Gabriel Schoenfeld

Dr. Gabriel Schoenfeld, a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, is at work on a book about secrecy and national security that W.W. Norton will be bringing out in 2010 under the title,  Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law (available for pre-order from Amazon.com).  Schoenfeld's previous book, The Return of Anti-Semitism, was published by Encounter in 2003. Schoenfeld writes regularly on national security and intelligence for the Wall Street Journal. His op-eds, book reviews, and articles have also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, the National Interest, the New Leader, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Der Spiegel, and the Asahi Shimbun. He has appeared as a guest commentator on the major broadcast and cable television networks, including ABC's Nightline, PBS's Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, CBS, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal Report with Paul Gigot, CBC (Canada), NHK (Japan), and numerous radio programs.

From 1994 to 2008, Schoenfeld was senior editor of Commentary. Prior to joining Hudson, Schoenfeld was a resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, where he retains an active affiliation. Before joining Commentary in 1994, Schoenfeld was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., where he founded the research bulletin Soviet Prospects. Schoenfeld served on the staff of Daniel Patrick Moynihan during his first term in the United States Senate. In 1986 he was a temporary Foreign Service Officer in the USSR (stationed in Irkutsk, Tbilisi, and Tashkent) with the United States Information Agency. Schoenfeld earned a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, was an IREX Scholar at Moscow State University, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University's government department. The father of three daughters, he lives in New York City.

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