REVIEW OF THE BOOK THE CURSE OF POPULARITY: Hurray, populism! A spirit of the times in which the time for excuses is over

The Curse of Popularity (A népszerűség átka) has been reviewed in Hungarian and in English on the website Kultúra és Közösség by Almadi Sejla.

“From the approximately eleven crisply written but factual chapters, we can learn about the conceptual difficulties of (political) populism, its history from the 19th century to the present day, and its current characteristics broken down into individual countries, parties, movements and leaders. As a final conclusion, populism can be the highest expression of democracy, but it is at least the path leading to it, and by no means its opposite.”

The full text of the review is available at the link below:

17_Almadi_2023_03.pdf (kulturaeskozosseg.hu)

Visit of the Elderly Home of Order of Malta in Páty

“Defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor.“

In a common initiative of the Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Christian Democratic Institute in Hungary an official visit has been organized to the Elderly Home of the Order of Malta in Páty.

The visit was attended by Her Excellency Trine Skymoen, Ambassador of Norway, who took the elderly with her presentation on an excursion to Norway, bringing to live many wonderful images of her beloved country.

Review of the book The Curse of Popularity: Vox Populi, vox Dei?

The Curse of Popularity (A népszerűség átka) has been reviewed in Hungarian on the highly read Újkor.hu history education portal.

“The author of these lines does not wish to contribute to the extensive political science debates and to the intensification of the cavalcade of terminology; however, he wishes to praise the authors of The Curse of Popularity for having taken the concept of populism out of the mainstream canon of interpretation – if you like, out of the politically correct use of language and terms – and, in addition to the analysis of its historical antecedents, also focusing on contemporary phenomena.”

– Alex Pongrácz, the author

 

The full text of the review is available at the link below:

https://ujkor.hu/content/vox-populi-vox-dei-a-nepszeruseg-atka-es-a-populistak