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This conference is the inspiration of Penn Kemble, who has worked steadily over the
years to convene and energize a community of people committed to democratic values
and connected, in one way or another, to the legacy of Sidney Hook. It is sponsored
by the League for Industial Democracy and Social Democrats, USA

Penn Kemble is Co-Editor of Democracy Digest and Senior Scholar at Freedom House.
He previously served as Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency under President
Clinton and as Special Representative of the Secretary of State for the Community of Democracies
Initiative, an undertaking that brought together 106 democracies in Warsaw in June, 2000. He
currently serves on the Board of Directors of the League for Industrial Democracy and is a
member of the National Committee of Social Democrats, U.S.A

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PROGRAM

9:00-9:30am Registration and Coffee

9:30-9:45am Overview and Introduction:
Penn Kemble, Co-Editor, Democracy Digest; Senior Scholar, Freedom House
Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy

9:45-11:00am International Democracy and the New Totalitarianism
Chair: Eugenia Kemble, Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute
Panelists: Ladan Boroumand, Director, Abdorrahman Borourmand Foundation


for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
Adrian Karatnycky, Counselor and Senior Scholar, Freedom House
Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute;

author, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Marc Plattner, Vice President, Research & Studies, National Endowment for Democracy;
Co-director, International Forum; Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy

11:15-12:30pm Liberty and Security: The Precarious Balance
Chair: David Lowe, Vice President for Government & External Relations, National Endowment for Democracy
Panelists: Peter Berkowitz, George Mason University School of Law; fellow, Hoover Institution
Walter Berns, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; author, Making Patriots
Morton H. Halperin, Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress; Director of US Advocacy,


Open Society Institute
Robert Leiken, Director, Immigration and National Security Program, The Nixon Center;

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

12:30-1:45pm Luncheon Address: Defending American Values at Home and Abroad
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago;


author, Just War Against Terror

2:00–3:15pm Prospects for American Labor
Chair: Tom Donahue, President Emeritus, AFL-CIO; Senior Fellow, Work in America Institute
Panelists: Michael Allen, Co-Editor, Democracy Digest/Nstional Endowment for Democracy
Phil Kugler, Assistant to the President for Organization and Field Services, American Federation of Teachers
David Kusnet, Visiting Fellow, Economic Policy Institute; former Chief Speechwriter, President Bill Clinton;


author, Love the Work, Hate the Job (forthcoming)
Arch Puddington, Director of Research, Freedom House; author, Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor

3:30–5:00pm American Liberalism and the Legacy of Sidney Hook
Chair: Rita Freedman, Director, Office of the President, American Federation of Teachers
Panelists: Paul Berman, author, Power and the Idealists, and Terror and Liberalism
Rachelle Horowitz, former Political Director, American Federation of Teachers; Vice Chair, National Democratic Institute
Fred Siegel, Cooper Union, New York; author, The Prince Of The City: Giuliani, New York


And The Genius Of American Life

Ron Radosh, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; co-author, Red Star Over Hollywood

5:00–5:30pm Tributes to the Work of Penn Kemble
Dave Jessup. President, Social Democrats, USA; President, Foundation for Democratic Education
Max Kampelman, Of Counsel, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; Presidential Medal of Freedom


recipient; former Ambassor, CSCE
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Professor, Georgetown University;

former US Representative to the United Nations

Ben Wattenberg, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; host, Think Tank; author,

Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
Dick Wilson, Director, New Economy Informaiton Service

5:30-7:00 Reception