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A Sober Look at Ukraine and Poland

It is our position that the Russian troops must be withdrawn from the occupied territories. Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the human and minority rights within its borders must be restored.

Zsolt Németh —

POLITICS

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CULTURE

Culture & Society

The Roma Minority in Hungary

The social dynamics set into  motion under state socialism continues to have a lingering negative impact even today. Around 55 per cent of the Hungarian Roma live in villages or towns with a population of less than 50 thousand people.

Lili Zemplényi —

Culture & Society

The Return of Hungary’s Holy Crown

Representing several Hungarian American associations, Adelbert Balunek explained the significance of the Holy Crown, saying that it represented ‘1,000 years of Christian, independent, sovereign rule in Hungary.’

Kelli Buzzard —

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy

Adventures in the World of Political Theology

Christian political theology rejects the optimistic Enlightenment belief in progress, for it seeks to remember those who have fallen out of collective memory, itself defined in the modern age by the myth of progress. Remembrance is one of the most important concepts in Christianity.

András Karácsony —

Philosophy

‘Theologians’ on Modern Politics: John C. Bennett

While realism is defined explicitly, Christianity is not. Nevertheless, several crutches could lead us to understand Bennett’s theological perspective. He helps us in this effort when he plainly rejects ‘post-Kantian idealism that represents the pride of autonomous reason’.

Ádám Darabos —

Culture & Society

On the Word ‘Conservative’

Modern societies that work well are conservative in that they have a strong sense of homeostasis. This is the sense of continually returning to a point of equilibrium. Upsets, changes, drives, and tensions occur along the way.

Peter Murphy —

Current

European Green Policy – the Clash between Dreams and Reality

Some experts warned European countries more than a decade ago that their energy supply was based on ‘thin ice’ which could make the European Union vulnerable in a situation of geopolitical tension. But the EU has still not woken up from her “sleeping beauty” dream, and this mistake could be a serious blow to green hopes.

Soma Hegedős —

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REVIEW

Review

The Struggles of Men of a More Sophisticated Age

In its entirety, Scitovszky’s memoirs are a compelling and eloquent retelling of many of the obscure events at and after Trianon, written by a man of a sophisticated age, hardened by insurmountable challenges and driven by a sense of duty and responsibility.

Tamás Orbán —

Review

Handbook for the Decline of the West

What can the average person do when they experience the decline of every civilization as an inevitable fate, ‘an irrevocable end, which, driven by inner necessity, comes again and again’?

Barnabás Kurucz —