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With my reading recommendations, I aim to stimulate your mental appetite with some tasty food-for-thought. Together, we look at systemic trends as well as at fundamental social, political, economic, psychological and, philosophical questions.
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Ten Reads to Help Navigate 2021
As we leap into the new year, I'd like to share the 10 readings from 2020 that I’ve found particularly helpful to make sense of the...
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The Authoritarian Menace: Analyses and Answers
Dear friends, It's time to pick up my reading recommendations and I want to re-start with a beautifully uplifting topic: The continued...
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The Bigger Picture(s) of the European Elections
Over the past three days, European citizens in 28 countries have been called to vote in what's considered to be the most important...
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The Authoritarian Challenge
Is it too simplistic to say that citizens of democracies across the globe are having to make fundamental choices between liberal &...
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Nine Recommended Reads on Nine Big Issues
Nine highly-recommended reads on nine key challenges that should keep our political, social, and philosophical minds busy these days: We...
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Twenty Political Reads to Help You Steer the Troubled Waters of 2019 (2/2)
Where can find guidance out of the dangerous, bloody mess of chauvinist, populist, and authoritarian politics? Which political values can...
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Twenty Political Reads to Help You Steer the Troubled Waters of 2019 (1/2)
How can we make sense of politics when major democracies slide into the hands of demagogues populists, and authoritarians who erode...
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Ten Reads On the Pursuit of Happiness
How to lead a good life? We spend years in school, learning technical skills, but are pretty much alone in figuring out the most...
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Ten Readings on Homo Sapiens and Our Role in Nature
Last month, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a data-rich report with an urgent message: At current...
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A dozen readings to delve deep into Europe
In eight months, Europeans will head to the polls and elect a new EU-parliament. Times are turbulent. Nationalist and populist movements...
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Ivo's Recommended Reads #5/2018
Happy Weekend, dear friends - I hope these reads will keep your beautiful minds well fed! Ivo The moral case for genetically engineering...
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Ivo's Recommended Reads #4/2018
Happy Sunday, dear friends! Here is some tasty food for thought to keep your beautiful neurons fired up on this Sunday afternoon and...
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Ivo's Recommended Reads #3/2018
Happy Sunday, dear friends. May these readings keep your beautiful minds well nourished: 1) Honouring Simone Veil. 2) The terrible toll...
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Ivo's Recommended Reads #2 2018
Happy Sunday, dear friends! Here are my reading recommendations for this weekend and the up-coming weeks on The Case for Pluralism and...
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Ivo's Recommended Reads #1/2018
Happy Sunday, dear friends! Here’s some tasty food for thought to sweeten the rest of your weekends and to provide you with some mental...
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