Hungarian Conservative

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.

A kind of manifesto for conservative values that we can perhaps all commit to in these turbulent times.

The political debates of the last half decade show that the concept of sovereignty has revived in the political public.

International law has been constantly expanding and consolidating its competence over relations between state and people.

The central proposition to help decode the nature of the European polis is that the EU is simultaneously a legal and a political formation.

On 16 January Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) elected a new party chairman, Armin Laschet. Where will he lead the party, and will he be the new chancellor?

This March, a long and painful struggle finally came to end.

Today we witness a clash between two distinct views of liberty and sovereignty.

The imperative of transparency also implies a proliferation of information which, quite deliberately, does not establish the truth, but only serves to make the world more opaque.

This is Budapest: a big city that dreamed and then built for itself a colourful past during the last decades of the old world, in those final moments before the dawn of modernism.

Scruton wrote that the foundation of democracy is not necessarily liberalism but a sense of national loyalty.

The former Soviet satellite states which mainly joined the EU in 2004 are the main bulwarks against the revival of ideologies with their roots in communist thinking.

In the age of soft colonization and hybrid neo-colonialism, the war of independence must be fought in the cultural field in the first place.

The Recovery Plan is an unprecedented response to an unprecedented crisis. It also exemplifies the dilemmas the Union faces in the most turbulent period of its short history.

This journal aspires to be the foremost English-language voice of twenty-first-century Hungarian conservatism.

As Live Not by Lies makes clear, we are facing the zealots of a new sect with its own dogmas, clergy, and easily uttered anathemas.

The revival and reinstatement of tradition, its restoration if you like, is by no means self-contradictory, and constancy is a more important element of tradition than change.