De boerka aanmoedigen is als een geassisteerde zelfmoord zonder compassie

door Sietske Bergsma | aug 12, 2018 | Column, Dutch/Nederlands

“De Britse conservatieven stellen een onderzoek in naar opmerkingen van partijprominent Boris Johnson. De oud-minister van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft geschreven dat mensen er in een boerka uitzien als ‘brievenbussen’ en ‘bankovervallers’. Dat leidde tot klachten...

Internet emperors are practicing ‘damnatio memoriae’ on the establishments troublemakers – but will erasing them have effect?

door Sietske Bergsma | aug 9, 2018 | Column, Opinion

Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase literally meaning “condemnation of memory” – in German “Verdammung des Andenkens” – a form of dishonour that could be passed by the Roman Senate on traitors and troublemakers who brought...

Why lies are accepted truths, except when Donald Trump tells them

door Sietske Bergsma | aug 6, 2018 | Opinion, Politics

“Trump is lying more and he is doing it on purpose”, the New Yorker writes in one of many articles online about the number of  lies president Donald Trump has told (“2,140 in his first year, in just the last six months, he has nearly doubled that...

Dissident feminist icon Camille Paglia DESTROYS feminists and ‘bourgeois’ women in times of political correctness: “neurotic behavior is celebrated” (DUTCH)

door Sietske Bergsma | aug 5, 2018 | Books, Dutch/Nederlands, Interview

Dit interview verscheen eerder op ThePostOnline op 26 juni 2017. “Mijn carrière verliep eigenlijk dramatisch”. De Amerikaanse feministe en professor in de Geesteswetenschappen en Mediastudies Camille Paglia (New York, 1947) is de meest onbevreesde en beruchte...

Dissident feminist icon Camille Paglia DESTROYS feminists and ‘bourgeois’ women in times of political correctness: “neurotic behaviour is celebrated”

door Sietske Bergsma | aug 3, 2018 | Books, Interview

I had a phone conversation in June, 2017 with American academic and social critic Camille Paglia (1947). She has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. To be clear. I love this woman, I’ve read her work. So this...