Hungarian society from the outside
Hungarian Spectrum
Hungarian Spectrum is an English-language blog about Hungarian politics. The dirth of information on Hungary in the foreign languagemedia is quite appalling. Therefore there is certainly a need for such a blog. Hungarian Spectrum follows Hungarian politics on a daily basis. In a few paragraphs one can find out the most important news of the day with some personal commentary. The creator of the blog is Eva S. Balogh who left Hungary in 1956. She is a historian who is very much interested in politics.
Eva S. Balogh received her B.A. in history at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She continued her education at Yale University: M.A. in Russian and East European Studies and Ph.D. in History. She taught at Yale University concentrating on East European history, the diplomatic history of World War I, and nationalism. In addition, she served as dean of Morse College, one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University. Since 1994 she has thrown herself into a new field: current Hungarian politics. And in case she sounds single-minded, she has bred and shown basset hounds.
You can read her international perspective concerning events in Hungary on a regular basis in the "Hungarian Spectrum" section of BTOnline.
Hungary Economy Watch
Hungary Economy Watch Edward 'the bonobo' is a Catalan economist of British extraction based in Barcelona. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".