The New York Magazine profile casts Alex Soros, recently appointed leader of the Open Society Foundations, in an unflattering light. Sources close to the Soros family express concerns over his suitability for the role. Alex is described as brooding and temperamental, with communication style issues often noted. Comparisons are drawn between him and his more accomplished half-brother Jonathan. His ascendance raises questions around family dynamics known in discussions about hereditary leadership, indicating challenges ahead for the foundation under his leadership.
The real story is that every single person who knows the family knows that Alex was exactly the wrong person to lead the foundation.
In private he is brooding and cerebral and has a propensity for candor and bursts of hot-temperedness.
His slightly tortured persona has invited comparisons with his elder half-brother Jonathan, who sprang from Harvard Law School.
When Soros insiders try to explain the family dynamic, they draw on the standard texts of empire and heredity.
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