Required reading for anyone who wants to understand not just how populism begins, but where it ends. Instead, Hungary has a rigged system, one in which the top layer of the economy is dominated by the prime minister’s friends. Magyar explains how this worked in Hungary, a country where cynicism and greed have led not only to the end of democracy but to the end of fair markets. Once government inspectors, courts and media are all politicised, run by people with links to the ruling party, there is no accountability and a mafia-like oligarchy will inevitably emerge. This is no accident, argues Bálint Magyar.
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungaryīálint Magyar (Central European University Press, 2016)Īuthoritarian populism is usually associated with a rise in corruption. Her latest book is Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. In 2004, she won a Pulitzer prize for Gulag: A History. Anne Applebaum on populismĪ Polish-American journalist and historian, Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at the Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. And we have the ability to surmount those obstacles, if we simply make the commitment, to paraphrase the great Yoda, to not just try, but do. In this breezy, concise primer on climate action, he explains why the only obstacles that remain are societal and political will.
Tom Bowman is a communication expert who has helped create museum experiences that engage and educate the public about climate change. But nothing could be more wicked than such unhelpful framing. Too often we encounter efforts to dismiss climate change as a “wicked” – that is, essentially unsolvable – problem. Resetting Our Future: What If Solving the Climate Crisis Is Simple?
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