This week, on Thursday 13 December, Room for Discussion will host an interview under the title “Zorg: een gezonde markt?” – Healthcare: a healthy market? The interview will be held in Dutch and the guests are Georgette Fijneman, CEO of the insurer Zilveren Kruis, and Ernst van Koesveld, director of Healthcare Insurances at the Ministry
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Almost a month ago, on October 31st, Jordan Peterson was a guest at Room for Discussion at the University of Amsterdam. It is probably the biggest event Room for Discussion has held since its inception, and sparked controversy inside and outside UvA. The only thing Peterson’s followers and opponents seem to agree upon, is to
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A Review of The Second Sex
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”, argues Simone de Beauvoir in her magnum opus, The Second Sex. Womanhood as a social and cultural construct seems obvious today, but back in 1949, when the book was published, her ideas were rated highly controversial. As a matter of fact, the Vatican put The Second
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A Brief Analysis about Mexico's Polarized Society.
Classism: (noun) Prejudice against people belonging to a particular social class. (Oxford Dictionary)
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The Interview on Refugee Crisis
In our increasingly interconnected world, migration is one of its major characteristics. It has turned into a focus point of analysis everywhere, especially in European countries. The massive arrival of asylum seekers opened a polarised debate. Among the public, there is overreaction and fear due to a string of misconceptions and the lack of information
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When I read in the newspaper that more than half of the EU’s total coal-fired power stations are losing money, I get the feeling that we are doing something right. Air pollution and climate change policies have been pushing coal-fired electricity stations down the drain, and Europe is increasingly setting stricter rules and higher carbon
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