Rhymes from Central Europe
Rhymes from Central Europe
Norman Stone’s sparkling new book, Hungary: A Short History, is a warning against ignoring history. It presents a country that never quite “caught up” with the West, and therefore never “settled down” to a calm post-nationalist existence. The modernising influence of industrialisation has always been subsumed in the problem of borders, religions, languages, and nationalities.
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more on Hungary in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=hungary
PODCAST – Dean Starkman: “We are looking at the Golden Age of Public Corruption”
PODCAST – Dean Starkman: “We are looking at the Golden Age of Public Corruption”
Dean Starkman is a fellow at Center for Media, Data and Society and a visiting lecturer at the School of Public Policy at Central European University, Budapest. He and Ben Novak discuss the challenges facing public interest journalism, the transformation of journalism as whole, and where things are going from here.
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more on Hungary in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=hungary
more on populism in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=populism