“Everywhere in the [French] middle classes ‘bourgeois bolshevism’ is thriving.There is no artist, no journalist, no actor who does not claim to be subversive, especially if he or she receives a government subsidy.”(Pascal Bruckner: The Tyranny of Guilt) “Thinkers from Gadamer to Derrida have contested the claims of the Enlightenment
EVERYDAY COMMUNISMOn Life, Books and Women in Communist Hungary(1) I will touch upon one general and three specific topics in this paper. First I will review what totalitarianism looked like in our everyday lives during the decades of communism. Moving on from this general assessment, my second topic addresses the
On 12 June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before West Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the wall that surrounded the free world’s enclave hundreds of miles inside Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. There, in delivering the speech that defined the final phase of the Cold War, he called out a direct challenge to the
In Europe, the Americas and parts of the Middle East, all countries with at least some blonde population, blondes are universally seen as the most beautiful and desirable of all women. It is easy to demonstrate this. Yet at the same time “dumb blondes” are the subject of many hundreds
MIRACULOUS TANGERINE TREES (On the thirtieth anniversary of a photo exhibition) Here is a quiz question for you: which island in the Adriatic is a habitat for the elephant, the ostrich, the zebra, the antelope and the like? No need to think too hard, for the question is of the
2. […] A widely accepted definition, not accurate though, states that the word “utopia” denotes a political project which is idealistic in its intentions, but completely unrealistic, impractical and incompatible with human experience. The writers of utopias are therefore usually looked down as naïve sentimentalists or feared as dangerously inhuman
1. INTRODUCTION I have very pleasant associations with the capital of Hungary. Not only because the city – as you well know – is beautiful, but also because it is close to me. I was born in Przemyśl, a small town in the southeast corner of Poland. During the First
At 8:15 a.m. on 8 June 1950, LLD Milada Horáková entered a Prague courtroom with twelve others accused of political crimes against Communist Czechoslovakia. There, she was barraged with one vitriolic salvo after another as the frenzied prosecutors accused her of plotting the destruction of the republic, espionage, and conspiring
The people, says Burke, should not be trusted as advisers on policy or even necessarily as true reckoners of their interests in the short run, but they are always the best judges of their own oppression – so much so that we ought to fear any power on earth that
A spectre is haunting the universal map of humanity: the spectre of minorities. The map is overwhelmingly complex and these travellers are small and vulnerable. A distant viewer would not even discover this chaotic and anarchic stream of people aimlessly yet stout-heartedly drifting on pathless ways, far away from the
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