Danube Institute
@InstituteDanube
Think tank based in Budapest, founded by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation.💡
🗣🇺🇸 “@roddreher's friendship changed my life” – @JDVance praised the Director of the @InstituteDanube’s Network Project at the Washington premiere of Live Not By Lies movie. 📣U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, spoke movingly about his friendship with…
Get ready to meet @roddreher, Visiting Fellow @InstituteDanube at #MCCFeszt! Based on his hit book Live Not by Lies, join us for a gripping screening of his new documentary and unfiltered conversation on freedom, faith, and fighting back. Program & Tickets:…
Just hit a major milestone: my first-ever piece published in the @WSJ. In “Send JD Vance to Africa,” Nicholas Naquin and I argue that the U.S. must engage Africa as a strategic partner, not a charity case. @VP should take the lead in doing so. wsj.com/opinion/send-j…
Thanks to all who came out yesterday. I am developing François Jullien’s intuition — in conversation with Philip Pilkington — that the Christian sources of Hegelian thought offer new resources for dialogue with, & within, China. More to come. @InstituteDanube @philippilk
Danube Lectures - interview with Ambassador @MayaKadosh @InstituteDanube youtu.be/VrCof1k0qpI?si…
Essay: The Western Roots of China & the Chinese Roots of the West. David Dusenbury, Philip Pilkington. Hungarian Conservative, 2025. hungarianconservative.com/articles/philo…
IWP M.A. candidate Thornton "Hoop" Christine will discuss "Geopolitics Through the Lens of Star Wars" at a @InstituteDanube event on 6/24: danubeinstitute.hu/en/events/empi…
Hungary was smeared as a 'fascist dictatorship', now the world is seeing the truth. @BalazsOrban_HU on @RubinReport. Watch now here: rumble.com/v6v3d4x-how-me…
With dialectical materialism, Marx tried to rid Hegel’s dialectical idealism of its Christian hopes & ideals. But what if the ‘dialectic’ is a Romantic Christian structure? This & more in Part II: “The Western Roots of China”. @philippilk @InstituteDanube @hu_conservative
Join me and @InstituteDanube this July 3 to discuss the future of #US and #Hungary relations during the second term of @realDonaldTrump #USA #Europe #Trump #politics
Strange to say, but “laissez-faire” begins with a French idea of China. — For this & much more, see the new essay on “The Chinese Roots of the West” that I’ve cowritten with Philip Pilkington. Part II is out tomorrow. @philippilk @InstituteDanube @hu_conservative
18 June 2025: Topchubashov Center`s Director @RusifHuseynov2 visits 🇭🇺 @InstituteDanube, meets with Executive Director István Kiss. 🤝 The meeting focused on the implementation of the MoU signed in Baku in April 2025, explored concrete avenues for collaboration.
Divided Atlantic: The Future of Transatlantic Relations, a roundtable discussion on the changing transatlantic relationship, was held on Day 2 of the BGD. 💭 The main question was: how does USA domestic policy affect the countries of the African Union? 🇺🇸 The Trump…
🧵1/ Can Africa become the defining foreign policy theatre of the 21st century? Two @InstituteDanube fellows say yes — and argue it’s time the US treated the continent not as a charity case, but a strategic partner. Here’s what they propose.👇
📣 @Michael_F_OShea: Americans Are Tired of the Chaos Caused by Open Borders 🎙️ 🇺🇸 “In the United States, a paralyzing, immovable bureaucracy now prevents the enforcement of immigration laws. Judges, officials, and the Washington elite all repeat the same line: it’s impossible…
'I don't think it's offensive, I think it's historically illiterate.' Historian David Oldroyd-Bolt reacts after it's reported the Churchill fellowship fund has been used to spread the work of the Migration Museum.
On today's #NCFNewspeak: Northern Ireland in flames A knighthood for anti-British failure Sadiq Khan? Is Britain's fossilized regime (politicians, civil service, media, universities etc.) in its death throes? WATCH: youtu.be/k8RVRlRWS2M With @RafHM, @StanduptoWoke &…
🏙️ “Budapest feels like what Europe used to be 30 years ago.” 🎙️ In the latest View from the Danube, 🇺🇸 @roddreher & 🇭🇺 @KissIstvnSteve1 talk about what surprises Western visitors most when they arrive in #Hungary—and why many don't want to leave. ⏯️ Watch now on YouTube! 🔗…
V. pleased to be back @InstituteDanube today to give a lecture on "Western Resources for China" with a focus on Romantic dialectics & a young Hegel's Christian texts, in the Lónyay-Hatvany Villa. Conversation to follow with @philippilk. Do join if you can: danubeinstitute.hu/en/events/west…