Alex Soros Blasted as ‘Wrong Person to Lead’ in Damning NY Mag Profile
Alex Soros, son of George Soros, has been sharply criticized in a New York Magazine profile, which claims he is unfit to carry his father’s leadership mantle.
The profile, published Tuesday, quotes an anonymous source “with deep OSF ties”: “The real story is that every single person who knows the family knows that Alex was exactly the wrong person to lead the foundation.”
George Soros began his philanthropic network in the mid-1980s, which later became known as the Open Society Foundations (OSF).
In June 2023, Soros passed the leadership torch to his son, Alex.
The New York Magazine piece, authored by Simon van Zuylen-Wood, states: “In private, he is brooding and cerebral and has a propensity for candor and bursts of hot-temperedness.”
It continues:
“His halting, Peter Thiel–like baritone is full of ahs and ums, and his sentences can sound like records skipping, as if he were unable to easily put into language what is clear in his mind.
This slightly tortured persona has invited comparisons with his elder half-brother Jonathan, who sprang from Harvard Law School and a federal clerkship to work alongside his father in finance and philanthropy.”
Van Zuylen-Wood writes that people, including OSF’s first president Aryeh Neier, believed that Jonathan Soros—a co-founder and partner of the investment firm One Madison Group—would be his father’s successor, Fox News reported.
“When Soros insiders try to explain the family dynamic, they draw on the standard texts of empire and heredity,” van Zuylen-Wood says.
“‘Roman is Alex,’ says a former OSF senior official, referring to Roman Roy, the sardonic failson in Succession. ‘Smart but f**king impossible and not particularly interested in the details.’ Another Soros insider cites not HBO but the Gospel of Luke, casting Alex in the role of the Prodigal Son, who is rewarded with his father’s love despite his wayward years.”
Alex Soros held a fundraiser at his New York City apartment for Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz in 2024 and posted photos of the event on X.
According to the magazine, Alex Soros “created a PR headache by posting photos from the event on social media, as is his custom after meeting heads of state and elected officials. (As a former OSF higher-up says, Alex likes to collect ‘shiny objects.’)”
The piece also highlights that Alex Soros’ X account is filled with photos of powerful Democrats, including:
- Former Vice President Kamala Harris
- Former Presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton
- Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro
- Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
- World leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, the late Pope Francis, and Ukrainian Head of Presidential Administration Andriy Yermak
According to a Media Research Center study, Alex Soros has politicized mass shootings and praised Biden’s “disastrous” 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, while also supporting the abolition of the Electoral College.
Alex Soros has donated more than $5 million to federal political coffers since 2018, with records showing his largest single contribution was $2 million to the Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC during that time.
The New York Magazine profile questions the 39-year-old’s ability to be an effective leader.
“Exactly how to push back against the [Trump] madness he leaves unclear,” van Zuylen-Wood wrote.
“Nor does he offer any coherent agenda for the Democrats, whose roiling, inconclusive debates can seem personified by Alex himself. He was a regular presence at the Biden White House, one-half of an odd power couple, yet few in the broader political universe have a grasp of how he thinks about the world and plans to spend the wealth at his disposal.
That money could help determine the fate not only of a rudderless Democratic Party but of a country that every day is disappearing legal residents and immigrants, shaking down universities, defying court orders, and otherwise taking aim at the very open society his father’s global philanthropy exists to uphold.”
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