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Volume XII, No. 3

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AMERICA AS THE CLIMATE CHANGES

America is often said to have taken a ‘holiday from history’ between the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the jihadist attacks on two symbols of American power—New

GYÖRGY MATOLCSY’S
MONETARY POLICIES IN THE 2010s

Overview of György Matolcsy’s Economic Balance and Growth 2010–2019: From the Last to the First SUMMARY Certain works exploring the cultural history of mankind describe the living, regenerative economic organization

History

RANZ FERDINAND
HAD NOT DIED IN SARAJEVO

A Counterfactual History of Hungary, 1914–1919* Alternative or counterfactual history is not merely fiction or wishful thinking. According to E. H. Carr in his seminal What is History? (1961), the

Essay

AGREEMENT

On the Abrahamic Faiths in Europe Preparing for this occasion1 at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma, I was wondering if I could refrain from speaking about football this time, because ever since

Arts and Letters

REMEMBERING JOHN M. RIDLAND (1933–2020)

TO JOHN RIDLAND IN HEAVEN

1 Six foot six, the both of us,the two tallest poetsin Santa Barbara,though you had thirtyyears on me and a superiorsense of song—not tomention that long patriciannose,an eyebrow thatarched at

ON TRANSLATING
WITH JOHN M. RIDLAND

The University of California at Santa Barbara enjoyed a steady stream of visiting professors from Budapest. John’s friendships with several of them opened for him a window on Hungarian culture.

A REMEMBRANCE OF JOHN M. RIDLAND

Who would have thought of John M. Ridland as an ambassador of American diplomacy? Well, that is what he was, and while he would probably have rejected such a title,

JOHN M. RIDLAND (1933–2020)

Once one of his first students at the English Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Robyn Bell gave a succinct summary of the life of his former

MASTER TRANSLATOR OF POETRY

John M. Ridland (1933–2020) John M. Ridland was born in London in 1933, of Scottish ancestry, but lived most of his life in California. He defined himself as an Anglo-Californian

Our Authors

OUR AUTHORS

GUSZTÁV BÁGER 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