When a man witnesses a gross insult to his mother, he must at least interrupt his playing of the violin. Some of our readers have recently made mild complaints that the balance of articles in the Review has swung too far towards the contemporary political and away from the artistic
It took the collective wisdom of Europe’s great and good to create Europe’s first ponzi austerity scheme… As in Ponzi growth schemes, where more and more investments are required to maintain the pretence of growth, in the case of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus more and more loans were
Although this article is highly speculative, and somewhat light-hearted and fanciful in tone, it is intended to serve, if not as a beacon, at least a premonition of what such a beacon might look like. There are obviously many serious issues involved in a move toward this model, and not
P. T. Bauer (1915–2002) is a Hungarian that his countrymen should remember and honour. One day, he will be celebrated as a great economist of the 20th century and a gallant figure who opposed the consensus. His father was a bookie in Budapest. One day “one of his clients suggested
It is not the first time that I write on Ukraine in this journal, and most probably it will not be the last. It has been a long way since President George H. Bush told Ukrainians in Kiev in the summer of 1991 to remain within the Soviet Union, together
The Roman Catholic Church is the oldest institution in the world. It has seen the ruin of an Empire, the rise and fall of kingdoms, withstood the invasions of barbarian tribes and repulsed Ottoman armies and navies. It even produced a pope who, with not a single armoured division, played
KÁDÁR’S DUAL PERSPECTIVE Amid the stern Soviet-sphere rejection of Czechoslovak arguments for, and defence of, the Prague Spring, there was an exception. And it came from the man and the Party which knew the most about what had actually happened in Hungary’s 1956. From March to June (and afterward), Hungarian
At about half way in the course of the Second World War, I shocked my family by using a foreign phrase for the first time. The word came from the dictator of a neighbouring state, Nazi Germany, our dreaded enemy. My family’s policy was to keep us children in the
(On and à propos Tibor Várady’s book Goose-Downs and History) The secret source of Humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. (Mark Twain) Lieutenant Nikola Tepić was the half-brother of Major Milan Tepić, the latter well-known for having blown himself up along with an ammunition depot at Bjelovar to prevent
A Story Found in the Family Archive THE OZNA This story is about the criminal trial of István Tóth. I found the mould-ridden case documents on a bottom shelf in the garage. They stated that Tóth, a farmer, was born in Hódegyháza (today Jazovo in Serbia), a village about 10
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