
Favorite podcasts
Politics and Political Science
- StukRoodVlees & Stemmen (Dutch)
- Slow Burn
- Transformation of European Politics
- Haagse Zaken (Dutch)
- Vullings & Van der Wulp (Dutch)
History
- Hardcore History
- The rest is history
- Betrouwbare bronnen (Dutch)
Pop culture
- Hit Parade
- Slash Filmcast
- Song Exploder
- Jay & Miles X-plain the X-Men
- Switched on pop
- Michiel Met (Dutch)
General non-fiction
- WeCrash
- The Drop Out
- De Deventer Mediazaak (Dutch)
- Spijkers met koppen (Dutch)
- Wind of Change
- The Missing Crypto Queen
- Business wars
Favorite songs


Television series
- Borgen
- Daredevil
- Game of Thrones
- Good Omens
- The Good Place
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- House of Cards (S1&2)
- How I Met Your Mother
- The Leftovers
- Lost
- The Queen’s Gambit
- Sherlock
- Succession
- Survivor
- West Wing
- Wolverine and the X-men
- Years and Years
Favorite movies
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 300
- Before Sunrise (trilogy)
- Chef
- Children of Men
- Cidade de Deus
- The Dark Knight
- Dear Frankie
- Die Hard
- Donnie Darko
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- Fight Club
- Game night
- Ghostbusters
- The Godfather
- The Goonies
- High Fidelity
- Inception
- Jojo Rabbit
- Juno
- La Grande Bellezza
- Labyrinth
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Margin Call
- Moonrise Kingdom
- No Country For Old Men
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
- Seven
- Spider-Man 2
- Superbad
- Tropic thunder
- Whiplash
- Wonderboys


Favorite books
Novels
- Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
- Max Brooks – World War Z
- Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
- WF Hermans – Het Behouden Huis
- Neil Gaiman – American Gods
- Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Yann Martel – Life of Pi
- George RR Martin – A Song of Ice and Fire (series)
- David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
- Marcel Möring – In Babylon
- Harry Mulisch – The Discovery of Heaven
- Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
- Donna Tartt – The Secret History
- JRR Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings
- Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
- Benedict Wells – The end of loneliness
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
Non-fiction
- Christopher Achen & Larry Bartels – Democracy for realists
- Gabriel Almond & Sidney Verba – The civic culture
- Russell J Dalton – Democratic challenges, democratic choices
- Norman Davies – Europe
- Arend Lijphart – Patterns of democracy: Government forms and performance in thirty-six countries
- Peter Mair – Ruling the void
- Pierre Rosanvallon – Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust
- EE Schattschneider – The semisovereign people: a realist’s view of democracy in America
Childrens’ books
- Thea Beckman – Het helse paradijs
- Tonke Dragt – Torenhoog en mijlen breed
- Michael Ende – Die unendliche Geschichte
- Astrid Lindgren – De gebroeders Leeuwenhart
- JK Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
- Mathilde Stein & Mies van Hout – Bang mannetje
- Robert Swindells – Broeder in de aarde
- Tjibbe Veldkamp & Philip Hopman – Temmer Tom
Comics
- X-Men
(+spin-offs, most notably Captain Britain by Moore/Davis, Excalibur by Davis, Gambit by Nicieza, New Mutants by Wells, Uncanny X-Force by Remender) - Captain America (Brubaker)
- Daredevil (Miller, Bendis)
- Punisher Max (Ennis)
- Spider-Man (JMS, Slott)
- Ultimate Marvel
- Calvin & Hobbes
- Fables
- Y: the last Man