Category: VOLUME XIII, No. 1

Our Authors

GUSZTÁV BÁGER, poet and economist. He is professor emeritus at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the head of the Economic Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance, and in 1992, he became the head of the International Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance.

FROM OUR READERS

Howard Hunter’s rejoinder to the János Kubassek articleon Christianity and religions in Indonesia Dear Editors, I read with great pleasure the charming essay by János Kubassek about the School of St Stephen and Fr Tamás Krump on the Indonesian Island of Flores. My wife and I lived in Singapore for

Ode to the Global Wind

1 you raw global windinvisible you areyou exercise the tree brancheswhispering secrets to talkative leavesyou breathe life into landscapesyou comb forests for a blade of grassand lovingly touch with haystacksyou scribble notes between thelines of constitutionsget through buttonholesroll away distanceswhile breathing fresh scentsonto cities and flutter ceaselesslythe texture of matter

CASTLES, FATES, STORIES

On Hungary’s National Palace and Castle Programmes Whether walking the streets of Budapest, especially in the Castle District, admiring the main squares of Hungarian towns and cities, visiting the countryside, or watching the renovation of former aristocratic castles and the ‘reconstruction’ of ruins which were once castles, it is apparent

CHALLENGES TO THE INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE REGIME AND THE REFUGEE DEFINITION

Part II REGIONAL CONVENTIONS EXPANDING THE REFUGEE DEFINITION The UN Declaration on Territorial Asylum in December 1967 was in fact only the initial step towards working out a broader definition of refugees in need of international protection. 1UN General Assembly, ‘Declaration on Territorial Asylum’, 14 December 1967, A/RES/2312(XXII), www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f05a2c.html, accessed

Memory, Commemoration, Crisis

Fulbright, Arkansas, and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1946–2021 Part II Fulbright Program anniversaries have been plagued by crises every twenty-five years. In 1971, a dramatic 40 per cent cut in its budget—caused by the crushing pressure military spending for the Vietnam War put on all ‘non-essential’ expenditures

Culture in Crisis

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals about the West and Its Prospects Introduction It has been two years since we began to hear the first reports of a new virus in China. Infections then spread at a rate that seemed sometimes to outrun the rumours themselves. Within weeks, we all knew

‘Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues’*

Reflections on The Woke versus the West:Awkward Questions for a Progressive Age by John O’Sullivan During my student days in Oxford the distinguished poet Robert Graves was the university’s ‘Poet in Residence’. The duties of the person voted into this position did not seem unduly onerous in those days, but

WHERE DO WE COME FROM?
WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING?
2021

A few years ago, I spent time at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with five friends, from America, England, Poland, the Netherlands, and Germany, respectively. When we reached the painting by Gauguin, entitled Where Do We Come from? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, we looked at one

Trust, Hope, and Rebirth

Cardinal Péter Erdő in Interview with Zoltán Pásztor Pope Francis has referred quite warmly to his encounter with hundreds of thousands of Hungarian pilgrims in Csíksomlyó (Șumuleu, Romania) in June 2019, and he was deeply touched by the love emanating from the faithful in Budapest in September 2021. We asked