A decade of the Hungarian right

In a series of comments on the evolution of the Hungarian political right over the past ten years, one author muses over the end of Western civilization and regards Fidesz as the only bulwark against a looming apocalypse, while another asks if there is a Hungarian right beyond Orbán, or ...

Will Orbán manage to be tough, and still ready to compromise?

A conservative philosopher believes Prime Minister Orbán should use more diplomatic language in his argument with the European Union, but admits that Brussels gives him little room to make concessions without losing face.

Lessons of the Slovak elections

Commentators seem to agree that Hungarians in Slovakia are among the losers of the Parliamentary election there. Some blame what they call the Orbán government’s wrong-headed cross-border policies; others believe the new inter-ethnic party is at fault.

Where Fukuyama was mistaken

A conservative philosopher contends that Francis Fukuyama’s criticism of the Hungarian government was based in part on erroneous assumptions. Magyar Nemzet predicts that Hungarian intellectuals who stand up in defence of the government will not impress leading Western media outlets, in contrast to the credit left-wing opponents of the government ...

Mos maiorum

A conservative blog started in 2011by philosopher Ferenc Horkay Hörcher with his colleagues and pupils from the Political Science Department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Mos maiorum (latin) means the ancestral custom, and the bloggers intend to analyse Eastern and Western societies on the basis of democracy's unwritten rules.

Conflicting reactions to Hungary’s double junk status

Right-wing commentators attribute the downgrade of Hungary’s sovereign debt by Standard and Poor’s to the deepening crisis of the Eurozone. According to left-wing pundits it just reflects the failure of the Orbán government’s unorthodox economic strategy. A moderate conservative observer cautions against an overly independent policy line.

At war

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has identified debt and unemployment as the twin enemies to defeat, lest we be defeated by them. Left-wing commentators accuse him of waging war with virtually all actors at home and abroad. Right-wing analysts also report signs of social tensions, but blame the hardships on the ...