By Zuzanna Mietlinska The story in “Burning” is as simple as complicated. Persistently trivialised yet never-to-be-forgotten. It is a genre mishmash of over two and a half hours, combining the elements of a thriller, a sappy melodrama with psychological motives. It is another creation of widely awarded director Chang-dong Lee,Continue Reading
By Emil Mirchev The Balkans. A place full of contrasts. Relatively well-known by Europeans, forgotten by the rest of the world. Often mystified, the peninsula is associated throughout the centuries in different ways – most recent of all is the vision of corruption and poverty, some decades ago the processContinue Reading
By Alon Küster Introduction In this article, I will examine a specific government’s attempt at limiting the negative outcomes of game theory in practice and on a national scale. Looking at China’s social credit system, I will analyse how it regulates the behaviour of its population by enforcing certain outcomesContinue Reading
By Doga Mether Freedom of the Self The freedom to finally free to explore the open seas of being, is either the greatest gift or the greatest burden. Similarly, to the ocean, humanity has depths, levels and its unexplored abyss. Diving at each level at once is impossible and should not beContinue Reading
By Kinan Ajoub A path is only a path Because feet make it Come, let us make a path Somewhere unknown even to the soil and wind And make it a place that only love can remember Even when we forget, it will remember But, for now, we can forgetContinue Reading
By Lara Kaptein Back again with a new Dutch Politics for Dummies! This time, I will discuss the elections of the 20th of March on the Dutch state level: Provinciale Staten. In these elections, every Dutchie was able to vote for their preferred representative for their province. The voter turn-outContinue Reading
By Lara Kaptein Many of you have been living in the Netherlands, specifically in the Hague, for at least half a year now. Probably many of you also know that even though The Hague is not the capital of the Netherlands, it is the capital in Dutch politics! I willContinue Reading
By Angelina Cvetkovska “Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be about only one thing.” This long winter break I finally read a book which I wouldn’t hesitate to call a favorite. A book to turn back to, read and re-read in orderContinue Reading