Art
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.
Politics
Ana Palacio
The Mutating World
Ana Palacio charts the history of the baby boomers and analyses threats to liberal democracy today.
History
Adrienne Clarkson
A Refugee’s Life
The story of how a child of Chinese refugees who came to Canada as a two-year-old became Governor-General.
History
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Time Ticks Away
Gopalkrishna Gandhi reflects on his childhood, his famous grandfather, and the struggle against nuclear armaments.
History
Benjamin Ferencz
Ruminations of the Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
Benjamin Ferencz, last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials, on his life and work.
History
Time and Power
‘Time and Power’ aims to break with the ingrained belief that cyclical conceptions of time were eclipsed by a linear view of time
Culture, Music
An Education in Counterculture
A conversation on counterculture with Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye and Sean Wilentz.
Literature
Bernard-Henri Lévy
A Letter to Jean Deprun
Bernard-Henri Lévy writes to an unlikely hero: his teacher at the École Normale Superieure, Jean Deprun.
Literature, Politics
Aykan Erdemir
Teaching Transgression
Aykan Erdemir writes to his teacher, Nalan Göker, who taught him about rules and when to break them.
Literature
Leon Wieseltier
The Cheese Man
Leon Wieseltier on his first encounter with philosophy in a small Brooklyn delicatessen.
Politics
Kishore Mahbubani
Letter to Mr. S. Rajaratnam
Kishore Mahbubani writes a letter to his teacher, the Singaporean statesman S. Rajaratnam.
Religion, Society
Paradise Lost: The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Literature, Religion
Keynote Marilynne Robinson – Nexus Conference 2018
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Conference 2018
Politics, Religion, Society
Beyond Good and Evil: Paradise Regained?
Politics
Colm Tóibín
Between Laughter and Despair
Colm Tóibín on Europe, the powerlessness of the European institutions and what it means to be European.
Culture
Ágnes Heller
The Human Soul in All Its Moods
Heller on what great works she would have her students read, see and listen to in her ideal school curriculum.
History
Adam Zamoyski
A Letter to My Teacher
Zamoyski writes to his history teacher, who awakened in him ‘a fascination with objects which could help one penetrate the past.’
Politics
Nelofer Pazira
Of Gods and Men
‘Any future revolution in the Arab-Muslim world must be humanist in nature.’
Politics
The World of Freedom
Culture, Politics
Keynote Bernard-Henri Lévy – Nexus Conference 2017
Nexus Lecture 2018 Q&A Margaret Atwood
Nexus Lecture Atwood 2018 introduction Rob Riemen
