Karin Spaink
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Karin Spaink was a Dutch journalist, writer and feminist. She was also a free speech advocate and social critic, who criticized New Age writers and the Church of Scientology.
Spaink in 2015
Spaink in 2006
De Vrije Gedachte chair Van Langevelde honours Spaink as Freethinker of 2015
T-shirt commemorating the legal victory against Scientology
Pim Fortuyn
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Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist, and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.
Karin Spaink
…Vrije Gedachte. Spaink gave the 2018 Mosse Lecture, titled Tussen Grewel en Fortuyn: Identiteit, herzuiling, privilege en verschil (Between Grewel and Fortuyn: Identity, re-pillarification, privilege and difference). Spaink died on 8 May 2026, at the age of 68…
Fortuyn on 4 May 2002, two days before his assassination
Pim Fortuyn with Jan Willem de Pous at a presentation of Thirty-Five Years of SER recommendations (1982)
Fortuyn's house in Rotterdam where he lived from 1998 until his death
After his death a statue was placed at his home in Rotterdam. The statue has since been removed from the property and auctioned off