A politically motivated attack on intellectuals in Hungary. If Agnes Heller was not involved,
this probably would not have made as much of a splash outside of Hungary.
Some prehistory.
And some more developments.
A fact to be aware of: in Hungary, various scholarly institutes are bureaucratically subordinated to a mandarin Academy.
Names: József Pálinkás (senile authoritarian, Orban's stooge); György Gábor (an honest philosopher of religions at the Philosophy institute); János Boros (a provincial outsider, Palinkas' man); M. István Fehér (right-wing philosopher).
The disgusting thing is that, with all its anti-Communist talk, and the very excessive veneration of Hungarian suffering during Soviet era, Orban's program, under the guise of pragmatism, is reproducing the worst features of a, o well, police state.

More on Egypt. A friend forwarded me this interview with Gilbert Achcar. Some high points.

...most of the Egyptian opposition, starting with the Muslim Brotherhood, have been sowing illusions about the army and its purported “neutrality,” if not “benevolence.”

The model they aspire to reproduce in Egypt is that of Turkey, where the democratization process was controlled by the military with the army remaining a key pillar of the political system.

The regime conceded a lot to <Muslim Brotherhood> in the socio-cultural sphere, increasing Islamic censorship in the cultural field being but one example.

Rached Ghannouchi's Tunisian Nahda movement "has much less influence in Tunisia than the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt" because"the Tunisian society is less prone than the Egyptian to religious fundamentalist ideas, due to its higher degree of Westernization and education, and the country's history."

Here's Joshua Stacher at Foreign Affairs about the army:
The regime remained cohesive throughout by pursuing a sophisticated strategy of unleashing violence upon the people and then saving them from it. Sophisticated!? Stacher's pessimism, when combined with such placid neutrality of language, is a questionable proposition.
He mentions two Egyptian activists, who drew attention to Mubarak's (or is it already Soleiman's?) game: Hossam el-Hamalawy and Mahmoud Salem.
Interestingly, he says that those who met Soleiman on Sunday broke ranks with the protesters.. He may have something there.