Philosophy
The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Lost in Thought
An excellent example of what it aims to capture: solid, high-quality, splendidly useless thinking in action.
Treasury
Welcome to our digital Treasury. Here we publish some of the best essays from our Dutch journal Nexus in English, reviews of recent books and videos of our events.
Culture, Politics
Apocalypse Now? Causes of Anxiety in our Age
Culture, Politics
Amor Mundi. How to End the Age of Anxiety?
Culture, Politics
Keynote Wole Soyinka, Nexus Conference 2020
Culture, Politics
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Conference 2020
Philosophy
Humberto Beck
The Return of Ivan Illich in Times of Corona
It will depend on us whether the coronavirus will result in a new catastrophe, or in a new beginning.
History
Simon Winder
Goodbye to History
The author of Danubia and Germania shows what we can learn from 20th-century German history.
My Experiences with and Lessons from the Rwandan Genocide
Humanism, Philosophy
George Steiner
The Life of the Mind
Can the life of the mind, the love of truth and beauty, be sustained in a time of materialism and mass democracy?
History
Catherine Nixey
The Evil of Christianity
‘Good’ and ‘evil’ as fundamentally opposed came into the world with Christianity. This wasn’t good.
Literature, Philosophy
The Unnamable Present
A wealth of topics: from Baudelaire to Kafka, Benjamin and Weil; from sacrifice to the sacred, the process of secularization and digital society.
Art, Politics
Being Hans Castorp in Our Time
Religion, Society
When the Gods Remain Silent
Politics, Religion
Götterdämmerung. The Twilight of the Gods
Culture, Politics
Keynote Michael Ignatieff – Nexus Conference 2019
Culture, Politics
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Conference 2019
Philosophy
Bernard-Henri Lévy & Aleksandr Dugin
The Return of Settembrini and Naphta in the 21st Century
Lévy and Dugin fight for the soul of Europe in the spirit of Thomas Mann’s Settembrini and Naphta.
Music
Magic Mountain Music
Culture, Politics, Society
A Magic Mountain Conversation: On Culture and Politics, Life and Death
Politics, Society
The Return of Settembrini and Naphta in the 21st Century
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Symposium 2019
Philosophy
Antonio Damasio
Arcadia, But Not for Long
What should we choose: ‘Broadway Boogie-Woogie’, colorful, edgy, expanding modern urbanity – or a rustic hill overlooking an Alpine lake?
Literature
G.K. Chesterton
A Defence of China Shepherdesses
There are ideal conceptions and real men in every calling.
Art