Peter Beinart

Senior Fellow
Peter Beinart
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Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York, Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast-Newsweek, and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.His first book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. His latest book, The Crisis of Zionism, which expands his New York Review of Books essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” will be published by Times Books in April 2012.

Beinart has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, Time, Slate, Reader's Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. In 2005, he delivered the Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

He has appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC's "This Week," "Charlie Rose," "The McLaughlin Group," "The Colbert Report," MTV, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and many other television and radio programs. Beinart graduated from Yale University in 1993, winning a Rhodes scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University. After graduating from University College, Oxford with an M.Phil in International Relations, Beinart became The New Republic's managing editor in 1995. He became senior editor in 1997, and from 1999 to 2006 served as the magazine's Editor. Beinart was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2007 to 2009.

He lives in New York with his wife and two children.

Publications

Article | Jan 3, 2012 | The Daily Beast
Article | Jan 2, 2012 | The Daily Beast
Article | Dec 16, 2011 | The Daily Beast
Article | Dec 12, 2011 | The Daily Beast
Article | Nov 25, 2011 | The Daily Beast

Events

Event | Jun 15, 2010 | Washington
Event | Jun 1, 2010 | Washington
Event | Jan 12, 2010 | Washington
Event | Dec 14, 2009 | Washington

Press

In the News Item | Jan 17, 2012 | The Guardian (London)
In the News Item | Jan 11, 2012 | mocoNews.net
In the News Item | Jan 2, 2012 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
In the News Item | Dec 21, 2011 | Salon
In the News Item | Dec 14, 2011 | WBUR
In the News Item | Nov 30, 2011 | Washingtonian
In the News Item | Nov 29, 2011 | The Jewish Week
In the News Item | Nov 13, 2011 | Jewish Daily Forward

Areas of Expertise

Foreign Policy