In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Will Collins
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When Viktor Orbán lost his reelection bid in April, political dissidents, foreign workers, and liberal young Hungarians breathed a collective sigh of relief. After years of working in the shadows, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Vietnamese bike couriers could finally deliver food and alcohol without fear of arrest or deportation. Suddenly, a range of sex toys appeared…
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In early November, the Chinese fast fashion giant Shein opened its first European store in the heart of downtown Paris. The reaction was, to put in mildly, mixed: bargain-hunters flocked to the store but riot police had to physically remove protesters for setting off a stink bomb. The contrast between enthusiastic shoppers, stink bomb-wielding activists,…
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Two very different houses stand on the grounds of Woodlawn Plantation, a historic landmark just across the Potomac from Washington, DC. The larger building is a stately Georgian manor built in 1799 as a wedding gift from George Washington to Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha Washington’s daughter from a previous marriage. The smaller is the Pope-Leighey…
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The story of the last decade of Hungarian politics can be told through a series of clashes between Fidesz, the ruling conservative party, and academia. The opening move came in 2018, when the government banned gender studies across public universities. Central European University (CEU), a private, American-style institution, was largely pushed out of Budapest in…
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Writing in 1948, the caustic left-wing historian AJP Taylor sounded a rare hopeful note in the final chapter of The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918, his book on the autumn of one of Europe’s great dynasties: Over 75 years later, this passage reads as wishful thinking on the part of a Tito-sympathizing academic. With the benefit of…