Attila Károly Molnár is a historian of ideas and director of the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the Eötvös József Research Centre, Budapest, as well as the Századvég Publishing House. He has conducted research into the history of political and social thinking with a special focus on religion, and has published several books, including A protestáns etika Magyarországon, 1994, 2021 (The Protestant Ethic in Hungary (1994, 2021); Feljegyzések a kaotikus fegyházból, 1999 (Notes from the Chaotic Prison); Edmund Burke (2000); A szabadságolt lelkiismeret I–II, 2014, 2016 (Conscience on Leave I–II, 2014, 2016); and A tanácskozó demokrácia és a megváltó csevegés, 2014 (The Deliberative Democracy and the Redeeming Chatting).