content: The Open Society and its Enemies is a beautiful defence of human freedom written in majestic prose by one of the few indisputably great thinkers of the century. The prose style is a sheer delight. Popper writes with vividness and clarity in the service of high ideals. His work is a vital antidote to those many thinkers, especially on the post-Sartrean Left, who destroy forests in order to promote painfully turgid and woolly views which - on the rare occasions when they are understandable at all - turn out to be the bedrock for people who hate freedom. Fortunately, Popper's book is taken very seriously, a testament to the diminishing power of such ideas.