The very same people ordering untrained federal agents to shoot at protesters have very strong thoughts about how Europe should be run. Maybe they should think less about Europe and more about Minnesota.

My Charlemagne column this week: REQUIEM The Atlantic alliance, storied as it might be, is increasingly unworthy of the name. It is dead, or dying. Europe is going through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression -- and soon acceptance. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.

RIP

Nieuw Recht inzake Persoonlijje Zekerheden: te laat voor onder kerstboom maar nu al te bestellen voor Valentijn corporatefinancelab.org/2025/12/24/c...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I get the sense from my students that A.I. feels like the sour icing on an already bitter cake,” Colleen Kinder writes. “Adults need to step up and set parameters so that it’s not on these kids to self-regulate.”

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Ik deed een poging tot synopsis van mijn studiedomein, het insolventierecht. Of toch wat ik er van ken. corporatefinancelab.org/2025/12/01/i...

Breaking news

Breaking News: Brazil’s top court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year prison term for a failed plot to stay in power. nyti.ms/3LSSs2S

Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Ze zouden Belgische begrotingsonderhandelingen moeten laten erkennen door de Unesco als immaterieel erfgoed.

As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf. Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.

Bang aftellen naar de start van winterterreur in Brussel

Frederik Anseel | Terug naar het klooster met AI www.tijd.be/opinie/algem...

Waarom zegt niemand dat de verering van het Heilig Hart begon in Sint-Truiden met de heilige Lutgard? www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

Een buurt informatie netwerk beschermt blijkbaar Kleine Brogel. Dacht iemand al aan het mobiliseren van de duiven van onze vele liefhebbers?

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“In my experience, academics and administrators have just not reckoned with how deeply unpopular they are with the public—and in a democratic society, that matters.” —an interview with Mark Lilla

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Il est 7 heures, Bruxelles s’éveille.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Professor Edward Morrison (Columbia Law School) on the Law and Economics of Restructuring and Insolvency ~ Dieter Heremans Lectures series in Law & Economics 2025 at KU Leuven corporatefinancelab.org/2025/10/02/p...

Problems now, bigger ones ahead.

‘Colleges and universities still evince many faults and inequities, but they are more intellectually and culturally diverse, and more accommodating to free expression and social tolerance, than ever before. That’s why they’re under attack.’

Morning walk

‘Houser left Texas for a new teaching position at The University of Antwerp in Belgium. And it didn’t come without sacrifice. Learning Dutch, taking a pay cut and understanding an entirely new system were just some of the challenges she is having to navigate.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Galgenberg

Another 2030 Belgian bicentenary goal is dropped. The historic scaffolding on the Brussels Law Courts won't be fully removed until 2035.

knuppel - hoenderhok www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

This is fucking wild man

Me dunkt dat een slaagcijfer van 25% in eerste bachelor een grotere sociale drempel vormt dan een toelatingsproef. Ja, niet iedereen heeft zelfde kansen bij zo’n proef, maar is dat dan anders bij een eerste bach met een selectiefunctie?

Godzijdank voor de ‘maar’.

It's open doors at the Temple of Human Passions in the Cinquantenaire Park. 7 days a week and there are deckchairs.

Thing I am an absolute complete total reactionary about: there has not actually been invented a better model of conveying information in a learning environment than the basic structure of a traditional lecture. A speaker standing in some sort of unique focal point for the attention of listeners...

Fake News Museum

Blogged. How the EU's Omnibus proposal creates uncertainty for business and claimants alike: The conflict of laws aspects of the proposed changes to the CS3D. gavclaw.com/2025/06/06/h...

We’re saddened by the death of Edmund White, a longtime TYR contributor. In 2007, we published “A Good Sport,” a story steeped in his signature blend of erotic memory and comic precision. We’re working to digitize more of his work from our archives. yalereview.org/article/edmu...

Edmund White (1940-2025): one of the few writers of whom I have read every book