Category: VOLUME VI, No. 3

EDITORIAL NOTE

Small magazines are the neurons of civilisation. They transmit vital messages between different cultural, academic, scientific and practical disciplines in much the same way as neurons link different parts of the brain. By this service they make a civilisation from what might otherwise be mutually incomprehensible worlds: dance without music,

THE KREMLIN’S ‘CIVILISATIONAL’ ALTERNATIVE?

Russia is a threat to European stability because it has mounted a frontal assault on the treaties, agreements and principles that ended the Cold War and defined Europe as we have come to know it. To be sure, the rules had been transgressed before. They were transgressed by Russia in

AN UNSENTIMENTAL LOOK AT THE GEOPOLITICS OF CENTRAL EUROPE – PART II

The American approach to Europe in general, and to Central Europe in particular is more ambiguous than meets the eye. Europe was obviously downgraded in American foreign and security policy after the collapse of the communist regimes.1 The new challenges were located elsewhere, especially in the greater Middle East, Central

THE BRIDGE CONNECTING SCIENCE, PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL IMAGE

The name of E. Sylvester Vizi is a familiar one in science and public affairs in Hungary and abroad. A full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) and team leading researcher at its Institute of Experimental Medicine, Professor Vizi is an internationally renowned authority on neuroscience and one

A FOOTNOTE TO THE BRITISH ELECTION OF MAY 7TH, 2015

British election result in parliamentary seats: Conservatives 331 (27 more than in 2010);Labour 232 (26 less than in 2010);Liberal Democrats 8 (49 less than in 2010);Scottish Nationalists 56 (50 more than in 2010);United Kingdom Independence Party -UKIP 1 (a loss of 1 seat from the two they had);22 others. On

THE INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS OF FEMINISM

One of the most striking things about feminism is the extent to which a body of beliefs based on notions of equality has produced new inequalities without hardly anyone seeming to notice. I particularly have in mind the inequalities between a rich, privileged female elite and the majority of other

BIBLES FOR COMMUNIST EUROPE – A COLD WAR STORY – PART I

Communist ideology and religion were strong adversaries. The severity of governmental oppression and discrimination against believers, however, varied in the different communist countries. One of the instruments of ideological repression utilised by the communist authorities was limiting the availability of religious materials, especially Bibles. Thus, the smuggling of Bibles into

A THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD BROTHERHOOD AND ITS PRESENT

Orsolya Zsuzsanna Kovács: Polish Jigsaw. Fourteen Interviews Friendship. Seemingly a simple matter. After all, it does not require more than two people. Hence friendship is “as simple as ABC”, one would think. And one would be utterly wrong. Each of us can probably recall the name of our best pals

A PACT THAT STARTED WORLD WAR II

Roger Moorhouse, The Devils’ Alliance. Hitler’s Pact with Stalin 1939–1941* Historians investigating the causes of World War II seldom return to the treaty that made the beginning of hostilities possible: to the German–Soviet pact of 23 August 1939. This so-called “non-aggression” agreement sometimes referred to as the “Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact” was

HOW AN IMPROBABLE SOURCE CLINCHED ALLIED VICTORY IN 1944

The critical information that sealed the fate of Nazi Germany came from a team of fewer than six young civilians crowded in a small room in a ramshackle government building a few blocks from the White House. The youngest who called himself a mathematician had just finished high school; another