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Published in: HomeWhen the lights go out: the attack against Popper’s open society ideal in HungaryAustrian-British philosopher, Karl Popper, argued for the existence of several lights to illuminate the truth. This...
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Published in: 50.50The refugee crisis: demilitarising masculinitiesPhotos emerging from the borders of Europe weave a new narrative around what it means to be vulnerable, to be a man,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We are not your case study: weaving transnational solidarities across the semi-peripheriesAs transnational activists navigating this intricate landscape we need self-criticism, paying careful attention to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?CEU and NGO crackdown: a double blow for Roma inclusion in HungaryThe university, its culture, and its location here in Budapest, are a vital component of the social and economic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungarian public employees victimised for connections to the Central European UniversityYanis Varoufakis talks here about the nodal systems of the 'deep establishment' that are closing in in Europe. This...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Virtue-signalling as a route to social status: instances from the semi-peripheryTwo Budapest-based activists give a vivid account of the ideological constraints they are working under, not helped...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?And you thought Trump was badEuropean leaders have found their nemesis in Viktor Orbán, whose legislation closing down the Central European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sliding towards autocracyA defining characteristic of this populist form of autocracy is the rejection of diversity and the attack on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Hungarian government's war on free speechWhy is the Hungarian government targeting the country's most prominent university?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Orban regime takes Horthy’s Hungary as an exampleOne 1941 law passed under the ultra-nationalist and Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy banned all forms of sexual...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The mystery of ‘populism’ finally unveiledThe philosopher of post-Fascism enters the populism fray with his own candidate for post-truth – Left betrayal. Czech.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The geopolitics of TrumpologyA look at the curious emergence of pro-Trumpism among the far-right parties of Greece, Hungary and Estonia.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The crushing of independent press in HungaryOctober 8, 2016 will go down in Hungarian history as the day when the ideals of the 1956 revolution (when...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A Europe united against refugeesHungary may have been first to literally wall off some of its frontiers, but its example has since been copied, by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Illiberalism and authoritarianism can be successfully challenged in PolandThis past week Poland's PiS government suffered its first blow since coming to power nearly a year ago. It was an...
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Published in: HomeThe long reach of Orbán’s referendum experimentOrbán’s anti-Brussels rhetoric never contains any hint of Huxit; he would have too much to lose. But it affects the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Central and eastern Europe as playground of a conservative avant-gardeCentral and eastern European hard right parties have more rapid success than their western counterparts, due to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Anti-Immigration Referendum Sunday in HungaryOur first major interview on openDemocracy was on the ‘Post-Fascism’ thesis recently expounded by the Hungarian...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The creeping cull of cultural diversity in Orbán's HungaryAs Viktor Orbán's Hungary faces its 2 October referendum on European migrant quotas, diverse opinion is being...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Putin’s opposition in HungaryActivism and the retreat to digital niches actually increases the system-conformity of Orbán’s opposition, just as...
