Immigration and EPC Energy Label Policy - The Housing Crisis as Russian Roulette
Belgian housing market, Flemish construction shift, immigration and housing pressure, and EPC energy label policy are increasingly colliding in a way that makes housing in Belgium feel like Russian roulette. The Belgian housing market is cracking under a combination of scarcity, regulation and immigration. The Flemish construction shift, often referred to as the “concrete stop,” aims to protect open space. Immigration increases population pressure. European energy label polic
Redactie / Editors
May 156 min read
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - Judaism and Modernity
Last night, Rome’s “Il Pitigliani” Cultural Centre hosted the third conference in the Lechaim – To Life! series, a journey into Jewish identity. The evening was devoted to a paradigmatic figure of contemporary Judaism: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - thinker, rabbi, moral philosopher, British public intellectual, and tireless interpreter of the Torah.
Lorenzo Cianti
May 1411 min read
Hamas, October 7, and Israeli Victims: How Belgian Media Turned the Story Upside Down
The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 was not a normal escalation and not a tragic incident in an endless conflict. It was an organised terrorist attack on civilians: on families, young people, the elderly, women and children. Yet over the past years, Belgian media have shifted the moral focus of their reporting from the very beginning. Hamas, October 7, the hostages and the Israeli victims did not remain central. Instead, the focus became almost exclusively Israel as the alleg
Redactie / Editors
May 136 min read
Ayn Rand and the civilisation of the enlightenment
Ayn Rand is not among the authors Stefano Bruno Galli usually engages with in his research. The professor at the University of Milan stated this frankly at the beginning of the fifth lecture of the John Galt School, thanking the students for giving him the opportunity to approach a thinker who is enjoying renewed attention in Italy as well. In recent years, a kind of “Rand mania” has spread: readers, scholars and academics have rediscovered in Rand’s thought an unexpected fre
Lorenzo Cianti
May 128 min read
Zuhal Demir and the Politicisation of Universities
Zuhal Demir was sworn in as Flemish Minister of Education in September 2024. After twenty months in office, it is time to make a preliminary assessment of her record in service of education in Flanders, particularly her attitude toward Flemish universities. Let us begin with her own words on why she entered politics. In an interview on June 29, 2025, she stated that she would no longer allow herself to be constrained by party colours or political positions, claiming instead t
Marc Cogen
May 113 min read
Global Capital, Private Investment, Venture Capital and the Innovation Economy - Why America Still Pulls the Money Belgium Wants
Why does global capital keep crossing oceans toward the United States? Why does private investment so often choose New York, Silicon Valley, Austin or Boston before Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent or Liège? Why does venture capital still see the American market as the natural home of the innovation economy? For Belgium, and for Europe more broadly, these are not abstract economic questions. They go to the heart of our prosperity, our industrial future and our ability to build the ne
Redactie / Editors
May 105 min read
Belgium’s Moral Crusade Against Israel Has a Price – Stop (H)arming Israel
There are moments when a government must stand firm. But there are also moments when it mainly poses as morally superior, while reality is more complex and dangerous than a press conference in Brussels. Belgium’s policy banning the export and transit of defense material to Israel increasingly falls into the second category. It is presented as principled, humane, and legally cautious. In reality, it risks turning into symbolic politics, selective outrage, and strategic self-ha
Redactie / Editors
May 96 min read
Speech upon receiving a short story collection about the consequences of the Gaza war in the Netherlands
Thank you for this invitation. I am honoured to receive this anthology. "Woe to those who call evil good." Today we celebrate Liberation Day. Before I left this morning, I hung out the Dutch flag. But with a heavy heart. Liberation. Freedom. Do we still have it? Does the country that was fought and suffered for still exist? Or are we slowly waking up to realise that the idea we have of that country - freedom, fundamental rights, tolerance - has been taken for granted for too
Keyvan Shahbazi
May 76 min read
More People, Less Prosperity - How Migration Erodes Our Per-Capita Income
Europe is growing. The economies of Belgium and the rest of the Union produce more year after year. GDP rises, headlines report progress, and politicians proudly point to growth figures. But there is one number that rarely takes center stage in that debate: income per resident. And that number tells a very different story.Imagine a country with ten residents and an economy of 100. Income per capita: 10. Now five new residents arrive, and the economy grows to 112. Sounds like
Redactie / Editors
May 74 min read
Weverian Silence
For years, Bart De Wever said that this country is fundamentally broken, that Belgium doesn't work, and that Flanders is systematically undermined by the federal compromise model. He led the N-VA — a party whose very name carries the message: New Flemish Alliance. Not Belgian, but Flemish. Many Flemish people followed him, hoping he would remain true to that principle. But today we must ask ourselves: is Flanders still his priority?
Alexandra S. Villers
May 62 min read
Energy policy in Belgium - 1800 companies waiting for an electricity connection
Anyone who wants to expand or start a business in Belgium today, electrify a factory, or install a charging station soon discovers that energy policy is not a policy paper, but a power socket with a connection that never arrives. Grid congestion, electrification, competitiveness, and energy policy: these are the four words that will determine in the coming years whether Belgium remains an industrial country or becomes a museum of good intentions.
The paradox is painful
Redactie / Editors
May 66 min read
The Belgian secret service was no longer a secret to Beijing
In February 2025, a report shocked Belgium and the entire European intelligence community. Chinese hackers had had access to the email system of the State Security Service (VSSE) for years. For three years, Beijing was reading along with Belgian State Security. Not figuratively, but literally. Between 2021 and May 2023, Chinese hackers intercepted around ten percent of all incoming and outgoing emails from the VSSE, our intelligence service, which was no longer much of a secr
Thijs Jansen
May 55 min read
The moral meaning of entrepreneurship
In the fourth lecture of the John Galt School, Adriano Gianturco- Professor of Political Science at the Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais in Belo Horizonte - addressed a pivotal issue for understanding capitalism in its moral dimension: entrepreneurship. The topic raises far-reaching questions: what legitimises profit? What is the relationship between property, risk, and responsibility? Why should a free society honour those who produce, invest, innovate, organize s
Lorenzo Cianti
May 46 min read
The Quantum Growth of Global Antisemitism - A World on Edge
The horrific events of yesterday have sent a seismic shock through Jewish communities worldwide, with a chilling resonance here in Belgium. In Northwest London’s Golders Green, a 45-year-old man was arrested after allegedly hunting for "visibly Jewish" individuals, leaving two men—aged 34 and 76—with serious stab wounds. Simultaneously, across the Atlantic in Los Angeles, a Jewish man was brutally assaulted and nearly strangled outside the Adas Torah synagogue in Pico-Roberts
Shifra Senderowicz
May 14 min read
Energy policy in Belgium – Privatising the energy supply to French state-owned companies, closing nuclear power plants, paying compensation, and ultimately reversing everything at a cost of billions
Belgium is once again in the process of making a new 180-degree turn.
From dependence on France’s Engie / Electrabel, to a nuclear phase-out, and then to the possible reacquisition of nuclear control by the Belgian state.
The fact that the current government under Prime Minister Bart De Wever wants to bring control back into Belgian hands is commendable. However, previous governments have saddled our country with billions in unnecessary costs and ended our energy independe
Redactie / Editors
Apr 304 min read
Objectivist Ethics Against the Morality of Sacrifice
In the third lecture of the John Galt School, journalist Stefano Magni explored one of the most demanding aspects of Objectivist philosophy: ethics. As long as the discussion remains on the terrain of opposition to collectivist ideologies or the defence of laissez-faire capitalism, Ayn Rand is regarded by scholars as one of the great political minds of the twentieth century. When, however, the conversation shifts to the controversial subject of rational selfishness, academic
Lorenzo Cianti
Apr 256 min read
The Hague Chooses Political Games Over the National Interest - What the Collapse of the Emergency Asylum Measures Act Really Means
For much of the past week, the news was dominated by one story: the Emergency Asylum Measures Act failing in the Senate. What should have been an initial step in the right direction toward a stricter and more realistic migration policy ended instead in mudslinging between politicians on the left and right. Once again, it became painfully clear that The Hague, like so many political elites across Europe, is primarily preoccupied with itself and only marginally concerned with t
Daniël de Liever
Apr 245 min read
Former Anders chairwoman Gwendolyn Rutten appeared yesterday on VRT’s De Afspraak to comment on Israel’s participation in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest
Former Anders chairwoman Gwendolyn Rutten appeared yesterday on VRT’s De Afspraak to comment on Israel’s participation in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest
Redactie / Editors
Apr 234 min read
Redactie / Editors
Apr 230 min read
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