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

  • In Defense of Liberalism (Review Of “Cynical Theories”)

    It is a boring platitude that history has produced its share of intellectual folly. Jean Jacques Rousseau, for example, believed that humans are born a “blank slate” and only corrupted as they grow up in modern society, an assertion he could have known to be insane merely by paying a few hours of attention to…

    Mark Vandenberg
  • White Fragility

    A Tale of Two Narratives: Review of “White Fragility”

    Future historians will be puzzled about ‘White Fragility’ and other such works, and the Orwellian moral panics they helped spur which are ravaging our civilization at the moment.

    Mark Vandenberg