Diederik Boomsma is a political advisor to the Christian Democrats in Amsterdam (CDA). He is also a freelance journalist and editor. Formerly, he was an editor of Opinio, a popular weekly opinion magazine in the Netherlands.
Western Suttee: Against a ‘Right’ to be Killed
On March 30, 2011, a team of doctors euthanized a Belgian couple at their request. The 83-year-old man suffered from terminal prostate cancer. His 78-year-old wife, although suffering from severe rheumatism, was not terminally ill. But she did not want to live with-out her husband. This became the first official, public instance of co-euthanasia in Western Europe. The death announcement in the newspaper stated that they “choose to end it…
‘Yellow Ants’, Fundamentalists, and Cowboys: An Interview with Rèmi Brague
In this interview we speak with the French intellectual, Rémi Brague, about his life and work. The question of whether…