Category: VOLUME XI, No. 6

“The medicalisation of life in the last hundred years is one of the most remarkable features of our post-historical world. Until the 20th century the role of clinical medicine in the improvement of health was minute. Whether populations grew or shrank had little to do with medicine, despite its best

Reading Nicholas Parsons’ Civilisation and Its Malcontents – Essays on Our Times,1 its 462 rather generously packed pages. I felt a thrill: the thrill of racing through the highways of what Eric Weinstein dubbed as the Intellectual Dark Web, where there is no speed limit to thought. What is in

Asked what the post-Covid world would be like, the most famous of contemporary French writers, Michel Houellebecq, replied with his customary asperity: “The same – only worse.” This is because, according to him, if I have read him aright, deterioration in our modern world never misses an opportunity to take

“The RMDSZ (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania) is the oldest and largest minority party in the country, since its democratic chapter was established after the fall of Communism, and aside from minor gains from smaller challengers, mostly in the homogeneously Hungarian Székelyföld or Szeklerland, it was able to consolidate