Orbán Is All About Cash
Michael Ignatieff, former Rector of Central European University in Budapest, author and former Canadian politician, on how Viktor Orbán rose to the top of the Conservative International and created a new Hungarian bourgeoisie.
Zuzana Čaputová: a Lone Fighter Against Malfunctioning Politics
Zuzana Čaputová is the first woman to hold the position of head of state in the Slovak Republic, and one of the few females to have decided to take an active part in the politics of this fairly young Central European country.
The Church Is Somewhere In-between
“Conservative, identity-based piety will not offer people any vision of the future. Certainly, the kind of Church we know from Poland or even the Czech Republic will not do it,” says Monsignor Prof. Tomáš Halik in an interview with Aleksander Kaczorowski.
Putin Certainly Won’t Stop
Russian national identity is based on pride in its armed forces and its ability to defeat an enemy, albeit an enemy largely invented, like the Ukrainians - says Prof. Orlando Figes in an interview with Aleksander Kaczorowski.
Schools Are Lacking Courses on Civic Competence
According to Julian Gerhart, schools are in serious need of courses on civic competence. Five years ago, he founded zmudri.sk, an educational website, along with his friends, and has since received the Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award in 2023.
A Tale of Two Cities
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
Owen Matthews
Mudlark, 2022
448 pp
By Benjamin Cunningham
