Colleague Paul Bosman interviewed philosopher and sociologist Gabriel van den Brink about his new book "The topicality of the archaic book." In his book Van den Brink makes a long detour to better understand our present time. We see a lot of despondency and powerlessness in modern times, but in the past people faced enormous challenges. According to him, modern man is out of balance. Thinking about our evolutionary history can ensure a better balance between the physical, social and spiritual dimensions of human existence.

Our colleague Ronald van Steden wrote an article in Skepter's summer song about what is playing behind social displeasure. There are negative sentiments in society about roughness, hardening, declining social cohesion, increasing insecurity and economic downturn. What does this mean? How much concern do we have to worry about? And what could we do?

During the Socires-program "Young Leaders in Ecology 2024-2025" ambitious young workers discussed in-depth questions about ecology, society, culture and personal values. The New Platform We published a short presentation of their conversation with theologian and co-founder of the Party for the Animals Marianne Thieme.