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Culture & Society

Boosting Christian Belief

Can the country retain the benefits of Christian Democracy, that is, its Christian ethics, namely human rights and personal liberty, even if Hungarians stop believing in Christianity?

Kelli Buzzard —

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy

The Myth of the Secular State

Does the model of the ‘secular’ state—that is, a state devoid of any religious foundations, as presumed by the narrative of separation—exist at all, or is only a myth of the modern era?

Tamás Nyirkos —

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 —

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REVIEW

Review

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Boomers are commonly seen by more recent generations in a colder world as having lived lives of perpetual indulgence—pampered as children by fond parents home from the war, indulged as rebellious students by liberal professors who praised them as ‘the most idealistic generation in history’, enabled to live a hippie lifestyle as employees, thanks to a tight US labour market in a world hungry for US goods.

John O'Sullivan —

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Will Tradition Deliver Us from Our Anxiety?

Unlike the loud and bloody scandal of twentieth-century totalitarian ideologies, today the respect for tradition, continuity, and constancy is vanishing silently, while often attacked and put into the same box with dangerous, truly radical ideas.

Péter Heltai —