**An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom,
and human rights.
**George Soros -- universally known for his philanthropy, progressive
politics, and investment success--has been under sustained attack from
the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites in the United States and
around the world because of his commitment to open society and liberal
democracy.
In this brilliant and spirited book, Soros brings together a vital
collection of his writings, some never previously published. They deal
with a wide range of important and timely topics: the dangers that the
instruments of control produced by artificial intelligence and machine
learning pose to open societies; what Soros calls his "political
philanthropy"; his founding of the Central European University, one of
the world's foremost defender of academic freedom; his philosophy; his
boom/bust theory of financial markets and its policy implications; and
what he calls the tragedy of the European Union. Soros's forceful
affirmation of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, social
justice, and social responsibility as a universal idea is a clarion
call-to-arms for the ideals of open society.
