Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review), Bi-monthly, Vol., XIV. Nos. 7-8., August 2005, Budapest.
Editor-in-Chief: Gyula Kodolányi. Publisher: György Granasztói. Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation.
GYÖRGY GRANASZTÓI. A Crisis of the Union? Editor's Note.
SZILVESZTER E. VIZI, brain researcher, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. A Crisis in Demography and the Health Services. Hungary's special case within the general European crisis also includes low life expectancy among active men, a self-destructive life-style and struggling health services – all of them the heritage of the Communist era.
TAMÁS MELLÁR, economist, Former President of the National Bureau of Statistics, Budapest. The Market System: Goal or Means? Part I. The economics must serve society – and the succesful models of market economy are much more varied in the world than current neo-liberal textbooks suggest.
GYÖRGY SZAKOLCZAI, economist, Budapest. On the Imbalance of Our International Payments. The models of mathematical economics and an analysis of past cases indicate that the way out from Hungary's current balance of payments crisis is not through restrictive budgets but an economy of growth.
GYÖRGY GRANASZTÓI, historian, Director, Teleki László Institute, Budapest. The Nation – A Matter for the Heart of the Brain? An survey of the status in recent political science and social theory of the idea of the nation – its ancient roots and its current place in politics.
BÁLINT TÖRÖK, historian and journalist, Budapest. The Mountain – Twenty-Five Years After the Death of Áron Márton. The legendary bishop of the Hungarians of Transylvania remained a loyal pastor of his herd under persecution and surveillance, and he was throughout his life an intellectual and a protester of oppression and discrimination against humans of any creed and nationality, much esteemed by the late John Paul II.
GÁBOR ERDŐDY, historian, Ambassador to the Holy See, Rome – Csaba Fazekas, historian, University of Miskolc. Roots and Alternatives of Hungarian Christian Democracy. A summary view of 19th century beginnings, 20th century developments and present possibilities of the modern political movement.
TAMÁS SÁLYI, historian, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba. Britannia Ante Portas. Part II. The history of the British debate on European integration, the currents and transformations in British public thought and attitudes in the course of entry and the Union's internal debates.
ATTILA Z. PAPP, sociologist, Teleki László Institute, Budapest. Hungarian Editors in Romania. Part II. The political changes in Romania during the last fifteen years are emblematically reflected in the status and mentality of the editors of Hungarian language press in Transylvania.
GÁBOR CZAKÓ. Horrorendum. A piece from the Hungarian Horror Tales series.
1% METAPHYSICS. György Szabados has selected as his text a passage from Small Is Beautiful by Ernst F. Schumacher.
Books and Events
GÁSPÁR GRÓH. The Passing Years, and Vine-Hills. A review of Lajos Ambus' recent book of essays, an evocation of the spirit and literary stories of the vineyards and fruityards of Pannonia. (Az én szőlőhegyem, B.K.L. Kiadó, Szombathely, 2005).
ERZSÉBET KATONA SZABÓ. A Walk – Glimpses of the Gödöllő Workshop of Arts and Crafts. The co-chair of the Workshop, a gobelin artist who also works with leather, writes of their connection to the Gödöllő circle of a hundred years ago, to the garden as motif, and to contemporary challenges. A selection of their work, transcending the boundaries of applied arts, is shown in the present issue of Magyar Szemle.
MIHÁLY Kubinszky. Playful Works of Art. Our architecture columnist reports from Vienna, from the retrospective exhibition of the famous Marklin factory, makers of miniature railways and other high quality toys since many generations.
KATALIN METZ. Medeias and Sea Gulls. Our theatre columnist draws the balance of the annual festival of Hungarian theatre, POSZT, presented every year after the season's end in the Southern Hungarian city of Pécs.
JÁNOS G. GÁSPÁR. Our column of domestic affairs
PÉTER ÁKOS BOD. Waiting for the Normal EU Course of Affairs. The former chairman of the Hungarian National Bank examines the beneficial regulatory influence of Brussels on the loose macroeconomics of the Gyurcsány government, which begins to be felt after a year of warnings.
The present issue of Magyar Szemle is illustrated by works of the Gödöllő Workshop of Arts and Crafts.
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