The legendary financier-and founder of the Open Society Institute-offers crucial insight into the real meaning of freedom, and how societies can best promote it

After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democracy, human rights and open society. As a survivor of the Holocaust and a life-long proponent of free expression, Soros understands the meaning of freedom. And yet his differences with George Bush, another proponent of freedom, are profound.

In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's. He reflects on why the Democrats may have lost the high ground on these values issues and how they might reclaim it. As he has in his recent books, On Globalization and The Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros uses facts, anecdotes, personal experience and philosophy to illuminate a major topic in a way that both enlightens and inspires.

許多人都夢想使世界變得更美好，但是和大多數人相比，索羅斯說自己是幸運的，因為他能比他們更好地實現這個夢想。作為對世界金融市場具有重要影響力的人物，索羅斯試圖通過自己的力量改變世界。

索羅斯被認為是“打垮英格蘭銀行的人”，也被指責為“1997年亞洲金融危機的始作俑者”。他是一個攫取巨額財富的金融大鰐，也是一個聲名卓著的慈善傢和社會活動傢。自1979年以來，索羅斯成瞭一名活躍的慈善傢，開始幫助黑人學生進入種族隔離下南非的開普敦大學就讀。他成立瞭一個遍布全球50多個國傢的慈善網絡組織，緻力於倡導民主和開放社會的價值觀。該基金組織網絡每年的支齣約為4.5億美元。