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The Levitt Center invites you to attend: M Gessen's, Lessons from the 2026 Electoral Defeat of Hungary's Iliberal Strongman, Viktor Orban. 

Hosted by Sharon Rivera, Sidney Wertimer Professor of Government. RSVP for lunch here. 

Join us for a Levitt lunch discussion in advance of M. Gessen's Nov. 9th Tolles Lecture, "Politics of the Past and Politics of the Future." Led by Sidney Weritmer Professor of Government Sharon Rivera, the discussion will revolve around Gessen’s May 2026 New York Times dispatch from Budapest. 

M Gessen is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing. Prior to this role, they were a staff writer for The New Yorker. Their writing specializes in democracy, authoritarianism, gender and human rights. They are the author of eleven books, including The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the National Book Award in 2017. Their Tolles Lecture will take place on November 9 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel.