Rise and Fall of the Middle Class

Masks and marches in NYC and Madrid that have captured our attention since 2011 were formed by those ambitious, hopeful and good people who demonstrated their protest against a fateful future.

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EUROPE

• Survey: What is the condition and political significance of the middle class in the region? by Iveta Radičová, Gábor Takács, Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Roman Joch, Vladimír Špidla, Ondřej Liška
• The Way Things Stand    Péter Nádas
• In Search of a Usable Past: Who Were the Ancestors of Polish Middle Class?     Tomasz Zarycki

THINKS TANKS WATCH

• Banking Battlegrounds     Marc Lanthemann (Stratfor’s Europe Analyst)

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS

• Deregulation and New Trust in the State.  Interview with László Csaba by Martin Ehl
• Who Fights for the Middle Class?     Igor Janke
• Chinese Middle Class at European Doorsteps     Marta M. Golonka

INTERVIEW

• The Traumatic Symbol of the Middle Class. Interview with Don Kalb by Zoltán Sidó and Dénes Csurgó

INTELLIGENT MIND

• The End of Future    Rudolf Chmel
• Farmers in Fairy-Tale Land. Poland and the European Crisis     Marcin Król
• The Land of Dilemmas     Magdalena M. Baran
• Interview with Timothy Garton Ash by Wojciech Przybylski

VISEGRAD ABROAD

• Ukrainian “Stagnarchy” Buries the Eastern Partnership As We Know It     Alexander Duleba
• A View From the Potomac     Robert Kron
• The Visegrad Group in Eastern Europe: an Actor, Not a Leader (Yet)     Jana Kobzová

COMMUNITIES

• The Rusyn Revival in Slovakia – or How to Create a Nationality at the Margin of Europe    Paul Bauer

REPORTAGE

• Tramps, Hikers, Nature Lovers – a New Era of Wanderlust    Szabina Kerényi
• Photo reportage from the Tatra mountains     Krzysztof Pacholak

URBAN

• The Chances of Cultural Renewal in Hungary     András Bozóki

BOOKS

• When Literature Becomes Politics: Probing the Visegrád Countries’ Systems of Literary Awards Marek Sečkař
• Winged Victory of the Nike. The System of Literary Prizes in Poland     Cezary Polak
• Literary Awards as Feedback in Literary Communication: The Typology of Literary Awards in Slovakia     Pavol Rankov
• Conservative Confirmation or Progressive Lottery? The World of Czech Literary Awards     Eva Klíčová
• My Prizes    Endre Kukorelly
• Literary Prizes in Hungary. A Short Survey     Orsolya Karafiáth

LOOKING BACK/ARTS

• Irritation, Unrest, and the Politics of Questioning: the Eventful Relationships of Art and Nationalism      Margaret Tali
• Art Museums Among  Tectonic Movements     Gábor Rieder

OPPORTUNITIES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Social Innovation in the Limelight    Judit Barta
• Summer School Central     Natalia Sawicka

ESSAY

• The Metamorphosis of the District. Gergely Angyalosi  on a book by Adam Bodor