In my last post, I said I'd post a video of billionaire and philanthropist George Soros. In this video he's interviewed by a partisan host who can't seem to stomach some of what Soros has said in his book. It's one of my concerns - how immune some folk in the States are to criticism (and in my next post I'll elaborate on this). Self-criticism a reflective tool we should all apply to ourselves and our nation every now and then.

I randomly picked up a book the other day. Well not quite randomly, the title intrigued me. It was The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros. I'd never heard of the bloke. It turns out though that he's the 27th richest man in America.

What makes him and his book interesting (to me at least) is that he is a business mogul who has applied his mind, heart and personal fortune into establishing Open Societies. He also happens to be someone who has openly criticised the Bush Administration, the USA and the subsequent War on Terror. His argument is that the War on Terror is a false metaphor and that the States is fast becoming a "closed society" because of it.

I'm used to academics taking this line ...  read more »