Bouke S. Nagel

Bouke likes to read and to write. Over the past years he wrote several contributions for Newropeans Magazine and OVI-Magazine about the EU, democracy and contemporary issues such as populism.



	What is left to believe in? by Bouke S. Nagel
	The Subsidy Society by Bouke S. Nagel Over the past years many books, movies and documentaries appeared about the financial crisis and the state of contemporary society in the West. I am thinking of writers and commentators like Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Michael Lewis and Jim Roger
	The role of politicians in government by Bouke S. Nagel Suppose that one day a stranger knocks on your door. He or she shows you a legal document which resembles a novel. You open the booklet and look at legal mumbo jumbo of which you comprehend nothing. Then, the stranger requests your signature in th

	Star Trek, Star Wars and populism by Bouke S. Nagel This year, Bas Heijne, a writer for Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, ventured deep into populist territory and wrote a book about it called “Do we need to love one another?” At the beginning of his book he states that there is somethin
	The Buddha complex by Bouke S. Nagel A few years ago I met a grandmother in the small town of Davos in Switzerland. She, like me, enjoyed a debate during the World Economic Forum of 2009. When she noticed that I was able to produce some sentences in Swiss German she decided that I wa