Since our last issue the Fidesz government and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have won a second landslide election giving them, even if narrowly, a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian Parliament. Though it is unwise to take History’s name in vain, we think this election worthy of being called historic because
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s words (from his 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun) have been quoted and misquoted endlessly, most recently by Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign, to describe the persistence of racial antagonisms in American life and, in particular, in
Once Hungary kindly arranged a peaceful end to the Cold War, the politics of all Western countries, including Japan and including the newly Western countries of the former “Eastern Europe”, have been in disarray. That is because during the long conflict the political divisions in almost all nations were provoked and arranged
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Editors-at-Large: Gyula Kodolányi, John O’Sullivan
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