The Conservative Émigré’s Guide to Hungary

Dear friend,

Like Chateaubriand fleeing revolutionary terror for London, you have escaped the perversions of Joe Biden’s America for Viktor Orbán’s Budapest, a beacon of tradition, culture, and sound conservative governance on the banks of the Danube. Unfortunately, your travails are not over, at least not yet. Before you can get back to the important business of writing about Catholic Integralism or why the Anti-Federalists are the true heroes of the American Founding, you must first immerse yourself in the strange world of the Magyars, whose impenetrable language and bizarre cultural practices have baffled outsiders for centuries. But fear not! To ease this daunting transition, your faithful correspondent has produced a glossary of key Hungarian terms. Sok szerencsét!

WC

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Will Collins

Will Collins is a high-school teacher in Budapest, Hungary.

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Dear friend,

Like Chateaubriand fleeing revolutionary terror for London, you have escaped the perversions of Joe Biden’s America for Viktor Orbán’s Budapest, a beacon of tradition, culture, and sound conservative governance on the banks of the Danube. Unfortunately, your travails are not over, at least not yet. Before you can get back to the important business of writing about Catholic Integralism or why the Anti-Federalists are the true heroes of the American Founding, you must first immerse yourself in the strange world of the Magyars, whose impenetrable language and bizarre cultural practices have baffled outsiders for centuries. But fear not! To ease this daunting transition, your faithful correspondent has produced a glossary of key Hungarian terms. Sok szerencsét!