Six weeks before the 2004 election, The New York Times ran a puff-piece profile of George Soros that, even by Times standards, was jaw-dropping. For the privilege of sharing Dover sole at the great man’s Southampton estate, Katharine Seeyle brought the following news to her readers: George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who has given $18 million to Democratic advocacy groups to defeat President Bush, is preparing to spend millions more because he fears that Senator John Kerry might lose... “America has gone off the rails,” he lamented in the interview over a lunch of Dover sole at his home in...