Author: Dina-Perla Portnaar

Dina-Perla Portnaar is a small business owner of a global agency, a critical thinker, and an author. Born in 1985, she escaped a restrictive upbringing, a journey she chronicles in her book, Exodus uit de Vuurtoren. Her philosophical novel, Memos from the Edge, includes ideas of her own philosophy called humanecy. She combines deep, free, and critical thinking with storytelling on morality, ethics, and integrity.
Dina-Perla Portnaar25/02/2026

We need a new heart

In my work, I don’t act as a jurist or as a spokesperson for a […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar19/02/2026

The last pillar: How new tax rules unmake the Netherlands

Nations rarely unravel through a single dramatic act. They erode when the foundations of trust, […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar07/02/2026

God isn’t a moral bookkeeper but a living relationship

God is trapped in the mental constructions we ourselves have erected. God does not need […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar01/02/2026

Justice for Orelha: Euthanasia for animal abusers & killers now

I want an international law implementing the immediate death penalty for people, young and old, […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar28/01/2026

My dignity doesn't live in imposed unity, but in the right to refuse representation

I've never attended the main Holocaust Memorial Service in Amsterdam; not once in my life. […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar20/01/2026

Why the American immigration apparatus is a warning for Europe

Across Europe, there’s a persistent, comforting belief that what has taken shape in the United […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar19/01/2026

A new year without silence is merely a continuation of the same noise

Whoever enters the new year without reordering attention doesn’t move through time, but quietly disappears […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar01/01/2026

New Year’s Eve teaches that collective emotion is preferable to solitary doubt

New Year’s Eve always appears as a break without consequence, and a sanctioned eruption of […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar25/12/2025

When the cathedral splinters: A reconsideration of the liberal imagination and the rise of humanecy

The liberal imagination today resembles a magnificent temple whose vaulted ceilings still inspire awe even […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar14/12/2025

Empathy is often framed as an endless resource we must pour into others

The saying goes: the moment you stop trying to please everyone is the moment your […]
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