Category: From our Readers

ATOP FLANDERS POPPIES AND OTHER BLOOPERS

The year 2021 marks a century since the parents and siblings of my maternal grandfather, the future engineer and doctor of technical sciences Ervin Becker, had to leave their hometown, Selmecbánya, and to move to ‘Rump Hungary’, as it was called at that time. My grandfather had had to leave

THE UNITED STATES AND HUNGARY

Long Time Friends Right from the Start As the unprecedented presidential campaign came to end in 2020, it revealed the voting behaviour of a cross-section of American voters that is now worth studying insofar as it will, without a doubt, carry over into the next off-year election. To the extent

THE GREAT HUNGARIAN DEBATE

The adoption of a brand new constitution in Hungary has been met with celebrations from Fidesz and its supporters, groans of anguish and theatrical gestures from its opponents, and not a few glances of blank incomprehension from abroad. The argument boils down to this: the government argues that Hungary needs

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

First of all we would like to congratulate you on the occasion of the launching of the Hungarian Review, a bold endeavour indeed. Let’s hope that this new publication will contribute to better inform those interested in Hungary, her politics, economics and culture. We understand that the Hungarian Review will publish a wide