Netherlands
Letters From the Edge of Empire
A trove of family documents reveals how Dutch-Indonesian families were caught between two worlds as an empire collapsed. A newly independent Indonesia struggled with the boundaries of national identity and, in the Netherlands, new categories were created to pronounce on the “Westernness” of arrivals.
Going Dutch
Budget cuts imposed by the Netherlands’ right-wing government are just the latest in a series of problems plaguing Dutch universities, including debates over English-language instruction. Whether imposed for ideological or economic reasons, the cuts further a populist agenda against higher education as a bastion of internationalism and so-called woke activism.