Culture & Society Archives - Hungarian Conservative

Interview with Calum T. M. Nicholson

The problem with social media is that the business model—the medium itself—is founded on not just a misunderstanding, but an exclusion, of what it is to be human.

Lidia Papp — 01.09.21

In God We Trust: Declining Religiosity and What’s Taking Its Place

Thousands of years of socio-cultural evolution has made us instinctively inhabit religious thinking patterns, and where actual church dogmas fail to be appealing enough, people start to look elsewhere.

Tamás Orbán — 02.08.21

Culture & Society

The Age of Digital Freedom

Today’s “objective truth” is not what the majority of the scientific community accepts as such; rather it is what most people share on social media.

Judit Varga — 26.07.21

Culture & Society

Spaces of Conservation

Nostalgia, so characteristic of conservatives, can be understood not in time but in space instead. This nostalgia originates from Odysseus’s desire to return home (νόστος) and means the suffering of man away from his home that motivates his return.

Áron Czopf — 21.07.21

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 — 09.07.21

Culture & Society

Rommel’s Hungarian Soldier

The film’s (The English Patient) main protagonist is the Hungarian desert explorer László Almásy. Who was this mysterious person looking for happiness so far from home, in the barren, sandy world of the Libyan Desert?

János Kubassek — 05.07.21

Culture & Society

Why Transgenderism is a Central Issue?

There is a drastic increase in the number of children confused by their gender identity in countries where propaganda to young people is widespread.

Lidia Papp — 02.06.21

Culture & Society

How Budapest Dreams and Reconstructs Its Past

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.

Gellért Rajcsányi — 01.04.21

Culture & Society

Tradition – Constancy Is More Important than Change

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.

Gergely Szilvay — 30.03.21