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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025

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Since he's inherited one of the richest and most powerful activism networks, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look up Alexander Soros' dissertation to try to get some insight into him.

"‘Jewish Dionysus’: Heinrich Heine and the Politics of Literature"

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x51t409

However I am completely unfamiliar with History PhD dissertations. Skimming it over I only noticed that he seems very into being Jewish and also that I find the text incredibly uninteresting.

Does anyone who has some subject experience have any take aways?

The dissertation isn’t particularly deep or profound, but it displays a reasonable knowledge of Heine and his influences, with some reading done and some boilerplate analysis. It’s not something that would be offensive or embarrassing to have under your name.

[Alexander] Soros himself is kind of an interesting guy. He was a long time confirmed bachelor until, late last year, he got engaged to Huma Abedin (she’s 49, he’s 38). I think he spent his entire adult life in and around progressive academia and think tanks and largely adopted their worldview. Soros Sr is less political than often assumed even by close friends; it’s mostly his son. George’s politics are mainly motivated by not being hated by the left after he was slammed in the press for being ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’ and being the subject to a great deal of criticism as a rapacious speculator in the 1980s.

Marrying a divorcée who's eleven years older doesn't really shift the 'confirmed bachelor' assessment for me.

True, although I wouldnt have guessed that Huma was the type to be a beard and, in any case, being the progressive activist son of a progressive billionaire isn’t really the kind of thing where one needs one. It can’t be about an heir for Senior either (given he’s inheriting everything) because she’s too old to have more kids.

type to be a beard

Perhaps not for the median degenerate, maybe for billionaire with access to progressive power levers, pact with a demon, etc.

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