Hans-MartientenNapel’s Newsletter

The Right Is Radicalizing

“The Right is radicalizing” is, of course, a standard phrase in mainstream academia and media.

Mar 21 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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February 2026

Blogpost, “Towards Covenantal Pluralism in Dutch Citizenship Education?”

For the Portico Blog of the Institute for Global Engagement, I wrote about why the formulation of so-called core objectives for citizenship education in…

Feb 19 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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Vindication of the “English School” of the Law of Nations: Recent Findings from the Concordats

Following previous guest posts by Prof.

Feb 2 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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January 2026

A book recommendation

From the moment I was allowed to open the package at Christmas, I have enjoyed reading Volume I of The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition…

Jan 10 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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December 2025

An alternative constitutional approach to asylum migration

On December 9, I was invited, together with migration researcher Dr.

Dec 13, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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November 2025

Contribution to special issue on "Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West"

The Review of Faith & International Affairs has just published a special issue on “Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West.”

Nov 22, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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October 2025

A blessing in disguise? On the Dutch election results

This morning, I was invited by DIQIT, the bachelor’s study association for encyclopedia and philosophy of law, to join two colleagues from the Faculty…

Oct 30, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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Understanding the potentially ‘defining force of twenty-first-century constitutionalism’

In a recent book chapter, Ran Hirschl notes that ‘it is hard to overstate the incredible intellectual renaissance of comparative constitutional law over…

Oct 6, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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September 2025

Human rights: Natural, or international law?

Following previous guest posts by Prof.

Sep 8, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel and Aaron Rhodes

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August 2025

What’s In a Name? On "Being Conservative"

I don’t consider myself necessarily a conservative, if only because listening to Matthew Continetti’s The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American…

Aug 4, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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July 2025

A forbidden opinion

On April 1, I participated in a panel discussion organized by my Leiden colleague, Dr.

Jul 7, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel

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June 2025

Canada: A partially postliberal constitutional monarchy

Following last month’s perspective on liberalism in Japan, this month, we turn our attention to Canada with the help of a contribution from Dr.

Jun 2, 2025 • Hans-Martien ten Napel and Paul Allen

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