Orbán: “A liberal is a commie with a college education”
24.hu had the right idea. They spliced together a few “highlights” of Viktor Orbán’s annual performance, which I have dubbed his “state of the union” address. It is only five minutes long, but this...
View ArticleProfessor Róbert Braun’s resignation letter from Corvinus University
Professor Róbert Braun is an expert on market strategy who is currently the leading research associate of the Institut für Höhere Studien–Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. Born in 1966, he...
View ArticleBoycotting the media is counterproductive
Until now it was only certain high-level Fidesz party and government officials who refused to give interviews to certain left-of-center newspapers, radio, and television stations. Then, two years ago,...
View ArticleSituation report on the fight for Central European University
Yesterday Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy at Central European University who as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
View ArticleSebastian L. von Gorka’s encounter with the Hungarian National Security Office
I’m sure that many of Hungarian Spectrum’s readers were expecting me to write about the Putin visit to Budapest, but only a few hours after Putin’s airplanes, all three of them, landed at the Ferenc...
View ArticleAndrás Lánczi: What others call corruption is the raison d’être of Fidesz
Yesterday U.S. Ambassador Colleen Bell gave a speech at the Central European University about American perspectives on migration, security, and foreign policy. There was a lot of talk about the rule of...
View ArticleIt’s not corruption. It’s national interest
“Political thinkers” are a dangerous lot at times. There was Gábor G. Fodor, the modern-day Macchiavelli of the Századvég Institute, who almost a year ago described Viktor Orbán’s political career as...
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