[3] Schmitt has written extensively on budget and tax policy, and on the history and role of ideas in politics.

Mr. Schmitt has also written for The New Republic, The Financial Times, and many other publications, and has contributed chapters to numerous books.

In 2003, he launched The Decembrist, which was named one of the five best political blogs in 2004 by Forbes, but which has been inactive since 2008.

He guided the Prospect during a period when it won several awards, including the Utne Reader award for best political magazine, for its coverage of the policy and political battles of the first two years of the Obama administration.

From 1998 to 2005, he directed a program on political reform at George Soros's Open Society Institute.