Keyword – conservativism

Pintér, Melinda:

The political reversal of the Republican Party since the 1930s and the role of the conservative press

This study presents a topic that has so far played a smaller role in Hungarian analytical works: the relationship between the Republican Party’s shift to the right and the conservative press, especially with regard to the conservative movement that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Republican Party’s shift to the right since the 1930s and then its entire conservative turn in the 1960s are reflected in the media in general and especially in the print press: the number of dedicated conservative publications increases or changes in terms of their subject area in response to the changing ideology of the Republican Party and other conservative movements outside the party system. This study details the causes and practical implementation of the ideological change of the Republican Party, and then examines the changes taking place in the party and the Conservative side as a whole by reviewing the conservative journals of the 20th century, with great emphasis on the National Review magazine, founded in 1955.

Keywords: American party system, conservativism, conservative movement, conservative turn, liberalism, libertarianism, National Review, New Deal coalition, neoconservativism, Republican Party

Szénási, Zoltán:

Changes in Új Nemzedék’s Ady-image between 1919 and 1929

In 1919, Új Nemzedék, a political daily founded in 1913, was re-launched as an outlet for the radical right. It evinced a strongly anti-Semitic rhetorical stance after the fall of the Hungarian Republic of Councils, which also dominated the discussion of actual cultural events. It made an effort to create a Christian-national literary canon in the post-1919 years in an attempt to integrate not only the representatives of national conservatism into the canon, but also the “Christian” authors of Nyugat (Ady, Babits, and Móricz). After 1922, a change in the editorial board brought about a change in the opinion on Ady. His poetical significance was not at all doubted later, yet the political and moral objections which characterised the nationalist conservative literary perspective of the period resurfaced. In addition to describing the changing Ady-image of Új Nemzedék, this paper aims to explore how the process related politically to the history of journalism and criticism.

Keywords: anti-semitism, conservativism, cult of Ady, Új Nemzedék, political Catholicism, radical right