What Makes Someone Intelligent?
Who is more intelligent: (1) a construction worker voting for a progressive, responsible and tolerant party or (2) a mathematical whizkid working at a bank and voting for a party whose main goal it is...
View ArticleElections and the Duty to be Genuine
Voting: the only legitimate manner in a democratic society for distributing power. The question is: how do we want to distribute this power? Do we want liberals in charge and hope for the government to...
View Article‘Moral Logic': a Guide for Political Decision Making?
Modal logic is – as far as I am concerned – all about what might possibly be the case (alethic logic) or about what we know (epistemic logic), but not about what we should or should not do. That is:...
View ArticleShould State Media Stop Sharing Jihadi Propaganda-messages?
On the 23th of September 2014, the Dutch state television broadcasted a video-message of a jihadist in Syria. In this message he calls for his ‘Dutch brothers’ to support him in the war Islamic State...
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Why Polls are a Danger to Democracy
Does this poll reflect the true preferences of the Dutch population? It is 13 March 2017, and the intermediate polls of the Dutch election suggest that it is going to be a close call between the Dutch...
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