context, he rejected notions of the government going after the George Soros funded Central European University, arguing that the relevant and controversial amendment to the law on higher education affects some 28 foreign institutions, 27 of which were found to be operating with "irregularities" ("largely sloppy paperwork, something that will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with university admin") and that none has been fined or shut down. Fischer posits that the CEU "is not being singled out for punishment" but "asking to be given privileged treatment." In response to it, the newspaper received letters from CEU president Michael Ignatieff, Brian J. Dooley, of Human Rights First, and others, who expressed their opposition to Fischer's views, arguing that the amendment requires the operation of a campus in CEU's country of origin, something that "would effectively make it impossible for CEU to operate in Hungary," and denying that the university has sought "special privileges." Works Novels Under the Frog (1992) The Thought Gang (1994) The Collector Collector (1997) Voyage to the End of the Room (2003) Good to be God (2008) The Hungarian Tiger (2014) How to Rule the World (2018) Collections Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid (2000) (US title: I Like Being Killed) Crushed Mexican Spiders (2011) References External links Tibor Fischer at the complete review Interview of Tibor Fischer at the identitytheory literary website, 2004 1959 births 20th-century English male writers 20th-century British short story writers 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English male writers 21st-century British short story writers 21st-century English novelists Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge English male novelists English male short story writers English people of Hungarian descent English short story writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature International Writing Program alumni Living people People from Stockport British social commentators