Danube Institute Podcast
The Danube Institute was established by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in 2013 in Budapest, with the aim of encouraging the transmission of ideas and people within the countries of Central Europe and between Central Europe, other parts of Europe, and the English-speaking…
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Who's In, Who's Out - Scott Newman & Isabelle Heinemann | Part Two | Danube Culture (opens the original)
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We all know what we mean by the Western Canon. Or do we? The Canon comes from nowhere and everywhere. A smelted down best-of-the best of the things our culture has truly loved. But at its borderlands, there are constant wars for what should be included. Culture always evolves. We see the same Roman poets quite differently to how the Victorians did. At its core, things like Shakespeare sit firmly within the redoubt. But is Henry James worthy? And is Trollope not? Magrite - yes; Koons no? Dr Jonat
Cultural and ideological parallels between Britain and Hungary | Calum T. M. Nicholson on Danube Lectures (opens the original)
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We asked Calum T. M. Nicholson, Director of Research at the Danube Institute, about the similarities between the British and the Hungarian mentality, and the future for British and Hungarian conservatism. The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.
Who's In, Who's Out? - Scott Newman & Isabelle Heinemann | Part One | Danube Culture (opens the original)
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We all know what we mean by the Western Canon. Or do we? The Canon comes from nowhere and everywhere. A smelted down best-of-the best of the things our culture has truly loved. But at its borderlands, there are constant wars for what should be included. Culture always evolves. We see the same Roman poets quite differently to how the Victorians did. At its core, things like Shakespeare sit firmly within the redoubt. But is Henry James worthy? And is Trollope not? Magrite - yes; Koons no? I’m Dr J
The timeless significance of the Declaration of Independence | Lee J. Strang on Danube Lectures (opens the original)
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We asked Lee J. Strang, a legal scholar and Executive Director at the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University, about whether the Declaration of Independence, the "birth certificate" of the United States, was legally and lawfully adopted under the British laws of the time.The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians –
Enoch Powell's Life & Legacy - A Debate With Simon Heffer, Maurice Glasman, Tim Montgomerie & Co | Danube Politics (opens the original)
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In March of this year, The Danube Institute hosted a panel in London on the life and legacy of Enoch Powell. Powell was a poet, and a classicist, and a brigadier, and a monetarist. It is of course for his thoughts on immigration that he has fallen into the pages of history. We wanted to think about Powell in the round — this most impressive of men, the youngest this and the youngest that, who franked his personality into the Conservative Party, who saw the two great challenges of the late twenti
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