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Michael O'Shea

Budapest, Pittsburgh
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Covers:  Central & Eastern Europe, U.S. Foreign Policy, Visegrád Group, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Ireland, Iceland, Catholicism, European Affairs, European Politics, Immigration
American-Polish Writer | Fmr Fellow @InstituteDanube | Catholic | Postliberal danubeinstitute.hu/en/authors/michael-o-shea

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Michael O'Shea’s Biography

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Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute and former Budapest Fellow. Dual citizen of the United States and Poland. Professional focus on Central & Eastern Europe. Polish & Hungarian language skills.

https://danubeinstitute.hu/en/authors/michael-o-shea

Michael O'Shea’s Journalist Portfolio

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'Africa Days' in Eastern Poland

'Africa Days' in Eastern Poland

Unless Poland charts a truly illiberal course, unaccountable business interests and NGOs are certain to conti…

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Saving 'Camp of the Saints'

Saving 'Camp of the Saints'

Ethan Rundell discusses The Camp of the Saints, its Amazon delisting, and the pretense of free speech.

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(Not) Rolling Out the Welcome Mat: Non-EU Migration in the V4

(Not) Rolling Out the Welcome Mat: Non-EU Migration in the V4

This paper examines the non-European migration landscapes that have developed in the four countries of the Vi…

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My Encounters With the SPLC

My Encounters With the SPLC

I was still learning how to be a father when the Southern Poverty Law Center came after me. ... I recognize t…

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Does the Pope Understand Europe? (Michael O'Shea) 4/7/26

Does the Pope Understand Europe? (Michael O'Shea) 4/7/26

We welcome author Michael O'Shea to discuss whether Pope Leo understands the deep cultural and spiritual cris…

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Hitből fakadó meggyőződéséért indulhat nyomozás egy izlandi pap ellen

Hitből fakadó meggyőződéséért indulhat nyomozás egy izlandi pap ellen

Az izlandi rendőrség mérlegeli, indítson-e bűnügyi nyomozást a Reykjavíki Egyházmegye kancellárja ellen, aki …

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‘Africa Days’ in Eastern Poland The Great Replacement proceeds unimpeded.

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By Michael O'Shea, As a half-century
| The American Spectator Verified
Across much of Central and Eastern Europe, locals exhibit a certain superiority toward their Western European neighbors in terms of immigration. It won’t happen here, it can’t happen here, goes the conventional wisdom. In Poland, this mindset increasingly conflicts with an uncomfortable reality: against the will of most Poles, Poland is becoming an immigration country.
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My Encounters With the SPLC When a new father becomes collateral damage in the liberal order’s war on dissent

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By Michael O'Shea
| The American Spectator Verified
I was still learning how to be a father when the Southern Poverty Law Center came after me. On a winter night during my corporate paternity leave in 2023, my Twitter started blowing up. A couple inconsequential kids were gloating. I had a sense of what it was. Someone from the SPLC had been snooping around my LinkedIn that week.
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Pope Leo, Lampedusa, and The Camp of the Saints

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By Michael O'Shea
| European Conservative Verified
On his native country’s 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV will visit Lampedusa, an Italian sovereign territory off the North African coast that has long been a destination for migrants seeking to enter Europe. In 2013, Pope Francis made it his first papal destination outside Rome. Publication of Pope Leo’s official calendar recalled Vice President JD Vance’s personal invitation to the United States for the anniversary festivities, an invitation the pope seems to have declined.
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