David de Bruijn

Without predicting or prejudging the escalating Harvard-DHS conflict: if there is any foreign student in the US who feels worried and would benefit from specific attention of a foreign faculty member in the US— feel very free to reach out to me here, or at [email protected].

And the first drawing of Stonehenge was made by a man from Ghent, Lucas de Heere, in 1573.

Ook in woelig water zullen wij handhaven! 🧡

I initially only planned to read the chapter on Borodino in the Kutuzov book, for some context. Anyway, I read the entire thing. Both these books are wonderful. Must haves for those interested

I gave a lecture on wisdom in the rotunda at UVA and it was one of the coolest experiences of my life.

this is, in effect, a european vacation. acquire cheese.

“Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet—may'st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.” —John Keats, The Fall of Hyperion

Hoe maakt de VS militaire munities? Wat voor figuren — en wat voor business case — zit er achter wat Europa 🇳🇱/🇪🇺 aan gaan schaffen voor 10 miljard? Uitstekend als altijd met ⁦@AaronBMacLean⁩. 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sch…

Avond ronde kwelder #Schiermonnikoog

Milan's Dutch Trio 🇳🇱

Depressing to see what's happening at Chicago right now.

I am absolutely elated beyond belief to share that the International Vladimir Nabokov Society has awarded my PhD dissertation, “A Triptych of Bottomless Light: Repetition, Originality & Transcendence in Nabokov’s Pale Fire,” the 2024 Zoran Kuzmanovich Prize!

📣🔴 I’m in contact with Druze and Christian families who lost loved ones during last week’s Islamist attacks in Suwayda. If any journalists are interested in speaking directly with people on the ground, I’m happy to help connect you.

His thesis, what became "The Concept of a Legal System", was tremendously difficult. I had to put wet towels around my head whenever he turned in a piece, which he did with great regularity. It was a brilliant piece of work. -- HLA Hart

Rough day for the “analytic philosophy isn’t just arguing about shrimp welfare while kids starve” crowd

“As Proust says, [literature] opens up a kind of foreign language within language, which is…a becoming-other of language, a minorization of this major language, a delirium that carries it off, a witch’s line that escapes the dominant system.” — Deleuze, “Literature and Life”

in musea in J'lem, several *entire* synagogues were transported---among them some 🇳🇱 Sephardic ones from South America/Caribbean.