This article is largely based on a lecture given to CARA (the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) on 20 November 2014 in the series of Science and Civilisation. It examines the role of refugee academics in the scientific enterprise. It challenges the established dogma of basic versus applied research and
In memoriam Jack Kerouac Some time north of the mid-seventies I taught summer camp, initiating kids into the arts of soccer and painting. It was in upstate New York, by Schroon Lake. I apologize for starting with myself. Bear with me, for it will get worse. OK, this was supposed
What, if anything, will shape the possible future of Hungary and the Hungarians? Will we, Protestants and Catholics, be a blessing for a future Hungary? The question is whether all of those who have something of value that only they know and they know best can add that value to
I paced the length of it – one hundred and forty-three paces from end to end. As a messenger bearing the last salute of murdered millions I passed along the line of stony faces; Calvin, Knox, Farel, Beza! and those great bull-heads, grim captains of embattled faith, all those Williams,
“The peculiar paradox of the Reformation was its essentially ambiguous character,for it was at once a conservative religious reaction and a radically libertarian revolution.” Richard Tarnas: The Passion of the Western Mind Having been reared by an Anglican mother and a Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) father, I have always considered
1 Limping, unwillingly half-faltering across the empty ground, with light, uneven steps, she barely overtakes her friends whose lighter, youthful steps she steps beyond. A crippled freedom leads her, enlivening her step, and, as she steps, she clarifies the readiness I feel: spring weather is the grandmother of coffins. What
THE TOWER OF SILENCE Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which Bartók composed to the libretto of the poet Béla Balázs, a friend of both Bartók and Kodály, was completed in 1911, but for many long years it remained the symbol of the moral triumph of its creator. Bartók entered it in a
ATTILA BALÁZS (Novi Sad/Újvidék, 1955), writer, translator, journalist. Author of twelve books of prose. Founder of the cultural magazine Ex Symposion. He worked as editor for the YU Radio-Television, and moved to Budapest in 1991. For a time he worked as war correspondent, then as political correspondent for the newspaper
HUNGARIAN REVIEW is
published by BL Nonprofit Kft.
Editorial office: 24 Eötvös Street, Budapest, 1067, HUNGARY
E-mail: hungarianreview@hungarianreview.com
Publisher: Gergő Kereki
Editor-in-Chief: Tamás Magyarics
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: István Kiss
Editors-at-Large: Gyula Kodolányi, John O’Sullivan
Managing Editor: Ildikó Geiger
