R. Daniel Kelemen from Rutgers has given an interview to Népszava and in it he mentioned that the benefit of an EU-membership might be that Orbán will not resort to Lukashenko-like violence because an EU member state can not sink as deeply into autocracy as a non-member could. Continue reading
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Destruction as a Way of “Taking Back Control”
Destruction seems as good a form of control as any when there is no other way to alter our environment constructively Continue reading
The Two Minutes Hate Is Turning into 24/7 Fear
We have reached the point when the government names “public enemies” Continue reading
How The Mind Justifies Ideological Violence
Nothing can guarantee that virulent ideologies will not infect a country, but an open society is a powerful vaccine Continue reading
The Order Doesn’t Have To Come From Viktor
In an autocracy it is a stupid question to ask whether an order came from the top. The point is that it doesn’t have to. Continue reading