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Lessons Learned from My Hungarian Adventure

Both the American Right and Left misunderstand this small, Central European country, which I found to be both personally and professionally fascinating.

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Ilya Shapiro
Oct 18, 2022
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It’s been a week since I returned home from my European odyssey, which I previewed two weeks ago. After some “bonus tourism” in Brussels, where I hadn’t been since spending half of summer 2002 there as a Big Law summer associate, I arrived in Budapest for a week of activities hosted by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. MCC is a hybrid organization mixing …

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