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Dr. Marc Roscoe Loustau (www.marcloustau.org) is a cultural anthropologist and expert on Eastern European religion and politics. He lives in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of the Substack newsletter At the Edges, With Marc Loustau.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Two million people have already fled Ukraine, many to European nations that resisted accepting refugees from the Middle East. Will this new crisis force a reckoning on the treatment of all displaced persons?
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Some activists in Hungary have reacted to an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. law by calling for an investigation of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, writes Marc Roscoe Loustau. But turning the crisis into a political football may backfire.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pope Francis spoke of the importance of appreciating the Roma community’s culture and traditions and apologized for the church’s inability “to defend you in your uniqueness.”
Politics & SocietyShort Take
The pope will visit a section of Romania with a large ethnic Hungarian population—and a Marian shrine that has attracted allies of the autocratic, anti-migrant Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán.