Propria Cures

Propria Cures (Latin for "Mind your own business") is a Dutch satirical student newspaper, published weekly in Amsterdam. Established in 1890, it is one of the oldest student newspapers in the Netherlands. Its principal subjects are, or have been, modern literature, media corruption and the euthanasia debate in western Europe.

Since its establishment, Propria Cures (colloquially, "PC") has been a forum for freethinkers, bohemians and rising talents. PC specialises in printing things that no one else is willing or able to say. As a result, PC is one of the few journals in post-war Dutch publishing history to have been convicted of blasphemy. In 1965, a PC article referred to Jesus as a "carpenter's son who pulled himself up through self-help". The newspaper was fined 100 guilders.

In 1992, Propria Cures published a photo montage of the writer Leon de Winter lying in a mass grave, expressing the opinion that De Winter was exploiting his Jewish background. PC was convicted in court and had to pay 10,000 guilders in damages as well as publish an apology.

PC employs a large number of guest editors in addition to its regular staff. Its editors have included a number of well-known Dutch writers, media figures and politicians, including the polemicist Menno ter Braak, poet and novelist J. Slauerhoff and former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. The current editors of PC are Tim Meijer, Daan Doesborgh, Walt van der Linden and Arnout Hoogendoorn.

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