Do you worry that people might start thinking of you as a kind of an actor slash activist in this rather than just an observer? Well, I'm not an activist. I'm  an academic. And this in a very important way is part of my research. My goal is to understand what's going on in Europe and explain to people what my theories say about events so that we can think smartlyAbout these issues and make smart policies. People are trying to sort of smear me because I talk to Viktor Orban. But that's the price you pay when you operate in the fast lane in the West at this point in time.