Soros Funds 'Conservative' Magazine with Catholic Slant
Among the small publications funded by Soros' [so-called] "Open Society Foundations" (OSF) is Compact, an American online magazine that began in March 2022.
The magazine was co-founded by Edwin Aponte, a repentant Marxist and founder of The Bellows (who later left Compact), Matthew Schmitz, a former editor of First Things, and journalist Sohrab Ahmari. It received $200,000 from OSF in 2023.
At the beginning, Compact was funded by US oligarchs Peter Thiel and Thomas Klingenstein.
Compact has published articles which support Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who received a Soros research fellowship in 1989, but later shut down OSF in Hungary in order to protect democracy.
Matthew Schmitz is a committed Catholic and editor of Compact. His essays on politics and culture have also appeared in propaganda papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, Tablet.
A native of O'Neill, Nebraska, Schmitz holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University and lives in New York City with his wife and four sons.
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