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Viktor Orbán the defiant
It was expected that Viktor Orbán would not change course and would continue his “war of independence” against the “incompetent bureaucrats in Brussels,” but the vehemence of his attacks surprised...
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Béla Pomogáts: A legend’s reincarnation
Béla Pomogáts is a historian of literature and a literary critic whose main field of interest is twentieth-century Hungarian literature, including works by writers living outside the current borders of...
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Viktor Orbán’s vision of a new world order is fading
I was all set to ignore Viktor Orbán’s nineteenth yearly “assessment,” to skip the whole rigmarole. After all, there is absolutely nothing new to be found in his ramblings sprinkled with archaic and...
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Transylvania in focus
Today’s post will be devoted to three subjects, all of which are related in one way or the other to Transylvania. The topics range from beer to the coming national election to a fifth-grade Hungarian...
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Hungarian media stocking stuffers, a government Christmas present to Poland,...
At this time of the year, you don’t find too many articles on political news, either domestic or foreign, because everybody, even leading politicians, take a few days off, sparing us from the annoyance...
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Sándor Petőfi, the conservative revolutionary
In Népszava’s weekend magazine, Ignác Romsics, the doyen of Hungarian historiography, wrote an article about the careers of the “márciusi ifjak,” 20 young men, including Sándor Petőfi the poet, who had...
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