Favorite podcasts

Politics and Political Science

  • StukRoodVlees & Stemmen (Dutch)
  • Slow Burn
  • Transformation of European Politics
  • Haagse Zaken (Dutch)

History

  • Hardcore History
  • The rest is history
  • Betrouwbare bronnen (Dutch)

Pop culture

  • Hit Parade
  • Filmcast
  • Song Exploder

General non-fiction

  • WeCrash
  • The Drop Out
  • De Deventer Mediazaak (Dutch)
  • Wind of Change
  • The Missing Crypto Queen


Favorite albums and artists

Acda & De Munnik – Acda & De Munnik
Air – Moon Safari
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
Jeff Buckley – Grace
CSN – CSN
Miles Davis – Kind of blue
Elisa – Asile’s world
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Boudewijn de Groot – Voor de overlevenden
Johan – Pergola
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Kula Shaker – Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
Matchbox 20 – Yourself or someone like you
Oasis – Morning glory
Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie
Pearl Jam – Ten
R.E.M. – Automatic for the people
Paul Simon – Graceland
Simon & Garfunkel – Concert in Central Park
Toploader – Onka’s big moka
Eddie Vedder – Into the wild
The Verve – Urban Hymns
Kamasi Washington – The Epic

No specific albums that stands out:
the Beatles
Kate Bush
the Decemberists
Paolo Nutini
Frank Turner
Wolf Alice


Television series

  • The Bear
  • Borgen
  • Community
  • Daredevil
  • Game of Thrones
  • 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
  • Station Eleven
  • Succession
  • Survivor
  • West Wing
  • Wolverine and the X-men
  • Years and Years


Favorite movies

  • 1917
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Odyssey
  • 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
  • Omar El Akkad – American War
  • WF Hermans – Het Behouden Huis
  • Neil Gaiman – American Gods
  • Paul Lynch – Prophet Song
  • 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 (and various other books)
  • 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
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