Despite the modest albeit important economic recovery in the past 2–3 years Hungary has a number of challenges that can harm its development already in the short and medium term, and these have hardly been addressed in the campaign. The Orbán-regime mostly plans to carry on with its earlier policies.
By
Péter Balogh & Vassilis Petsinis
April 8, 2014
A hundred years have passed and Raoul Wallenberg is currently the subject of much publicity.
By
Hans Wolf
June 28, 2012
Martin Pollack, Kaiser von Amerika: Die grosse Flucht aus Galizien, Vienna: Paul Zsolnay Verlag 2010, 285 pages
By
Anders Björnsson
October 3, 2011
János Kornai certainly has been taking risks, and he definitely got his chance to develop in a most unusual way. He started out as a very young journalist in communist Hungary, and he eventually became a professor at Harvard.
By
Björn Kumm
June 30, 2011
The Hungarian János Kornai is one of Europe’s most respected economists. His name is often mentioned in speculation about the […]
By
Anders Björnsson
January 11, 2011
István Rév opens the door to the Open Society Archives for a discussion about bloodshed as a poor gauge of a revolution, about honesty and decency as rare commodities, and about populism and utopianism.
By
Anders Björnsson
February 19, 2010
In Hungary, there were several active women fascists. In the People’s Tribunals after World War II, however, few of the women were convicted. There was an unwillingness to think of women as capable of such evil deeds.
Essay by
Andrea Petö
February 16, 2010
In the 1960s Hungarian intellectuals listened to jazz as a protest against the system. Symbols united them in the fight. In 1989 they returned to lead the revolution.
Essay by
András Bozóki
February 11, 2010