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  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Dávid Vitézy

    On the model table of past and future – a conversation with Dávid Vitézy about the new Museum of Transport

    We are in a fascinating place: the size and complexity of the disused Northern Vehicle Repair Diesel-Hall in Kőbánya will surprise and impress even...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Attila Steiner

    "It is often the children who convince parents to go green" – an interview with State Secretary Attila Steiner

    Even those who used to bury their heads in the sand are starting to feel the effects of climate change. Forest fires, flash floods...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Gergely Fodor and Kata Molnár-Bánffy

    "Hungarians still live, Buda still stands!” – a conversation with Government Commissioner Gergely Fodor on the renovation of the Buda Castle Palace

    As Hungarians, we have many experiences of the Buda Castle. Class excursions, family visits, long studies in the Széchényi Library, exhibition experiences, performances in...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Image: Pixabay

    ‘God saved my life through my daughter’ – When adoption is a manifestation of love

    ‘I got pregnant when I was 17, I still went to high school. I didn’t plan my life that way, as soon as I...
  • Krisztián Szabó
    Yoram Hazony at Mathias Corvinus Collegium

    If we don't want to become America, where liberal democracy collapses into Marxism... - Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony on the future of conservative thinking

    " Conservatism: Return to the Basics" was the title of a lecture given in Budapest by Yoram Hazony, head of the Herzl Institute in...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Tristan Azbej and Kata Molnár-Bánffy

    "Not only the walls need to be rebuilt” – an interview with State Secretary Tristan Azbej

    Part of the self-respect of a nation, of a country, is the ability to show solidarity, to reach out to those with whom we...
  • Ágnes Németh
    Dr Péter Forgách

    „Many teenagers who believed in freedom died in the revolution”

    I feel it's my duty to embrace the goal of the boys in Pest in '56, and that's why I'm working to help Hungarian...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    The girl in the red coat

    This is how the girl in the red coat remembers the revolution: 'We breathed together'

    She did not even suspect that she would become a messenger of freedom when she put on her red coat and headed to the...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Ferenc Puskás

    The champion who found his way home - Ferenc Puskás has everything we Hungarians love about ourselves

    There aren’t many Hungarians who do not have at least one, direct or indirect memory of Ferenc Puskás. For me, the first of these...
  • Zsuzsa Máthé
    Antónia Zichy

    The most honoured daughter of the country - Countess Antonia Zichy, wife of Lajos Batthyány

    The consort of the martyred Prime Minister, Count Lajos Batthyány, executed on 6 October 1849, was not only a faithful wife but also an...
  • Melinda Hekler
    Péter Major Dr

    The story of the healing golden rice and the human-hearted bunny - or the benefits of genetic modification today

    Dr. Péter Major is best known for the cultural content of shoeshine.hu, one of the founding members of the organisation. But few people know...
  • Pál Horváth
    Tamás Bakócz

    The serf who almost became Pope - the life of Tamás Bakócz

    The greatest figure of the medieval Hungarian church, he went from a serf boy to a true Renaissance prince of the priesthood. Tamás Bakócz...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Dóra Székely

    How does a whale-obsessed little girl become a cetacean biologist working to protect and learn about the biggest mammals on Earth?

    " As a child, I was very attracted to whale stories such as 'Free Willy' or National Geographic episodes," says cetacean biologist Dóra Székely...
  • Kati Szám
    László Barabási-Albert

    Albert-László Barabási: "The responsibility of the scientist is to communicate clearly"

    I had a conversation with the world-renowned Hungarian network researcher. For once, I do not want to extend the following text with a lengthy...
  • Tímea Hajdú
    Jane Haining

    The story of a Scottish missionary who was taken to Auschwitz from Budapest

    As one of the leaders of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Jane Haining did her best to keep the school an island of...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Kata Molnár-Bánffy

    Kata Molnár-Bánffy: „Conservatism is not guarding the past, but the future”

    In her recent Facebook post, Kata Molnár-Bánffy urges us to dare to embrace our Christian values, to dare to speak about the importance of...
  • Pál Horváth
    János Esterházy

    „Our sign is the cross not the swastica” – A Hungarian count in Czechoslovakia

    The communist dictatorship has taken its victims during the decades of its rule, both within and beyond our borders, among Hungarians forced into minority...