30 May 2022
Johan Leman
On 5 May, I published an Opinion here about the predictable shortages in education. Add to that the predictable, ever-growing shortages in childcare. What do governments do? In both cases, […]
20 May 2022
Johan Leman
“Brussels struggles with the heat. It can be three degrees hotter on average in the metropolis than in the countryside. But it is the people in Brussels with the lowest […]
18 May 2022
Johan Leman
Brussels has an enormous potential of candidate (sub)top sportsmen and sportswomen. It could also become a city with the greatest possible variety of sports, which in itself could be very […]
14 May 2022
Johan Leman
At the end of his 1962 book, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan predicted that in the very near future, new technologies would supplant the printed word and the culture that […]
10 May 2022
Johan Leman
An anthropological reading of some of the results of “De Stemming” (2022), as found in the media. In anthropology, there are two main criteria to describe ethnic self-awareness and to […]
9 May 2022
Johan Leman
Once again, something about the planned Dockside residential tower near Place Sainctelette in Brussels… this time encouraged by the fact that both the Molenbeek municipality and the Molenbeek co-chairman of […]
5 May 2022
Johan Leman
A Brussels college of higher education that, a few years ago, still attracted 120 students for the course that trained someone to become a teacher, today only attracts 20 students. […]
3 May 2022
Johan Leman
“The psyche of the masses and the psyche of a child show very similar reactions. You really cannot imagine the ideas that feed the masses and set them in motion […]
25 April 2022
Johan Leman
It is interesting to put numbers to the phenomenon of growing old in Brussels for people born outside of Belgium. Brussels residents born in a country outside the EU: Over-60s […]
20 April 2022
Johan Leman
The Brussels Region is celebrated – rightly so – as a young region, the youngest in Belgium. This is a good thing. It points to an enormous potential and to […]