Dirk VerhofstadtDirk Verhofstadt is a professor at Ghent University (Belgium). He is the author of about twenty books on politics, political philosophy and history. He wrote about the history of liberalism, the year 1914 as the start of the First World War, and the ubious role of Pius XII during the Second World War. His research focuses mainly on the history of the Holocaust and the danger of the extreme right. Read More Read Less