Behind the News: Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary w/ Anita Zsurzsán
The historian Kyle Shybunko also joins.
April 20, 2026
53 min
1,837 of 1,867
April 20, 2026
Behind the News: Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary w/ Anita Zsurzsán
0:00 / 53:00
Excerpt playback isn’t available for this episode — use the full-episode link.
Search the Record
Moment search isn’t open for this episode yet
When it opens, you’ll be able to type any phrase and jump straight to the second it was said.
Jacobin Episodes Around April 20, 2026
Episode 1,837 of 1,867 — walk the feed in the order it was published.
53:00This episodeBehind the News: Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary w/ Anita Zsurzsán
Summary
<p>Hungary’s long-serving authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in an April 12 election. We get two views of what that means, from historian Kyle Shybunko and independent scholar Anita Zsurzsán.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html" rel="nofollow"><em>Behind the News</em></a>, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.</p>
Episode details and artwork are published by the show’s own feed. Sentinel plays short cited excerpts and links every episode back to its publisher.