Should we ban the Burqa?

There are a lot of different points being made as to why we should ban the Burqa[1]. Here is why none of these arguments look appealing to me. Listen to the podcast

Hypocrites

On this 11th of January was the march in Paris in remembrance of the terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The demonstration intended to not only show sympathy with the family and friends of the victims, but to also underline to principle of freedom of speech. Bearing that in mind, we have to […]

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,200 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]

“It’s not expensive; it’s paid by the state.”

On the 6th of November, French President François Hollande (PS) gave a 90 minutes interview on the occasion of the half time of his mandate. During this interview, he managed to summarise everything that is wrong with the political system of today, in one simple sentence.

6 reasons to legalise all drugs

‘Drugs are bad and should therefore be banned’ is a statement that has influenced our society tremendously over the last decades. Prohibition of so called illegal drugs has become such a factor that we even have a name for it: The War on Drugs. This term originates from the conservative US President Richard Nixon who […]

How the free market regulates ‘hate speech’

Ever since the internet had a major breakthrough, it has become easier for individuals to spread their opinions expeditiously to a large audience. This has also simplified propagating ignorant and hateful ideas, and has by that grown the number of people advocating a government solution for this issue. Although it seems far easier to simply […]

Visiting Sweden OR ‘Calm down it could be worse’

I guess you know that feeling when you are visiting a country for the first time and insist on taking a neutral stance about culture and habits, you know this ‘well I guess they just do things differently here’-approach. I must say that I really tried that when I traveled to Umeå (in the north […]