Moderator Chris Kijne delivered the following introduction to Daniel Ziblatt, one of the autors of How Democracies Die. Ziblatt gave an alarming analysis of the collapse of various democracies in recent history, and compared them to the state of the US government today.
In this fourth and final blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing the city as a symbol of excess and decline.
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On January 26th, Overseas Americans Remember (OAR) will sponsor the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute and Dinner at the Hotel Den Haag-Wassenaar. The commemoration will feature a number of distinguished speakers as well as music integral to the civil rights movement. For more information, please visit this website.
The Dutch government is actively rebranding the country as ‘the Netherlands’, rather than ‘Holland’, writes Mariel Padilla in The New York Times. The move is aimed at enhancing the country’s image abroad and at redirecting tourism away from the provinces Noord- and Zuid-Holland to other parts of the country.