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• In Hungary, Scandal and Crisis Suddenly Energize the Opposition

  By H. David Baer on March 19, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  ALTHOUGH ONE MIGHT NOT KNOW IT given Hungary’s current reputation, the country has noble liberal traditions. In 1848 Hungary gave birth to one of the most successful democratic revolutions in Europe, sadly suppressed after a year by Austrian and Russian… Read More ›

• How To Understand Germany’s Policy Toward Ukraine

  By H. David Baer on August 28, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attend a photo opportunity ahead of bilateral talks at the 2022 Munich Security Conference on February 19, 2022 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Alexandra Beier – Pool/Getty Images)

• Lashing Out, Rod Dreher (Again) Reveals His Ignorance of Hungary

  By H. David Baer on February 25, 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  People interested in Christianity, American politics, and the culture wars may have run across the name of Rod Dreher. He’s a rather prolific writer and journalist who maintains a regular blog with the magazine The American Conservative. Some years ago… Read More ›

• What Viktor Orbán Revealed This Weekend

  By H. David Baer on August 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Viktor Orbán has a habit of giving controversial speeches in Romania. His notorious 2014 illiberalism speech was delivered there. Just a few weeks ago, he delivered another whopper, which included unmistakably racist language. In an essay I wrote for The… Read More ›

• Jason Stanley on Fascism

  By H. David Baer on May 24, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In this episode of BaerTalk, Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, discusses his controversial book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Prof. Stanley is a prominent public intellectual who generates a fair bit… Read More ›

• Hungary’s Autocrat Orbán Fends Off Opposition Challenge

  By H. David Baer on April 15, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  I wrote this short article for The Bulwark on April 3, 2022, the night of Viktor Orbán’s big election victory. It was a first take, which I think has held up pretty well. You can read it here.

• What Was Putin Thinking?

  By H. David Baer on April 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In this episode of BaerTalk, Svetlana Savranskaya, a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives, talks about the war in Ukraine from the Russian perspective. She tries to get inside Putin’s head to explain what he might have been thinking… Read More ›

• Expect a Viktor Orbán Win Next Month

  By H. David Baer on March 22, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  This article was published in The Bulwark. Not only do I predict what will happen in Hungary’s election, but I explain why making this prediction is easy – because Hungary’s not a democracy. This first two paragraphs of the article… Read More ›

• The Long Walk of the Navajo Nation

  By H. David Baer on March 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In this episode of BaerTalk I talk about the history of the Navajo people with Patrick Moore, Executive Director of New Mexico Historic Sites, and Manuelito Wheeler, Director of the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona. The Navajo Nation… Read More ›

• Interview with Zoltán Fleck, Chair of Péter Márki-Zay’s Constitutional Working Group

  By H. David Baer on January 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Zoltán Fleck is a Professor of Law and Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. He was recently appointed by Péter Márki-Zay, the leader of Hungary’s democratic opposition, to head up a working group tasked with examining constitutional… Read More ›

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