The author of Ruling by Cheating is an “enemy of the people”—in the stigmatizing sense in which the term has been used by many groups, from the Jacobins to the communist leaders such as Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, to the Nazi propagandists and contemporary autocrats. András Sajó is a Hungarian professor at the Central European University (CEU), an institution widely considered a bulwark of open society and liberal democracy that was compelled to move abroad by the Hungarian government. He is also a former vice president of the European Court of Human Rights, which the Hungarian government considers to be an enemy of national identity and sovereignty.