What is liberalism? & what are the prospects of a liberal world order in the restive 2020s? In a new Buda Hills ep., Philip Pilkington offers his thoughts, from the English Civil War to the rise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, & introduces his new book. Listen here https://t.co/lcfbm9gQy9
"In war it is acceptable to lie to your enemy", says Prof. David Betz of King's College London, "lying to yourself, though, is the kiss of death". In this episode of Buda Hills, we discuss the ways in which he thinks the collective West is lying to itself: https://t.co/iNTnTD3kel
What is unfolding in the long 2020s (whether we like it or not)? Out soon with @BudaHills, Philip Pilkington on "the collapse of global liberalism".
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Communist states have a millennial sense of utopianism. But is lib. democracy utopian, too? Could it be that our democratic utopianism is presentist? This is what our guest Prof. Zoltán Balázs argues in this episode of @BudaHills (with @DusenburyDavid). https://t.co/zCguits4qP
Communist states had, & still have, a millennial sense of utopianism. But is secular liberal democracy utopian, too? This is what Professor Zoltán Balázs of Corvinus University argues in a new episode of @BudaHills. Listen here: https://t.co/aEStprqldW
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In his 1956 "Critique of Utopia", Hungarian philosopher Aurel Kolnai wrote: "Utopia is 'real' enough." What did he mean? & what does this help us to see? In a new episode of @BudaHills, Professor Zoltán Balázs of Corvinus University tells us. Listen here: https://t.co/aEStprqldW
Great to sit down yesterday in Budapest with Profs David Betz & David Martin Jones of the War Studies Dept. at King's College London, to record a new episode of @BudaHills on what Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai might call "war & war" (the title of a 1999 novel).
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Recording a new episode of @BudaHills podcast today with David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at @KingsCollegeLon & contributor to @WarOnTheRocks. @HendrKim & I will be joined by a guest co-host: Prof. David Martin Jones of King's & @InstituteDanube. Our topic is war.
Great to sit down today with Prof. Balázs Zoltán & co-host Eric Hendriks to record a new episode of the Buda Hills Podcast on Aurel Kolnai's "Critique of Utopia" (1956), on utopian dimensions of modern politics, & on apocalyptic geopolitics.
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Is Samuel Huntington's idea of an "Orthodox heartland" prescient, or in need of refinement? A social & intellectual historian, Dr Samuel Noble, joins @BudaHills to discuss the 21st-century geopolitics of Orthodoxy. Listen here https://t.co/4rJ4cvBe5i
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Dr. Samuel Noble @TricycleRepair spoke at Danube about Orthodox Christianity and its political entanglements. He suggested there might now be “NATO and non-NATO flavours of Orthodox Christianity.” The video of the event will soon be available on our website.
Very much looking forward to sitting down this week with my cohost, Dr Eric Hendriks, & our guest, Dr Samuel Noble, to record a new episode of the @BudaHills Podcast. Our topic: the geopolitics of Orthodox Christianity. Not to be missed!
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Great conversation with Prof. David Pan yesterday on "different cosmopolitanisms", west & east; on how they might collide; & on how cultural "translation" can help us in perilous times. New episode of the Buda Hills Podcast out soon.
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Very pleased to be sitting down with Prof. David Pan & my cohost Eric Hendriks this afternoon to record a new episode of the Buda Hills Podcast on cosmopolitanism, tianxia ("all under heaven"), & the vicissitudes of world culture.
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Very pleased that David Pan, Editor of Telos Journal & Professor of European Languages & Studies at the University of California, Irvine, will be joining the @BudaHills Podcast next week for a wide-ranging conversation. More to come --
"The great task of our lifetime is to avoid a war between the United States & China."
- David Goldman on @BudaHills. Listen here: https://t.co/Sffg0hlPEt
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