Hungary Mourns Charlie Kirk as Hundreds Gather at US Embassy

Hundreds gathered at the US Embassy in Budapest on Thursday night to honour assassinated US conservative activist Charlie Kirk. At the candlelit vigil, Zsolt Bayer, Miklós Szánthó, and László Molnár called his killing a strike against Judeo–Christian civilization, warning that Western culture must not be erased by far-left violence.

Populist ‘Clown’ or Genius? — Trump’s Legacy Debated at Brain Bar 2025

Donald Trump’s legacy split the stage at Brain Bar 2025, where Zoltán Pogátsa slammed him as an opportunist ‘populist clown’, while Jacob Reynolds hailed him as a disruptor who exposed the failures of globalization and elite complacency. The fiery debate showed why Trump remains the most divisive figure in global politics.

Finding Order in Chaos — An Interview with Dr James Carafano

At the 5th Geopolitical Summit in Budapest, hosted by the Danube Institute and The Heritage Foundation, we spoke with a leading policy strategist about the collapse of liberal institutionalism, the rise of sovereign realism, and the future of conservative foreign policy. As global power shifts, how can nations preserve sovereignty in an era of deep uncertainty?

Trump’s Pollster McLaughlin Predicts Orbán’s Victory in 2026 Election

A new poll by Donald Trump’s longtime pollster, McLaughlin & Associates, shows Fidesz–KDNP leading Tisza—contradicting weeks of opposition-linked surveys that had placed Péter Magyar’s party ahead. Commissioned by Index, the poll puts Fidesz at 43 per cent, Tisza at 37, with Viktor Orbán still seen as the favourite for prime minister.

Two Tragic Deaths and a Turning Point

The blood of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk is not only on the hands of their killers—it stains the political and cultural establishment that excused, enabled, and even celebrated their deaths. These tragedies are not isolated—they are warnings for conservatives worldwide.

In Search of Something More

‘The sad truth is that most liberal democracies have had it so good for so long that we’ve forgotten that almost nothing worthwhile comes without effort, that freedom has to be defended, and that often enough the alternative to fighting is surrender. Something that Israel has always known; that the Ukrainians have more recently discovered; that the Taiwanese might belatedly be waking up to…’