Illiberal Secularism. Fake Inclusion through Neutrality

Privacy through Fake yet Semantically Real Traces

Camouflaging data by generating fake information is a wellknown obfuscation technique for protecting data privacy. The effectiveness of this technique in protecting users’ privacy highly depends on the resemblance of fake information to reality, such that an adversary cannot easily filter such fake information out. In this paper, we focus on a very sensitive and increasingly exposed type of dat...

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The Circulation of Secularism

Inquiring into the causes behind the spread of secularism in the modern world, this paper proposes that the concept has proliferated owing to its peculiar property as culture: It is simultaneously a piece of culture and also a reflection upon culture. In its latter capacity, it imagines a world in which alternative religious belief systems divide people. It spreads as a piece of culture because...

The Global Importance of Illiberal Moderates

In contrast to the claim that the most significant fault line in contemporary global affairs is between the civilisation of the West and all others, this essay argues that the schism between those who advance their values through violence and those who rely on persuasion, both of which are present in all civilisations, is the greatest source of conflict in the post-Cold-War era. Moderates come ...

1. Introduction: illiberal democracy in Hungary?

In social sciences literature, numerous attempts have been made to capture the political essence and features of Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ regime but few were aimed at analyzing specific public policy fields in the illiberal democracy. This paper analyses the cultural policy of the Orbán regime, focusing on the role of ideology. A qualitative case study based on document analysis looks at the legit...