By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles Magazine, January 7, 2025
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor of Chronicles, is the author of The Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad.
(Editor’s Note: Significant parts of this article are taken from the 2019 Chronicles article “George Soros and the Cult of Death.”)
In the waning days of his final term, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, to 19 people at a White House ceremony. One of the recipients was Hillary Clinton, which was controversial enough. Even worse, the Hungarian-born “philanthropist” and Democratic megadonor George Soros, was another.
Addressing the ceremony, Joe Biden said the awardees have used “their remarkable gifts and unwavering passion to strengthen our resolve as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The White House statement said that Soros had “supported organizations and projects across the world that strengthen democracy, human rights, education and social justice.”
This is nonsense. It recalls a similar event six years ago. In December 2018, the Financial Times selected George Soros as its “Person of the Year.” The paper said the choice was made for the values he represents as “the standard bearer of liberal democracy and open society,” battling against authoritarianism, racism, and intolerance: …