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Hudson Institute 

First Think Tank 

to Highlight 

Subprime Crisis 

The leading financial news 

story this summer was the 

sub prime mortgage financial 

crisis, an event that has had 

global financial repercussions. 

Smart investors who paid 

attention to Hudson Institute 

re search were already warned 

of the danger months earlier, 

in mid-Feb ruary, when Hudson 

In st itute’s Center for Housing 

and Financial Markets held 

a half-day seminar on understated 

risk in the subprime 

mortgage market. Hudson In - 

s titute was the first think tank 

to expose the looming crisis— 

part of its continuing tradition 

of thinking ahead of the curve. 

The seminar, hosted by Center 

Director John Weicher, a 

for mer Fed eral Housing Com - 

missioner, Continued on page 2 

MOSCOW SHOW TRIAL 

FOR HUDSON SCHOLAR 

In a chilling echo of the 1930s Moscow purge trials, Andrei Piont kovsky, a 

Visiting Fellow at Hudson Institute, was called back to his native Russia 

and accused in court of violating a new Russian law that has broadened the 

definition of illegal extremist activities. So-called extremist acts now include 

“abasement of national dignity” and “slander of a public official.” Piont - 

kovsky, described by the Washington Post as “one of Russia’s most pungent 

political commentators,” has harshly criticized Russian President Vladimir 

Putin in his column for Russia’s independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper 

and in his books, including Putin’s Soul (Hudson Institute, 2006). 

Piontkovsky told the Post that “This whole case is absurd. It’s very primitive. 

Stalin’s prosecutors were sophisticated intellectuals compared to these 

people.” In a profile of Piontkovsky and other Russia dissidents, the Wall 

Street Jour nal recently wrote, “Civil-rights groups said the pressure on 

Piontkovsky … was by far the highest-profile move to silence a Kremlin 

critic.” Continued on page 22 

Andrei Piontkovsky 

FALL 2007 / HUDSON INSTITUTE 1


First Think Tank 

to Highlight 

Subprime Crisis 

CHAIRMAN’S 

LETTER 

Continued from page 1 

featured a paper (avail able on 

Hud son’s website) by Joseph 

Mas on of Drexel University and 

Joshua Rosner of Graham Fisher 

and Co. The paper presciently 

argued that risky mort gages and 

collateralized debt obligations 

(CDOs) could experience significant 

losses due to stagnation in 

the housing market. It raised 

con cerns that inadequate transparency 

in the rapidly-growing 

private label market—and a credit 

rating in dustry ill-equipped to 

recognize the risks of CDOs— 

might trigger a broader financial 

crisis. “The subprime market is 

new, and it has grown very fast. It 

barely ex isted 20 years ago but 

ac counted for 20% of mortgage 

originations last year. And as it 

grew, it changed,” Weicher wrote 

in a recent op-ed in the Wall 

Street Journal. 

The New York Times covered 

the Rosner and Mason paper on 

the front page of its business 

section in February. The paper 

has also been widely cited in 

dozens of publications, including 

the Washington Post, Wall 

Street Journal, and the Financial 

Times. The specific concerns 

about the credit rating industry 

have subsequently attracted 

attention on Capitol Hill. 

Dear Friend of Hudson Institute: 

I am pleased to report that the last few months have been very 

productive at Hudson Institute. 

Policymakers from Honduras to Lithuania to Japan have called 

on Hudson Institute scholars for timely briefings on today’s global 

challenges. 

We have released major new studies on defense cooperation, radical 

Islam, and U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Turkish relations, as well as the 

second annual edition of our highly acclaimed Index of Global 

Philanthropy, which received media coverage in a variety of news 

outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and C-SPAN. 

And months before anyone else, Hudson research warned of a 

possible crisis in the subprime mortgage market. 

Our press visibility has never been higher, with opinion articles in 

such prestigious venues as the Washington Post and the Wall Street 

Journal. Hudson conferences in New York and Washington have been 

covered by major media outlets around the world. 

As you begin to consider your end-of-year giving, I ask that you 

give serious consideration to contributing to Hudson Institute to 

provide support for the important research we undertake. You can 

use the enclosed envelope to send us your tax-deductible donation. 

Your support will allow us to expand the outreach of our unique, 

future-oriented approach to the critical policy issues of the day. 

With best wishes, 

Allan R. Tessler 

Chairman of Hudson Institute Board of Trustees 

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HUDSON 

MEDIA 

HIGHLIGHTS 

■ FOX NEWS 

Richard Miniter on al Qaeda 

September 7 

■ NTV (Russia) 

Amy Kauffman interviewed on 

Fred Thompson’s campaign 

September 4 

■ CBS News 

Jonathan Paris on U.S.-Saudi 

Arabian relations 

August 1 

■ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer 

Zeyno Baran interviewed about 

Turkish elections 

July 23 

■ CBC TV (Canada) 

Kenneth Weinstein on President 

Bush’s Iraq speech - August 20 

■ CNN 

John Fonte discusses immigration 

August 20 

■ CNN 

Christopher Sands featured on the 

Montebello summit 

August 20 

■ Today Show 

Ronald Dworkin interviewed about 

antidepressants 

July 30 

■ Washington Post Radio 

Irwin Stelzer interviewed on 

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s 

visit to the U.S. 

July 30 

■ CNBC 

Betsy McCaughey on 

healthcare costs 

July 24 

■ Al Jazeera 

Herbert London on the Middle East 

July 23 

■ CNN 

Dennis Avery interviewed on 

global warming 

July 21 

■ BBC TV 

Richard Weitz on Russia’s military 

August 17 

■ EWTN TV 

Nina Shea on Christians in Iraq 

August 3 

■ Fox News Channel 

Anne Bayefsky cited on the 

United Nations 

July 21 


SCHOLAR IN THE SPOTLIGHT 

WILLIAM SCHAMBRA 

Hudson Media Highlights continued 

■ Radio Marti 

Paul Marshall discusses global 

religious freedom 

July 11 

■ NPR 

Husain Haqqani on Pakistan 

July 10 

■ CTV (Canada) 

Andrei Piontkovsky on Russian 

President Vladimir Putin’s visit 

to the U.S. 

July 2 

■ NPR 

Meyrav Wurmser debates 

engagement with Hamas 

June 28 

“What is really very nice about Hudson Institute is that it is trying to 

stir debate and discussion in a sector—the nonprofit sector—which 

is intellectually moribund,” Georgetown University Scholar Pablo 

Eisenberg said at a public gathering August 9. At the center of this 

effort is Hudson Senior Fellow William Schambra, Director of the 

Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. Since the center 

was founded at Hudson Institute in January 2003, Schambra has 

hosted dozens of discussions on hot button issues in the sector such 

as the political activity of 501(c)(3)s, Warren Buffett’s bequest to the 

Gates Foundation, the sector’s costly obsession with measurement 

and evaluation techniques, and philanthropy’s involvement in campaign 

finance reform. He is frequently invited to speak to nonprofit 

gatherings and university groups around the country and to write 

for the sector’s most widely distributed publication, the Chronicle of 

Philanthropy. These activities are often the fodder for discussion in 

several blogs on the nonprofit sector and philanthropy. 

Schambra’s “citizen-centered, town-square view of politics—and 

policymaking,” as described in a December 2006 profile in WORLD 

Magazine, informs his work, “helping to advance a view of effective 

philanthropy as being rooted in local communities.” Prior to joining 

Hudson Institute, he worked for eleven continued on page 22 

■ MSNBC 

Diana Furchtgott-Roth on 

the immigration bill 

June 24 

■ FOX NEWS 

Leon de Winter on Islam 

in Europe 

June 15 

■ BBC 

William Odom discusses the 

Iraq war 

June 15 

■ Fox News Channel 

David Satter on Vladimir Putin 

at the G-8 summit 

June 9 

■ Voice of America 

William Odom on the 

Iraq War 

June 6 


EXCERPTS OF 

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY 

BY HUDSON SCHOLARS 

ZEYNO BARAN’S 

testimony on energy and 

democracy in Central and 

Eastern Europe before the 

House Foreign Affairs 

Committee 

July 25 

As the EU and the U.S. are act ive ly 

working to diversify European gas away 

from Russia (by supporting a pipe line 

project called Nabucco to trans port gas 

from the Caspian region via Turkey, 

Bulgaria, Romania, and Hun gary, ending 

in Austria), Moscow has used its 

economic relations with Hungary (trade 

between Hungary and Russia increased 

by 70 percent over the last year) to try 

to pull Budapest away from its EU and 

NATO allies. As in Uk raine, energy 

played a key role in this effort. 

In 2000, an Irish-registered company 

called Milford Holding acquired a 

significant stake in BorsodChem, 

Hun gary’s primary chemical company 

and owner of a pipeline distribution 

network. It was soon revealed that 

Gaz prom was the real force behind 

Mil ford Holding. Shortly thereafter, a 

series of obscure, recently created com - 

panies began snatching up BorsodChem 

shares. Fearful that Gazprom or other 

Russian actors might be behind these 

firms as well, the Hungarian government 

rallied local companies and banks 

to fight off further intrusion and prevent 

a Russian takeover. 

JAIME DAREMBLUM’S 

testimony on U.S.-South 

American relations before 

the House Committee on 

Foreign Affairs 

June 19 

Data from the Economic Commission 

for Latin America and the Caribbean 

(ECLAC), show that between 2003 

and 2006, over 18 million Latin 

Americans were able to escape from 

the poorest ranks of society. This is a 

tangible testimony to falling unemployment, 

improved income distribution, 

and a strong upswing in the 

number of jobs, namely in some South 

American countries, among them 

Colombia and Peru. 

Growing trade opportunities lie at 

the core of such economic and social 

advances. And trade, precisely, has 

been a chapter in which the U.S. has 

kept constantly engaged since 1983 

through various free trade programs 

such as the Caribbean Basin Initiative 

(CBI), culminating in actual free trade 

agreements, namely with Chile, D- 

Cafta, plus those with Colombia, Peru, 

and Panama. It is crucial that the latter 

three agreements, as it was with Chile 

and D-Cafta, receive congressional 

approval for the benefit of millions 

more Latin Americans and of course 

American producers and consumers. 

This is a promise the U.S. cannot 

afford to abandon or circumvent, particularly 

in Colombia, without incurring 

costly negative consequences. As 

we all know, until only a few years 

ago, a democratic Colombia was on 

the verge of being lost amidst the 

chaos and extreme violence generated 

by drugs and drug-related terrorism. 

Thanks to the resilience of the 

Colombian people and the sustained 

backing of the U.S. through Plan 

Colombia, as well as the able leadership 

of President Álvaro Uribe, the 

country has begun to turn the tide in 

this decades-long battle. 

DIANA FURCHTGOTT- 

ROTH’S testimony on 

worker competitiveness 

before the House Ways 

and Means Committee 

June 14 

In 2007, the United States leads the 

industrialized world in job creation, 

and our unemployment rate is among 

the lowest in the industrialized world. 

In contrast, unemployment rates in 

most other countries are far higher. In 

April 2007, the latest month for which 

comparable data are available, Ameri - 

cans had an unemployment rate of 4.5 

percent, while unemployment rates in 

the Eurozone were 7.1 per cent; in 

France, 8.6 percent; in Germany, 6.7 

percent; in Spain, 8.2 percent; and in 

Canada, 6.1 percent. Only Japan had a 


lower rate than the United States, and 

its economy is characterized by a 

slower rate of GDP growth. 

In May 2007, the payroll survey 

recorded an increase of 157,000 jobs. 

Compared to August 2003, nonfarm 

payroll employment has increased by 

over 8.0 million jobs, 45 months of 

consecutive gains, where professional 

and business services added 1.9 million, 

education and health services 

added 1.7 million, leisure and hospitality 

added 1.3 million, trade, transportation, 

and utilities added 1.2 million, 

construction added 910,000, government 

added 653,000, and financial 

activities added 436,000. The household 

survey showed a gain of 157,000 

employed workers in May 2007 as 

well, and a gain of over 8.4 million 

employed workers since August 2003. 

DAVID SATTER’S 

testimony on Russia 

before the House 

Foreign Affairs 

Committee 

May 17 

One of the most important questions 

in the world today concerns the intentions 

of Russia. One can only wonder 

what is motivating Russia to create so 

many artificial problems in a short 

period of time. 

If Russia were motivated by logical 

concerns, it would be dedicated to balancing 

growing Chinese power, guarding 

against Islamic terrorism, and preventing 

the emergence of nuclear powers 

on its borders. Instead, however, 

Russia appears fixated on dominating 

the countries that emerged from the 

former Soviet Union and appears willing 

to sacrifice its vital interests for the 

empty satisfaction of appearing to give 

orders to countries it believes it has a 

right to dominate. 

The leaders of a country are usually 

dedicated to defending that country’s 

vital interests. Developments in Russia, 

however, show that there is a real 

divergence between the interests of the 

country and the interests of the small 

group of people who run it. 

JOHN FONTE’S 

testimony on immigrant 

assimilation before the 

House Judiciary 

Committee 

May 16 

What do we mean by patriotic assimilation? 

First of all, patriotic assimilation 

does not mean giving up all ethnic 

traditions, customs, cuisine, and birth 

languages. It has nothing to do with the 

food one eats, the religion one practices, 

the affection that one feels for the 

land of one’s birth, and the second languages 

that one speaks. Multiethnicity 

and ethnic subcultures have enriched 

America and have always been part of 

our past since colonial days. 

Historically, the immigration saga 

has involved some “give and take” 

between immigrants and the nativeborn. 

That is to say, immigrants have 

helped shape America even as this 

nation has Americanized them. On the 

other hand, this “two way street” is 

not a fifty-fifty arrangement. Thus, on 

the issue of “who accommodates to 

whom,” obviously, most of the accommodating 

should come from the newcomers, 

not from the hosts. 

So what is patriotic assimilation? 

Well, one could say that patriotic 

assimilation occurs when a newcomer 

essentially adopts American civic values, 

the American heritage, and the 

story of America (what academics call 

the “narrative”) as his or her own. 

NINA SHEA’S 

testimony before the 

House of Represent a tives’ 

Task Force on Religious 

Freedom 

May 23 

The Egyptian government maintains 

tight control over all Muslim religious 

ins titutions, including mosques and religious 

endowments, which are encouraged 

to promote an officially sanctioned 

interpretation of Islam. All mosques 

must be licensed by the government, 

and sermons are monitored by the government, 

reportedly as a necessary precaution 

against religious extremism and 

terrorism. Yet human rights organizations 

inside the country are seriously 

con cerned that Islamic extremism is in 

fact advancing in Egypt, making questionable 

the prospects for democratic 

reform, religious tolerance, and the 

rights of women and girls and members 

of religious minorities. Despite the state 

controls, some believe that the government 

is not acting to its fullest ability to 

counteract religious militancy, especially 

in the areas of public education and the 

media, where extremist influence is 

grow ing. In addition to surveillance and 

harassment by the state security services, 

Coptic Orthodox and members of 

other religious minorities also face societal 

in tolerance and violence by Muslim 

ex tremists. Despite draconian efforts on 

the part of the Egyptian government to 

fight extremism, these same Egyptian 

security entities are often lax in or indifferent 

to protecting the lives and property 

of minority groups from extremist 

violence, as well as in prosecuting those 

responsible for the violent actions. 


HUDSON’S INFLUENCE IN ACADEMIA 

Hudson scholars influence the world of 

ideas by publishing articles and monographs 

and briefing policymakers. 

However, a select group of Hudson fellows 

teach at America’s top universities, 

where they are able to help shape the 

minds of the next generation of thinkers 

while obtaining a broader perspective 

on critical issues of the day. 

Senior Fellow William Odom, for 

instance, teaches American grand strategy 

in the political science department 

at Yale University. Senior Fellow Amy 

Kass teaches the humanities at the University 

of Chicago. Both Odom and 

Kass have won awards as outstanding 

undergraduate teachers. 

Husain Haqqani, co-chair of Hudson’s 

Islam and Democracy Project, 

teaches international relations at Boston 

University, while Distinguished Fellow 

Robert Bork and Senior Fellow Anne 

Bayefsky teach law at Ave Maria Law 

School and Touro College, respectively. 

In addition to these current faculty 

members, Hudson scholars have taught 

at dozens of universities. Hudson President 

Herbert London, Professor of the 

Humanities at New York University, 

was for two decades the driving force 

behind and Dean of NYU’s Gallatin 

School, which he created in 1972. 

Other Hudsonians who have served 

on university faculties include Hillel 

Frad kin (Yale, Columbia, and Univer - 

sity of Chicago), Paul Marshall 

(University of Toronto and the Free 

University of Amsterdam), Richard 

Weitz (Harvard), Kenneth Weinstein 

(Georgetown and Claremont 

McKenna), Charles Fairbanks (Yale 

and Johns Hopkins-SAIS), John 

Weicher (Ohio State University), 

Irwin Stelzer (Cornell, Connecticut, 

NYU, Oxford, MIT, and Columbia), 

Michael Horowitz (Georgetown 

Law), Max Singer (Bar Ilan Univer - 

sity), Laurent Murawiec (Ecole des 

Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), 

and Christopher Sands (Carleton 

University). 

Finally, beyond the classroom, Hudson 

scholars reach college audiences 

through our books, research monographs, 

and articles. Herman Kahn’s 

texts such as The Emerging Japanese 

Superstate, Thinking the Unthinkable, 

and The Year 2000 have been standard 

classroom fare for years. Hudson Institute 

publications are used by professors 

in syllabi around the world, including 

this year at, among other campuses, 

Georgetown, Harvard, Indiana, 

Michigan, and Yale. 


HUDSON’S 

INTERN 

PROGRAM 

Hudson Institute interns provide critical assistance to the Institute. This year, 

over 150 students from an array of universities in the United States and 

abroad —ranging from Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, 

George town, George Washington University, to the Institut d’Etudes Politiques 

de Paris—provided research and administrative support to Hudson Institute 

scholars and staff. 

Through their internships, these students gain valuable experience and in - 

sight into public policy. “My internship has given me a much better understanding 

of how the world of communications works,” noted Sibylle Getzin, 

a German trainee and graduate of Universität Greifswald, who worked with 

Grace Terzian, Hudson’s Vice President for Communications, and Rachel 

DiCarlo Currie, Hudson’s Managing Editor. 

Hudson’s internship program is run by Senior Fellow Richard Weitz, 

Hud son’s Director of Program Man age ment. Weitz, who taught social studies 

at Harvard, enjoys the interaction with interns. He observes that “Our best 

interns here at Hudson have been as good as my best students at Harvard.” 

Many undergraduates have proceeded to pursue graduate programs related 

to their research agenda at Hudson. 

Like Weitz, other Hudson scholars enjoy the opportunity to mentor our 

interns. “Hudson’s interns will often become policymakers themselves, so it is 

critical that we use our experience and knowledge to help them better understand 

the changing global environment,” noted Hudson Senior Fellow Hillel 

Fradkin. 

Hudson staff members make an effort to assist former interns to obtain 

more permanent entry into the policy world. Recent interns have been hired 

by the U.S. government, assumed re search positions at various Wash ington 

think tanks such as the Brook ings Institution, and worked on Capi tol Hill. 

Several are working for various presidential and other political campaigns— 

on both the Demo cratic and Republican side of the aisle. One former intern 

recently joined the Jap an ese Foreign Service, while another has taken a post 

with the French Foreign Ministry. 

Summer 2007 interns sporting the Hudson ball cap. 


Tony Snow, Miles Prentice, and Herbert London 

Hudson 

EVENTS 

SEPTEMBER 

REFORMING AND REFINING EXPORT 

CONTROLS 

Transcripts, summaries, 

and photographs of 


events can be found 

at www.hudson.org 

In a time of globalization of the defense industry, is the U.S. 

system of export controls preventing the export of critical 

technologies while encouraging the development of the most 

ad vanced technologies and their incorporation into U.S. 

military hardware and software? In a Hudson conference 

this past December, a group of academics, journalists, and 

government and military officials discussed the tradeoff 

between safeguarding new weapons and technol ogies from 

falling into potential enemies’ hands while keeping de fense 

trade open enough to facilitate industrial collaboration, 

enhance operational coordination, reap the benefits of mass 

production, and access the best talents and products worldwide. 

Their recommendations were compiled in the just-published 

report Export Controls and Technology Transfers: 

Turning Obstacles into Opportunities. A follow-up event was 

held in September to highlight its publication. 

Hudson Institute CEO Kenneth Weinstein introduced 

the event. Maria Farkas, former Hudson research fellow 

and editor of the report, outlined the report’s major findings. 

Special guests Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. and Jeffrey P. Bialos 

commented on the report and the current state of affairs in 

the export-control arena. 

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF 

A DEMOCRATIC INDIA 

As the world’s largest democracy, does India bear a special 

responsibility for the promotion of democracy in Asia? 


Amy Kauffman, Aftab Seth, and Teresita Schaffer 

Tony Snow 

Currently, only 16 countries (out of 39) in the Asia-Pacific 

region are considered “free” by Freedom House, with India 

being the largest. Now that India is shifting its foreign policy 

toward closer alliances with the United States and 

Japan, and away from its traditional Cold War alliance 

with Russia, will this new foreign policy influence the 

dynamics for democracy promotion in Asia? The Pew 

Briefing Series hosted a discussion with Ambassador 

Aftab Seth, former Indian Ambassador to Japan,Vietnam, 

and Greece. Ambassador Seth, currently director of Keio 

University’s Global Security Program in Tokyo, was a leading 

figure in the Indian diplomatic corps. Ambassador Seth 

was joined by Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, Director for 

South Asia at the Center for Strategic and International 

Studies. Amy Kauffman, Director of the Hudson Pew 

Briefing Series, moderated. 

AUGUST 

A POLICY ADDRESS ON IRAQ BY 

WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY 

TONY SNOW 

Tony Snow, then White House Press Secretary, recently 

addressed Hudson Institute on the Iraq war at the Union 

League Club in New York. In a speech focused on new 

developments, Snow told the audience of policymakers, 

journalists, and scholars that there has been “undeniable 

progress in Iraq.” 

Snow made special reference to the improved security 

situation in Anbar province as a sign that the new 

Ameri can strategy of working with Sunni leaders against 

al Qaeda was working. Lastly, Snow warned of potentially 

widespread and catastrophic results of a withdrawal from 

Iraq. In his introduction, Hudson President Herbert 

London called Snow “the most effective press secretary 

this country has ever had.” 

FoxNews.com and CNN.com carried a live broadcast 

of the speech, and NBC, the Washington Post, the New 

York Times, National Review, Reuters, the Associated 

Press, and other news outlets gave later coverage. 

SHOULD NONPROFIT 

ORGANIZATIONS PLAY AN 

ACTIVE ROLE IN ELECTION 

CAMPAIGNS? 

Nonprofit sector leaders Robert Egger, founder and 

president of D.C. Central Kitchen, and Pablo Eisenberg, 

a Georgetown University scholar, debated this question 

before an audience of nearly two hundred people hosted 

by Hudson’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic 

Renewal. The two men’s presentations drew from dueling 

opinion pieces they had written for the Chronicle of Phil - 

anthropy. Egger argued that current law prevents nonprofits 

from working for change through the political system 

by, for example, endorsing candidates, and that this must 

be changed. Eisenberg strongly disagreed, perceiving a failure 

of the nonprofit sector to hold politicians and others 

accountable for persistent social problems. 

Eisenberg attributes this to a lack of leadership, not to 

regulation; the current law allows many forms of activism 

and yet nonprofits remain relatively inactive, politically. 

Ian Wilhelm, the discussion’s moderator and senior writer 

for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, recognized in the 

debate the larger question about the purpose of the nonprofit 

sector in a democracy. 


Ronald Dworkin, Norman Doidge, and John O’Sullivan 

Jaime Daremblum 

THE MONTEBELLO SUMMIT AND 

THE FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICA 

The leaders of the three North American countries met 

August 20-21 in Montebello, Quebec, for the third in a 

series of annual summits that have been held to oversee a 

process of trilateral negotiations on economic regulation and 

security procedures called the Security and Prosperity 

Partnership of North America, or SPP. Participants of the 

conference reviewed the progress of the SPP negotiations, 

presented the status of relations among the three NAFTA 

partners, and discussed Negotiating North America, a paper 

by conference chairman and Hudson Senior Fellow 

Christopher Sands and Greg Anderson of University of 

Alberta. Discussants included Sands and Anderson; Jaime 

Daremblum, Director of Hudson’s Center for Latin 

American Studies; John Fonte, Director of Hudson’s Center 

for American Common Culture; Hudson Senior Fellow 

John O’Sullivan; Hudson CEO Kenneth Weinstein; former 

Congressman James R. Jones; Barbara Kotschwar 

from the Peterson Institute; Robert Pastor of American 

University; Daniel Schwanen of the Center for 

International Governance and Innovation; and Sidney 

Weintraub from the Center for Strategic and International 

Studies. C-SPAN filmed this event for a live broadcast. 

THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS 

OF SECURING CYBERSPACE 

Seymour Goodman, Professor of International Affairs and 

Computing at Georgia Tech, led this discussion on the extent 

of the internationalization of cyberspace, specific international 

problems, and weaknesses that add to cyberspace insecurity, 

especially relating to Africa, and discussed some forms 

of international cooperation that might help alleviate these 

problems. Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Director of Hudson’s 

Center for Telecom munications, Information, and National 

Security Policy, gave the introduction. C-SPAN carried a live 

broadcast of this event. 

FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 

IN BANGLADESH 

Hudson Institute hosted a discussion in New York with 

journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury on human 

rights and radical Islam in Bangladesh. Hudson President 

Herbert London served as moderator. 

JULY 

CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMIC 

EXTREMISM IN THE PALESTINIAN 

STATE 

Growing Islamist extremism endangers a 2,000-year-old 

Palestinian Christian community; and heightened violence, 

the political rise of Hamas, and fears of the imposition of 

Islamic sharia law have thrown into question the survival of 

the Palestinian Christians, who now make up only three 

percent of the Palestinian population. A series of attacks 

against Christian targets has led Christians in the Gaza Strip 

to appeal for international assistance. This situation and 

future prospects of this threatened community were discussed 

by Justus Weiner, a distinguished Scholar in 

Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Nina 

Shea, Director of Hudson’s Center for Religious Freedom, 

gave the introduction. 


Michael Novak 

David Satter 

Irwin Stelzer 

WORLD TRENDS IN RELIGIOUS 

FREEDOM 

At this event, Hudson’s Center for Religious Freedom 

released the initial findings of its forthcoming survey, 

Religious Freedom in the World 2007. The book describes 

and analyzes 100 countries, especially those where religious 

freedom is most violated. It ranks them comparatively; 

includes scores and charts of freedom; details world trends, 

correlating religious freedom with measures of economic 

freedom, social well being, civil liberties, and political rights; 

and features essays by experts explaining relevant issues. 

Paul Marshall, a Senior Fellow with Hudson’s Center for 

Religious Freedom, presented the survey results. Discussion 

and additional commentary were provided by Brian Grim, 

Senior Research Fellow in Religion and World Affairs at the 

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life; Theodore Malloch, 

Founder and Chairman, Spiritual Enterprise Institute; 

Zainab Al-Suwaij, Co-founder and Executive Director of 

the American Islamic Congress (AIC); and Richard Land, 

President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & 

Religious Liberty Commission. This panel was chaired by 

Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute. 

JUNE 

WE ARE SPENDING $2 BILLION 

A DAY 

Hudson Institute hosted this conference on the U.S. trade 

deficit in New York City to discuss issues related to the 

trade deficit, such as oil imports and oil money. Panelists 

included author and consultant Erin Anderson, CNN host 

Lou Dobbs, Senior Fellow at the U.S. Business and 

Industry Council William Hawkins, Wall Street Journal 

writer Stephen Moore, Hudson Adjunct Fellow Ernest 

Preeg, and former CIA Director James Woolsey. Hudson 

President Herbert London and former Secretary of 

Education and radio talk show host William Bennett 

moderated. 

U.S.–RUSSIAN RELATIONS: THE 

KENNEBUNKPORT AGENDA 

The meeting between President George W. Bush and 

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kennebunkport came at 

a critical moment in U.S.-Russian relations. After a promising 

start at the beginning of the Bush administration, relations 

between the two countries are now at a post-Soviet 

low. A group of Hudson experts convened to discuss the 

Kennebunkport summit and the future of relations between 

Russia and the United States. Discussants included Zeyno 

Baran, Director of Hudson’s Center for Eurasian Policy, 

Andrei Piontkovsky, Hudson Visiting Fellow and former 

director of the Moscow Center for Strategic Research, and 

Senior Fellow David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent. 

Senior Fellow Richard Weitz moderated. 

LEFTISM AND POPULISM IN 

TODAY’S LATIN AMERICA: IS 

CHAVISMO CONTAGIOUS? 

The Center for Latin American Studies, directed by Senior 

Fellow Jaime Daremblum, in partnership with the Insti - 

tute for Foreign Policy Analysis, held the inaugural lecture 

of a new series on politics and society in Latin America 

featuring Javier Corrales, an associate professor of govern- 


Edward Lazear, Alberto Alesina, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth 

Richard Weitz, Carol Adelman, Ira Strauss, 

Shanker Singham, and Christopher Sands 

ment at Amherst University. Corrales discussed how the 

policies of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez impact the 

region’s cultures, politics, economies, and institutions. 

ENTREPRENEURS IN THE UNITED 

STATES AND EUROPE: WHO HAS 

IT BETTER? 

The performance of labor markets in Europe and in the 

United States contrasts in many aspects. Low-skilled jobs 

have been transferred to machines in Europe much more 

than in the United States, while technological progress in 

the high-tech sector is faster in America than in Europe. 

At this event, Alberto Alesina, a professor at Harvard 

University, presented a new study, “Technology and Labor 

Regulations,” to describe how the different structure of 

labor regulations in Europe and the United States leads to 

different challenges for entrepreneurs. The Honorable 

Edward Lazear, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 

delivered a luncheon address on the economy. Diana 

Furchtgott-Roth, Director of Hudson’s Center for 

Employment Policy, moderated. 

DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY 

President George Bush spoke at this event, hosted by José 

María Aznar, former Spanish Prime Minister, Vaclav 

Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia, and Natan 

Sharansky, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister. The 

event convened in Prague, Czech Republic, and was sponsored 

in part by Hudson Institute. As part of the conference, 

Hudson President Herbert London participated in a 

panel entitled “Has the Democratization Process Reached 

an Impasse?” Senior Fellow Anne Bayefsky participated in 

a panel on “The Role of Democratic States, International 

Institutions, and Media in the Global Security 

Environment.” 

THE HEILIGENDAMM G-8 SUMMIT: 

THE GROWTH AND RESPONSIBILITY 

AGENDA, COMBATING POVERTY 

On the eve of the 33rd summit of the G-8 at 

Heiligendamm, a panel of experts convened by Hudson’s 

Center for European Studies previewed key aspects of the 

G-8 summit, including the protest movement, a renewed 

focus on finding a lasting solution to African poverty, and 

the role that G-8 nations such as Canada might play in taking 

the lead on global warming in light of President Bush’s 

call for a common goal on curbing greenhouse emissions. 

Panelists included Carol Adelman, Director of Hudson’s 

Center for Global Prosperity, Senior Fellow Christopher 

Sands, Shanker Singham, a noted international lawyer 

and partner with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLC, and Ira 

Strauss, U.S. Coordinator of the Committee on Eastern 

Europe and Russia in NATO. The panel was moderated by 

Senior Fellow Richard Weitz. 

MAY 

VIOLENCE IN LEBANON AND GAZA: 

A PRELUDE TO WAR IN THE 

MIDDLE EAST 

The recent eruption of violence in Lebanon and Gaza, 

including the conflict in Northern Lebanon and the 

renewed struggle between Hamas and Fatah, has raised 


HUDSON INSTITUTE’S 

NEW YORK 

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Lee Smith and Hillel Fradkin 

Hosted by 

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HERBERT LONDON 

growing concerns in Washington. To examine and discuss 

the situation, Hudson’s Center for Middle East Policy 

hosted a panel of experts, including Meyrav Wurmser, 

Director of Hudson’s Center for Middle East Policy, 

David Schenker, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute 

for Near East Policy, Hudson Senior Fellow Hillel Fradkin, 

Director of Hudson’s Center for Islam, Democracy, and the 

Future of the Muslim World, and Lee Smith, Hudson 

Visiting Fellow. 

THE ROLE OF THE CORPORATION IN 

AMERICA: HOW ARE THE RULES OF 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND 

ANTITRUST EVOLVING? 

Antitrust authorities and a special commission established 

by Congress are in the process of examining the antitrust 

laws in order to determine whether any changes in these 

statutes—and in their application—are needed. At the same 

time, the rules of corporate governance are once again 

being discussed in Congress and in the investment community, 

with Sarbanes-Oxley, executive compensation, the 

relation of shareholders to directors and managers, and a 

host of related issues among those being considered. Irwin 

Stelzer, Director of Hudson’s Center for Economic Policy 

Studies, presented his new monograph, Coping with 

Market Power in the Modern Era, a discussion of the role 

of the corporation in America and the relationship of our 

antitrust laws to our attitudes toward the corporation. 

Judge Robert Bork, Hudson Institute Distinguished 

Fellow, Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Professor of Law at 

Catholic University, and John H. Shenefield, Partner, 

Morgan Lewis, critiqued the paper. 

FALL 2007 SCHEDULE 

BILL O’REILLY, September 25 

JOHN MCCAIN, September 27 

LEONARD LAUDER, October 24 

SHOAIB CHOUDHURY, October 30 

CARL BERNSTEIN, October 31 

MICHAEL LEDEEN, November 7 

ALAN DERSHOWITZ, November 9 

MORT ZUCKERMAN, November 12 

CARL ICAHN, November 20 

SHARON HOM, December 4 

ZUHDI JASSER, December 11 

Other invited speakers include 

NICOLAS SARKOZY, NEWT GINGRICH, 

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The Index of Global Philanthropy 

The core product of Hudson’s Center 

for Global Prosperity, under the direction 

of Senior Fellow Carol Adelman, 

is the annual Index of Global Philan - 

thropy, which details the sources and 

magnitude of private giving to the 

developing world. The Index reframes 

the discussion about the roles of the 

public and private sectors in foreign 

aid by showing that the full scale of a 

country’s generosity includes assistance 

from the private sector. The 

Index demonstrates that the most 

effective philanthropic bridge between 

industrialized countries and developing 

nations is built on private philanthropy, 

volunteerism, and public-private 

partnerships, not exclusively on 

foreign aid. 

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all donor nations in absolute amounts 

and places it in the top third as a percentage 

of gross national income (GNI). 

The new Index reveals that U.S. private 

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time, goods, and expertise to the developing 

world, was at least $95 billion. 

That is three and a half times the 

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Commentary 

half the borrowers in the program do 

become current within a year. If the 

lenders and the regulators follow 

through, they can ease the problem 

substantially. 

August 28, Globe and Mail (Canada) 

Hudson scholars publish op-eds and 

opinion pieces in top publications. 

For full-length copies of each of the 

following excerpts, as well as 

archives of each scholar’s body of 

work, please visit individual scholars’ 

homepages at www.hudson.org. 

September 5, WashingtonPost.com 

HERBERT LONDON 

“IN JAPAN, LEADERSHIP AT 

A CROSSROADS” 

The recent upper-house elections in 

Japan served as a wakeup call for 

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. His party, 

the ruling Liberal Democratic Party 

(LDP), lost its upper-house majority for 

the first time since its establishment in 

1955, making Abe vulnerable to political 

opponents who may seek to block 

important legislation and pressure him 

to call early lower-house elections. 

Abe rode to power almost a year 

ago—in September 2006, propelled by 

his pledge to continue the reformist 

policies of popular former Prime 

Minister Junichiro Koizumi. But it is 

one thing to pledge and another to perform. 

In 2005, Koizumi’s then-stagnant 

poll numbers shot up by taking on the 

anti-reform barons in his own party 

opposed to the privatization of the 

postal system. Privatizing the postal 

system in Japan was a particularly bold 

move because Japan Post not only 

delivers mail, but also serves as the 

nation’s main savings and insurance 

institution, with $3 trillion in assets. In 

contrast to Koizumi, Abe reinstated 

several of the so-called “postal 

rebels”—those LDP opponents of 

postal privatization whom Koizumi 

purged from the party in 2005—in 

return for a pledge of future obedience. 

August 29, Wall Street Journal 

JOHN WEICHER 

“DESPERATE HOUSE LOANS?” 

As the subprime problem has worsened, 

the fi nancial regulators have 

been encouraging forbearance. Their 

joint statement in April asked lenders 

“to work constructively” with homeowners 

who cannot make their mortgage 

payments, and to “consider prudent 

workout arrangements that 

increase the potential for financially 

stressed residential borrowers to keep 

their homes.” 

The regulators are right. The evidence 

suggests that forbearance works. 

The Federal Housing Administration, 

which insures mortgages to many borrowers 

with less-than-perfect credit, 

began a forbearance program in 1999. 

Lenders try to work out a modified 

repayment plan if there seems to be a 

realistic chance that the borrower can 

catch up. Often there is a realistic 

chance. In the FHA’s experience, about 

JOHN O’SULLIVAN 

“A WORD OF ADVICE FOR 

BRITAIN’S TORIES” 

On Europe, for instance, understand 

that Britain’s economic and political 

future lies more with Asia and North 

America (in particular with the socalled 

anglosphere) than with the 

European Union. Isn’t this a novel idea 

requiring long-term intellectual investment? 

Certainly, but it is one with better 

prospects of ultimate electoral and 

practical success than the necrophiliac 

policy of merging gradually into some 

new European semi-state entity. And 

almost any response would be better 

than the current Tory attitude of primly 

averting one’s gaze, like a maiden 

lady frightened by something nasty in 

the woodshed, whenever these topics 

intrude on polite political conversation. 

August 27, Washington Post 

NINA SHEA 

“IRAQ’S ENDANGERED 

MINORITIES” 

Lebanese Maronite scholar Habib 

Malik has written that the Middle East’s 

Christians and other minorities have 

historically served as moderating influences. 

Their very presence highlights 

pluralism, and they are a bridge to the 

West and its values of individual rights. 

These communities sponsor schools 


with modern curriculums benefiting 

all; a prime example was Baghdad’s 

Jesuit College, whose past students 

include three Muslim presi den tial candidates 

in Iraq’s last election. 

It is in America’s national and moral 

interests to help Iraq’s Christians and 

other non-Muslims. The most vulnerable 

must be given asylum. We must also help 

those determined to stay. It is not 

favoritism to acknowledge that they face 

specific threats that require specific policy 

remedies apart from the military 

surge—such as aid and protection to 

resettle in their traditional Nineveh 

homelands. 

August 27, National Review 

ROBERT BORK 

“SENATE TO GO GONZO?” 

[T]he problem created by Gonzales’s 

resignation is likely to spread well 

beyond the DOJ and hamstring the 

remainder of George Bush’s administration. 

The president must soon nominate 

a successor to Gonzales, and 

Senate Democrats are surely con temp 

lating making the confirmation of 

that person contingent upon the 

appointment of a special prosecutor. 

The appointee will inevitably be 

charged, among other things, with 

investigating the firing of eight U. S. 

attorneys, possible perjury by Gonzales 

and others who testified before the Senate 

Judiciary Com mittee, and whatever 

additional matters Senate Democrats’ 

fertile imaginations can pack into the 

special prosecutor’s charter. Grand 

juries will be convened, subpoenas 

issued, witnesses badgered, documents 

demanded from the White House, and 

so on, through the full repertoire of 

special prosecutors’ antics. 

August 9, Gulf News 

HUSAIN HAQQANI 

“POVERTY FUELS EXTREMISM” 

Pakistan’s growth is not creating jobs 

and is not helping alleviate poverty at a 

rapid pace. [A former Pakistani finance 

minister] estimated that 65 million 

Pakistanis live in absolute poverty 

while another 65 million live in poverty. 

Only 30 million Pakistanis are wellto-do. 

The well-to-do often ignore the 

rage and anger brewing among the 

poor, who will be particularly vulnerable 

to extremist ideologies if political 

inclusion does not replace the current 

system of oligarchic rule. Nothing 

short of a complete overhaul of the 

state structure under elected democratic 

leadership, based on rule of law and 

well-defined roles for all institutions, 

will bring Pakistan from the brink 

where it currently finds itself. 

August 6, Weekly Standard 

IRWIN STELZER 

“MR. BROWN GOES TO 

WASHINGTON” 

Here is the state of play on the eve of 

[British Prime Minister Gordon 

Brown’s] visit. Brown’s international 

development secretary, Douglas 

Alexander, the prime minister’s closest 

associate with the exception of 

[Member of Parliament Ed Balls], 

travels to America to tell the Council 

on Foreign Relations that Britain plans 

to “form new alliances,” and that its 

foreign policy will emphasize multilateralism 

and “soft power,” both of 

which America is supposed to oppose. 

The press was briefed by Alexander’s 

staff in advance of the speech to make 

certain that reporters would notice 

how the language was chosen to distinguish 

Britain’s approach to foreign 

affairs from America’s. Alexander also 

warns that Britain will no longer 

measure nations’ might by “what they 

could destroy,” which will come as a 

surprise to those who remember that it 

was the destructive power of the 

American military that helped prevent 

Alexander from growing up a 

German-speaker. 

July 27, New York Sun 

DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH 

“KEEP OUR MONEY HERE” 

In addition to overturning decades of 

tax law, raising taxes on financial 

partnerships would have negative 

unintended consequences. According 

to the National Venture Capital 

Association Yearbook, more than 60 

percent of investors are not multimillionaires 

but pension funds, foundations, 

and endowments. Mrs. Clinton’s 

desired tax changes would mean less 

efficient capital markets, and therefore 

smaller pensions for millions of retired 

Americans and fewer foundation 

grants for charity and research. 

Partnerships are conducive to innovation 

and entrepreneurship because 

they enable those with capital and 

management experience to team with 

innovators and entrepreneurs. Raising 

taxes would curtail entrepreneurs’ 

ability to plan for the long term. 



HAROLD FURCHTGOTT-ROTH 

“THE DANGERS OF THE 

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE” 

Putting the government in a position of 

deciding the content that must be 

broadcast and, implicitly, which content 

must not, is an untenable situation 

in a free society. Other countries have 

state-owned or controlled broadcast 

stations—not America. [Federal Com - 

munications Commission Chair man 

Dennis Patrick] and his FCC colleagues 

did not abolish the Fairness Doctrine 

to help Rush Limbaugh and other conservative 

talk radio hosts who were not 

yet on the air. No one could have predicted 

in 1987 how much America 

wanted conservative talk radio. Mr. 

Patrick and his colleagues simply saw 

the obvious: an unconstitutional policy 

that was hamstringing the day-to-day 

operations of commercial broadcasters. 

July 19, Financial Times 

WILLIAM ODOM (CO-AUTHORED 

WITH LAWRENCE KORB) 

“TRAINING LOCAL FORCES IS 

NO WAY TO SECURE IRAQ” 

In July 2005 the total number of 

attacks on coalition forces, Iraqi civilians 

and Iraqi security forces was about 

2,500. Two years later, the number of 

attacks had more than doubled. During 

that same period, the number of Iraqi 

army and police trained and equipped 

had grown from about 150,000 to 

more than 350,000. Arming the Shiadominated 

security forces makes about 

as much sense as arming the Bosnian 

Serbs to provide security after the 

NATO withdrawal. The reason for this 

spike in violence is obvious. It is a 

result of a sectarian struggle for power 

overlying several lesser civil conflicts, 

and the security problems are part of 

this struggle. Training or equipping 

these forces is not a solution. 


JAIME DAREMBLUM 

“CARACASTAN” 

The expansion of Iran’s presence in 

Latin America and the Caribbean signifies 

a break with its diplomatic isolation, 

caused by its terrorist activities 

abroad, by its pursuit of nuclear 

weapons, and by Mr. Ahmadinejad’s 

anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying 

antics. Helped by Mr. Chavez, who 

realizes how his relationship with Iran 

complicates the stability of the hemisphere, 

Iran intends to find more allies 

in America’s Latin and Caribbean 

neighbors. 


CAROL ADELMAN 

“UPDATING FOREIGN AID” 

The conventional assumption that foreign 

aid counts only when it comes 

from governments is caught in the time 

warp of Marshall Plan-era thinking 

when both private investments and 

charity abroad were minimal. 

Over the past two decades, new 

means of delivery have sprung up to 

help the needy who are abroad. Venture 

philanthropy like the Britain-based Riders 

for Health started a self-sustaining 

business through private donations and 

volunteers. The successful venture provides 

1,200 vehicles in five African 

countries, transporting 900 nurses to 

remote areas and patients to hospitals. 

Government foreign aid is being supplemented 

and augmented by private 

insurers providing affordable insurance 

to the very poor. 

July 2, Weekly Standard 

PAUL MARSHALL 

“ENDANGERED SALMAN” 

[Egyptian] State Security has now also 

leveled charges against Quranist 

founder Ahmed Subhy Mansour, who 

formerly taught Islamic history at 

Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the major 

center of Sunni learning. He was fired 

because of his views and imprisoned in 

1987. Subsequently he found asylum 

in the United States and lives in 

Virginia. Also charged is Dr. Othman 

Mohamed Ali, who lives in Canada. 

These arrests are part of the 

Egyptian government’s double game in 

which it imprisons members of the 

Muslim Brotherhood when the latter 

appear to become too powerful, while 

simultaneously trying to appear Islam - 

ic itself and blunt the Brother hood’s 

appeal by cracking down on religious 

reformers, who are very often also 

democracy activists. 

June 29, Wall Street Journal 

DAVID SATTER 

“THE SUMMIT IN 

KENNEBUNKPORT” 

There will undoubtedly be an attempt 

in Kennebunkport to put a good face 

on U.S.-Russian relations. But this 

should not come at the expense of self- 


censorship on the U.S. side which 

changes nothing in Russian behavior 

and denies us the possibility to influence 

the underlying tendency. In fact, 

the best President Bush can do is speak 

frankly to Putin about the obstructive 

and self-defeating character of his policies. 

This may not improve the atmosphere, 

but the U.S. cannot allow itself 

to be drawn into a world of self-serving 

Russian illusions. By telling Putin 

things he needs to hear, Bush may provoke 

a boorish response. But he will be 

behaving like a true friend. 

June 25, Chronicle of Philanthropy 

clearly different from the internment of 

Japanese American citizens. 

June 20, WashingtonPost.com 

RICHARD WEITZ 

“A BUSH-PUTIN DISCUSSION 

ON THE RADAR” 

Despite its concerns, the Bush administration 

should continue to engage the 

Russians on a possible joint use of the 

Gabala radar while keeping open the 

possibility of deploying Ballistic Missile 

Defense (BMD) systems in Poland and 

the Czech Republic. The fact that the 

radar is technically inadequate is less 

important than the potential for Russian-American 

dialogue over the base to 

limit the negative spill-over from the 

BMD dispute and, ideally, expand to 

address other important security issues. 

For example, the dialogue could 

generate creative thinking about how 

to address missile defense issues in the 

strategic arms accord that Russia and 

the United States have begun negotiating 

to replace the START and SORT 

agreements when they expire in a few 

years. It could also accelerate the two 

countries’ interlocking efforts to develop 

more secure international civilian 

nuclear fuel arrangements. 

WILLIAM SCHAMBRA 

“PHILANTHROPY’S MISGUIDED 

FOCUS ON ‘ROOT CAUSES’” 

Most foundations are driven by the conviction 

that they must not waste money 

on charity, which simply puts Band-Aids 

on society’s problems. Rather, they must 

try to get to the problems’ root causes, 

thereby solving them once and for all. 

After a full century of efforts to follow 

this rule, it’s time to ask: Is it anything 

more than a mindless mantra? 

June 21, National Review Online 

JOHN FONTE 

“RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING” 

As in any government policy, there are 

bureaucratic mishaps and high-handedness 

here and there, but the language of 

the immigration bill (“devastating,” 

“detrimental,” “many who suffered”) 

implies that there were major human 

rights violations against American citizens 

of European descent during World 

War II. This is simply false, and is 

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MOSCOW CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 

Piontkovsky discusses the summons and 

the state of U.S.-Russian relations with 

for mer Herman Kahn fellow Melvin 

Schut. 

Question: What happened when you 

were called back to Russia on the 

extremism charges? 

Answer: In July, the prosecutors were 

thwarted in their efforts by an independent 

and courageous local judge, who did 

not think that the evidence against me 

was sufficient. The government has now 

learned from this mistake. For the Sept - 

em ber hearing in Mos cow, rather than 

starting with criminal charges, they presented 

evidence from my writings. The 

judge decided that another expert was 

needed to determine whether the material 

I published is indeed extremist. 

Q: What does this mean for Russia’s 

Democratic Party, Yabloko, and other 

opposition forces? 

A: If Putin succeeds in his action against 

me, it would have profound political 

consequences, silencing opposition. He is 

trying to take more and more steps 

towards Yabloko’s prohibition, for ex - 

ample. Having my publications legally 

declared ex tremist and having me convicted 

would help him to do so. On the 

other hand, the fact that he has to follow 

this road shows that even Putin must 

rely on the rule of law to some extent. 

And the failure of prosecutors to get me 

convicted in July demonstrates that the 

local courts still have some autonomy, 

although the same is not true for the 

national judges. 

Q: Does your newspaper continue to be 

published? 

A: Yes, but all Russian newspapers are 

heavily censored. Until now only Internet 

publications have been relatively free. 

However, at present that small island of 

liberty is threatened as well, not least 

with the investigation into me. 

Q: What is your assessment of U.S.-Russian 

relations at this time? 

A: Clearly, Putin quite deliberately provokes 

the United States and the West. His 

reason for doing so originates in domestic 

Russian politics. Putin’s government is 

more corrupt than any previous regime 

in Russian history. Although it would be 

too strong to call it fascist, it brings to 

mind the authoritarian governments of 

South and Central America, which also 

exploited their countries for their personal 

profit. To legitimize this conduct, Putin 

and his supporters create images of foreign 

enemies. They bombard the Russian 

people with these images 24/7—and 

with considerable success. Quite frankly, 

I am astonished by the naiveté of Western 

leaders, who see Putin as a flawed ally. 

The same Putin who sells weapons to 

Hamas and to Syria is supposedly an ally 

in the fight against terrorism. A man who 

compares the United States to the Third 

Reich is re warded for his remarks with 

an invitation to Kenne bunkport, the 

family home of the Ameri can president. 

Q: In conclusion, what drew you to Hudson 

Institute? 

A: I am an applied mathematician by 

training. That interest brought me into 

the world of nuclear strategy and global 

security. From its beginning, Hudson has 

been very strong at this, starting with 

[Hudson founder] Herman Kahn, of 

course, but continuing with others. In 

general, Hudson brings me the company 

of prominent intellectuals and scholars, 

which I very much enjoy. 

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waukee, from which the Bradley Center draws its name. 

There, he led the foundation’s “New Citizenship” program, 

which the Bradley Foundation describes as “indi- 

vi d uals coming together in communities as proud, selfgoverning, 

personally responsible citizens, capable once 

again of running their own lives and affairs, freed from 

the paternalistic oversight and interference of bureaucratic 

elites.” 

Before joining Bradley in 1992, Schambra served as a 

senior adviser and chief speechwriter for public figures 

such as Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Director of the 

Office of Personnel Management Constance Horner, and 

Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan. 

He was also director of Social Policy Programs for the 

American Enterprise Institute and co-director of AEI’s 

“A Decade of Study of the Constitution.” Schambra was 

appointed by President Reagan to the National Historical 

Publications and Records Commission, and by President 

George W. Bush to the board of directors of the Corpor - 

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the theory and practice of civic revitalization, and civil society 

in the Public Interest, Public Opinion, the Wall Street 

Journal, the Washington Times, Policy Review, Christian 

Science Monitor, Nonprofit Quarterly, Philan thropy, and 

Crisis, and is the editor of several volumes, including As 

Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Collected Essays 

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