The Free Dutchman

  • The Dutch (Or “Dutch”) Became World News Yesterday

    I’m too lazy to write a proper post today after a long week of work, tweeting, and paying way more attention to the elections than was good for my mental health. I’ll have more to say about Tuesday’s elections in the next coming weeks. Instead, allow me to embed and quote my tweet regarding a…

    Mark Vandenberg

  • “Verward” Or Not “Verward” — That’s (Not) the Question

    While the U.S. is gearing up for the final stretch towards Election Day, a terrorist incident in the Netherlands last week underscored the need for a serious reduction of mass immigration on both sides of the Atlantic. In yet another of the now infamous “lone wolf” knife attacks haunting the Old Continent, a 22-year-old man…

    Mark Vandenberg
  • Contempt - The Free Dutchman Review of Arthur C. Brooks "Love Your Enemies"

    Renewal

    It’s time to revive this blog again after three years of inactivity. A lot has happened, and I’d wager much of it already predicted, or at least hinted at, right here. Riots in the United Kingdom, Israel’s own ‘9/11’ on 10/7, the contemptible antisemitic protests throughout much of the West in 10/7’s wake, the implosion…

    Mark Vandenberg

  • No, White Terrorism Is Not a Greater Threat Than Islamic Terrorism

    The fumes hadn’t cleared from the Manchester bomb site before the Left moved on to a threat apparently much graver than that posed by Jihadis. You see, in the same week Salman Ramadan Abedi blew himself to pieces, taking 22 others with him, a couple of deranged white guys back home in the U.S. between them…

    Mark Vandenberg

  • Europe As the New Israel

    I’ve got to thank the Islamic crazies for one thing: This time I woke up with the news, whereas last time around I went to bed with it, so at least I’m spared the morning hangover from too many glasses of scotch today. But that’s the only silver lining I can think of at the moment.

    Mark Vandenberg

  • So Now What?

    As the French were licking their wounds, the question in the title above was posed to me on social media by a dear friend of old, who expressed his fear that the French might invoke NATO’s Article 5 and that, consequently, he might himself be drafted into the Dutch military, like the good old days before the…

    Mark Vandenberg

  • We Have Ourselves To Blame

    As I sit here safely on my living room sofa following the horrifying developments in Paris from far away, on TV, the internet and social media, I’ll confess I’m as much in shock about these terrorist attacks as the next guy. I feel for the French, who saw (as it stands) over 150 of their sons,…

    Mark Vandenberg