Even The Economist felt compelled to report that a byelection in October could technically end Orbán’s damaging parliamentary supermajority. The key word is technically. Continue reading
Category Archives: Commentary
If Budapest gets EU money directly will Orbán tax it at 100% or 120%?
Orbán will get his revenge Continue reading
Expecting covid-measures to make epidemiological sense is a first world privilege
Only a citizen spoiled by freedom gets upset when a politician is stupid, stealing or grabbing power Continue reading
There is no such thing as good price controls and a bad ones
The government hit covid tests with price control. Now it takes 30 days to get two negative tests and escape quarantine. Continue reading
The asymmetry of power between surveillant and surveilled
If you depend so much on who is conducting the surveillance, good or evil, it probably shouldn’t be in place. Continue reading
The asymmetry of power between surveillant and surveilled
People have no concept of why exactly surveillance is detrimental to freedom Continue reading
Surveillance alters behavior – and ultimately your thinking
And not in the way you hope Continue reading
The parallels between domestic abuse and state surveillance – Part 2.
We are all like abused women in our psychological response to state surveillance Continue reading
The parallels between domestic abuse and state surveillance
Don’t flatter ourselves, we are all like abused women in our psychological response to state surveillance Continue reading
Why conformism is a mechanism of evil
It is an effort to make disapproval go away, and thus not a neutral thing Continue reading
