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Demography Connected to Family or Culture? — The Israeli Case

‘The Israeli case is evidence that cultural aspects, rather than “family policies”, are the crucial element in producing above-replacement birth rates among an educated and affluent population. It is therefore crucial, for those countries which regard such outcome as desirable,…
Representatives of Athens and Corinth at the Court of Archidamas, King of Sparta, from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Should We Be Afraid of the ‘Thucydides Trap’?

The description of the Thucydides Trap is more a description of a spontaneous escalation rather than a well-calculated move towards changing the international order. Applied to the case of the US and China, the ‘Thucydides Trap’ is far removed from…
Prefabricated houses in Kecskemét, Hungary in 1973

The Era of Socialist Realism and Industrialized Prefabrication in Hungarian Architecture

To address the housing shortage, nearly 1 million dwellings were built under the housing programme between 1961 and 1975, 300,000 of them in Budapest; and a large part of the country’s population still lives in the apartments built during that…
Viktor Orbán receives Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony, President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem

A Conservative Dream? — A Review of Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism: A Rediscovery

‘The question I am left with about Hazony’s rediscovered conservatism is whether it is a conservatism that is, or could be, rediscovered, or is it a conservatism that has never existed. And, even if it did exist at one time,…
The Good Samaritan by Edward Stott (1910)

A Classical Conceptualization of Human Rights as the Antidote to Psychological Suffering: The Dominance of Western Progressive Human Rights in Practice

‘The flaw in the progressive hyper focus on moral rights is that it removes the ability of reality testing outside the subjective experience. Therefore, it feeds our narcissistic tendencies, which in turn enhances destructive behaviour, anxiety, depression, and above all,…
The Black Stain by Albert Bettannier, 1887

Do We Still Need Teachers?

‘The character of the educator is a fundamental determinant of the personal development of students, and in addition to professional knowledge, it has therefore been important throughout the centuries to be able to set an example also in the personality…
Jacques Daret, The Visitation (1434–1435). Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Germany

Let Us Define Our Identity Clearly! — Interview with Gábor Mohos, Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom-Budapest

‘One of the peculiarities of the Hungarian spirit is that—no doubt as a result of our historical past—we have an openness to a kind of spiritual attitude that is willing to make sacrifices, in prayer and fasting, to obtain peace.’…
Francisco Goya, The Madhouse (1808–1812). Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

Anna Édes: A Case Study of Mental Illness from the Past and for the Present

‘The story of the maid Anna Édes is the story of undiagnozed or unrecognized mental illnesses and their consequences, in contrast to today’s societies, primarily in the West, where mental illness is advocated to the point of virtue and people…
Illustration (education), Pixabay

What Is Really the Purpose of Education?

‘The education system has complex social functions, and it may only fulfil its purpose if it sees the child as a whole person. Although its competences as a set of institutions are, and shall be, limited, teaching and education must…
Key to a flat (illustration, housing)

Why Conservatives Should Care about Housing for Young People

‘Progressive responses to the housing crisis may be universal income or free housing, solutions which are neither sustainable nor desirable from a conservative perspective. However, a common discernment may be that the real estate market is unable to function in…

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