Gabriel Schoenfeld joined Commentary in 1994 and is currently its senior editor. Gabe has written for Commentary on a wide range of subjects, including the CIA, Israeli security, the Vietnam war, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, the cold war, anti-Semitism, and 20th-century German and Russian history. Gabe’s articles have also been published in a number of other leading publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, 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. His book, The Return of Anti-Semitism, was published by Encounter in 2003.

Gabe has testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee on the responsibilities of the media during wartime. He has also appeared as a commentator on a variety of network news shows, including CNN, CBS, PBS’s Jim Lehrer NewsHour, CBC (Canada), and NHK (Japan). Gabe, who has a United States Chess Federation master rating, is also a chess columnist for the New York Sun.

Prior to joining Commentary, Gabe was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., where he founded the research bulletin Soviet Prospects. In the 1980’s, Gabe served briefly as a temporary foreign-service officer with the USIA in the USSR. He also served on the staff of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan during his first term, beginning in 1978.

Gabe earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University’s government department in 1989 and lives in New York City.