Magyar Narancs is a weekly liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 magazine

Magazine

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 with a strong satiric tone appearing on Thursdays in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. It is informally referred to as Mancs (Paw in English) which is a joking abbreviation of the name. The language of the magazine is unique in that it uses everyday speech and not the strict language of common Hungarian journalism

Journalism

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. It has a great effect on the Hungarian liberal-libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 intellectual

Intellectual

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 society. It includes articles mainly on politics

Politics

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, culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 and sociology

Sociology

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.

The name

The name is a reference to the communist-era attempt to cultivate oranges in Hungary, which failed. The climate is not suitable and the oranges didn't ripen fully, and they were almost yellow and had a sour taste. This was parodied by the movie A tanú (The Witness), where the only fruit from the plantation is eaten by a boy, just before being presented to the great leader. In order to salvage the situation, a lemon is used as a replacement. The leader's reaction to the substitution (It's small, yellow, bitter, but it's OURS!) gave rise to the term "Hungarian orange", which has since become a metaphor, similar to the "goulash communism

Goulash Communism

Goulash Communism or Kádárism refers to the variety of communism as practised in the Hungarian People's Republic from the 1960s until the collapse of Communism in Hungary in 1989...

" used abroad. It was used to refer to the pseudo-communism in the communist era and to the pseudo-capitalism after the country became a democracy, and other phenomena. The orange was also used as the logo by the Fidesz

Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union

The Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union is a major conservative party in Hungary. At the 2010 election in Hungary, Fidesz-KDNP won a two-thirds majority of seats by gaining 52% of the votes, with Fidesz winning 227 seats and KDNP winning 36...

 (currently centre-right

Centre-right

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, but started as libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

) party, for similar reasons. This however caused confusion since Fidesz became a conservative-populist party and the magazine did not want to be identified with the changed party. To solve this, recently the orange basic colour of the magazine's headline has been changed to yellow which is also the actual colour of the "Hungarian orange", a lemon. (This however is not visible on the website cited below)