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“In December 2019, a series of pneumonic cases of unknown cause emerged in Wuhan, a large city of 11 million in central China, with a clinical presentation resembling viral pneumonia.
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“The complex relationships between law and politics have undergone quite remarkable changes over the past few decades. Commentators and researchers have been particularly alerted to the twin phenomena of the
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“Political correctness and identity politics are the two sides of the same postmodern coin. They both reject the idea that there is any truth claim that can command greater allegiance
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Both [Antonio] Gramsci and [Rudi] Dutschke argued that radical social change in highly developed societies would be the result of long, patient organising inside and outside of key institutions, and
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“One of the recipients this March of Hungary’s highest award for contributions to the arts, the Kossuth Prize, was the writer Mátyás Sárközi. This was in recognition of his writings,
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In 2013 the new general director of the National Theatre in Budapest stepped onto the bridge of the flagship of Hungary’s theatre scene as an ethnic Hungarian from outside the
A NATION DISMEMBERED Selected Poetry from the Antology edited by Csilla Bertha and Gyula Kodolányi1 Part III SÁNDOR KÁNYÁDI BEHIND GOD’S BACK Isten háta mögött empty mangers empty stallschristmas here
ATTILA BALÁZS (Novi Sad/Újvidék, 1955), writer, translator, journalist. Author of twelve books of prose. Founder of the cultural magazine Ex Symposion. He worked as editor for the YU Radio-Television; moved
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