Orbán’s Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance it should be a model for the U.S.

The Central European University, founded by George Soros after the fall of communism, says the authoritarian government of Viktor Orbán forced 90% of its teaching operations out of the country.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The Central European University in Hungary’s capital still looks the part.

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Its limestone entrance rises above a grand 1820s mansion, its newer additions all hard modern lines and confidence. It has won architecture awards. It was built to suggest a certain kind of Hungary, too: outward-looking, liberal, at ease with the West.

Today it is eerily quiet.