So they believe their own propaganda and paranoia is now proudly admitted official policy Continue reading
Category Archives: Real existing Orbánism
Can someone please explain to me what these things are doing in school textbooks?
These two examples come from elementary school textbooks and making the rounds on social media – one more inexplicable than the next. Continue reading
A year after the academy of science was Orbanized, the minister distributes research grants
In June 2019, after some the usual mini-resistance, uproar, a little protesting and the obligatory voices of international disapproval, the academy of science (MTA) has been Orbanized. One year later, the minister personally rewrites the list of research grant recipients – to no one’s surprise. Continue reading
Fidesz is such a strong brand, its candidates run as “independent”
Set aside your simplistic assumptions. Disinformation is way ahead of us Continue reading
Even digital radio was too free
Authorities discontinued digital technology because it wouldn’t allow them to allocate frequencies Continue reading
Would you give your job (or your life) to bring just one corrupt strongman to justice? Because that is the price
Two prosecutors were fired trying to stop the case against a corrupt Orbánist MP. He is now even bragging about it Continue reading
Two times we attributed more to Orbán than he actually was
We assume more sophistication from Orbán than he cares to practice. Does it hold any lessons for the future? Continue reading
The fight against fake news turned into a fight for real one
It’s not like having to triangulate between Fox and CNN. It is full-on, top-down propaganda and no one left to deliver news Continue reading
The list of the remaining independent news portals
There isn’t much left for us to follow what happens in Hungary. At this point I am more in the loop about American politics than I am about my own country – simply because there aren’t enough journalists left – and those who insist on persevering despite loyalists’ harassment and an increasingly hostile and impatient … Continue reading
Freedom House: Hungary now only a hybrid regime
The steepest civilizatory decline among the Eastern Bloc Continue reading
