Ferenc Gyurcsány’s State of the Nation speech 2013, Part I
About two weeks ago I published the English translation of Attila Mesterházy’s policy speech. Some of you complained about the number of “ladies and gentlemen” in Mesterházy’s speech. In DK circles...
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How to rebuild democracy in Hungary? According to some, not by compromise...
As I mentioned yesterday, there were two topics suggested by readers and I agreed that they were interesting and definitely worth spending time on. After tackling two surveys on Hungarian societal...
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János Kornai: Hungary’s U-turn
János Kornai, the renowned Hungarian economist, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and Corvinus University of Budapest, has written a new paper about the situation in Hungary. He...
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Orbán buries democracy with faint praise
After Viktor Orbán delivered his speech at the Friends of Hungary Foundation on Saturday, I received two e-mails calling my attention to it. One of them included a commentary on the speech by Zoltán...
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Fidesz versus Jobbik: Not much difference
Few things can annoy me more than reading in the foreign press or in political analyses that the Orbán government is “conservative.” Take, for instance, the otherwise admirable report prepared by the...
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Jean-Claude Juncker: “The dictator is coming”
More than a million people have looked at the YouTube clip of the by now infamous scene where Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, greets Viktor Orbán with “The dictator is...
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Vulnerable Democracies — An interview with János Kornai
János Kornai, professor emeritus at Harvard and Corvinus, is the foremost economist in Hungary today. Several of his books have been translated into English, including a book that made him a maverick...
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MÁRTON KOZÁK AND BÁLINT MAGYAR: “IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE SYSTEM . . .” (Part II)
Yesterday, reviewing the article written recently by Márton Kozák and Bálint Magyar, I stopped at the author’s list of the various descriptors political analysts have affixed to Viktor Orbán’s...
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