Peter Beinart

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name = Peter Beinart


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education = undergraduate at Yale; MA in international relations from Oxford University
occupation = journalist, author, blogger
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credits = won Marshall Scholarship and Rhodes Scholarship, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, guest scholar at The Brookings Institution
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Peter Beinart (born 1971) is a journalist and editor-at-large for "The New Republic", having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.

Education

Beinart is a graduate of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and a member of the class of 1993 at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union. Beinart won a Marshall Scholarship (which he declined) and a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University and received a MA in international relations in 1995.

Career

Peter Beinart is a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. [http://www.cfr.org/bios/bio.html?id=12510 CFR Bio] . He had been a vocal supporter of the war in Iraq, and chastised liberals and Democrats for failing, in his eyes, to adequately recognize the threat from Islamic fundamentalism and develop an alternative response to conservative and Republican policies. At the same time, however, Beinart has been critical of the Bush administration's handling of the war and its aftermath. Beinart renounced his position supporting the war in his book, "The Good Fight".

For the December 13, 2004 edition of "The New Republic", Beinart wrote an article titled "A Fighting Faith: An Argument for a New Liberalism," in which he compared the situation facing liberals and Democrats to that faced by their counterparts in the early years of the Cold War. He argued that liberals should advocate a tough-minded foreign policy like that embraced by Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, including increased federal spending on military personnel and foreign aid. Beinart also criticized Michael Moore and MoveOn, comparing them to Henry Wallace in his Progressive Party days.

While serving as a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution Beinart expanded the essay into the book "The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again" in which Beinart admits that, if faced with the same decision to go to war in Iraq and knowing what he knows now, he would have chosen not to go to war. He argues, however, that liberals should be careful not to adopt non-interventionism in the wake of the war, but instead should rely more heavily on international institutions. Beinart has been criticized by some opponents of the war. Currently, he is working on a book that explores the idea of hubris in American foreign policy.

Beinart and Jonah Goldberg of National Review host a conservative vs. liberal webtv show called "What's your Problem?" which originally could be found on National Review Online [ [http://tv.nationalreview.com/whatsyourproblem/ What’s Your Problem? on National Review Online ] ] but is now appearing on Bloggingheads.tv [ [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Goldberg,%20Jonah&participant2=Beinart,%20Peter Jonah Goldberg and Peter Beinart on Bloggingheads.tv] ] as of 2008.

Beinart's columns also appear in Time and the Washington Post. He appears reguarly on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, and other stations to discuss American foreign policy and politics.

Personal life

Beinart is married and lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.

External links

Basic information

* [http://www.tnr.com/columnists/peter_beinart.html The New Republic bio]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-beinart The Huffington Post bio]
* [http://www.unitedfeatures.com/ufsapp/viewFeature.do?id=174 Interview with Beinart]
* [http://www.newamericancentury.org/defense-20050128.htm Signatory on PNAC January 28, 2005 Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces]
* [http://www.bigthink.com/user/peter-beinart Interview with Beinart]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Beinart,%20Peter List of video interviews/conversations with Beinart] on Bloggingheads.tv

Beinart articles

* [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2008%20-%20Summer/full-Beinart.html Beinart World Affairs article: "Balancing Act: The Other Wilsonianism"]
* [http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20041213&s=beinart121304 Beinart TNR article: "A Fighting Faith"]
* [http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040628&s=trb062804 Beinart TNR article: "Partisan Review," mostly on the Iraq War and George W. Bush.]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/magazine/30liberal.html New York Times:"The Rehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal"]
* [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663437,00.html Time Magazine: "The Devil in Every Fan"]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1818195,00.html Time Magazine: "The War Over Patriotism"]

Articles about Beinart

* [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050829&s=berman The Nation] : "The Strategic Class" - Ari Berman, where he discusses Beinart's position as a pro-war liberal.
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/28repu.html?_r=1&oref=slogin New York Times] : "Franklin Foer Is Named Top Editor of New Republic" - David Carr
* [http://jewishworldreview.com/0606/heilbrunn.php3 Jewish World Review] : "Now Dems are embracing neoconservatism" - Jacob Heilbrunn

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