Category: Letters to the Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Gyula, For some time I have been meaning to write in order to commend you on the extraordinarily fine quality of the Hungarian Review. In issue after issue it brilliantly serves the purpose of presenting a compelling and thoughtful portrait of the complex life and culture of Hungary past and

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Why, I wonder, do historians – Anglo-Saxon ones anyway – have this irrepressible need to take a side-swipe at the social sciences? Mark Mazower did this in his Dark Continent (p.367), Richard Evans devoted an entire book to it (In Defence of History) and now my old friend Norman Stone joins them, (Hungarian Review,

ON CATCH-UP STRATEGIES IN THE FAR EAST

In recent issues (March 2012 and May 2012), László Árva and András Schlett have written about the economic development of Malaysia and South Korea from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Their suggestion that properly directed state intervention in the economy, either through direct investment or protectionist measures, can leverage

A NOTE ON WESTERN INTELLECTUALS

As always I enjoy reading the Hungarian Review. The depth of its coverage puts many much wider circulation up-market intellectual magazines in West Europe to shame. Having visited, and admired, the House of Terror Museum in Budapest I was puzzled by the allegations of its Director, Mária Schmidt, in your