Peter Beinart
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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 1993 graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union. Beinart won a Marshall Scholarship (declined) and a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University and received a master's in international relations in 1995.
He has been a vocal supporter of the war in Iraq (a position he renounces in his book, The Good Fight), often chastising 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.
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 opponents of the war, such as David Sirota, who accused him of "brazen hypocrisy". [1]
Beinart is married and lives with his wife and son in Washington, D.C.
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[edit] External links
[edit] Basic information
- The New Republic bio
- Interview with Beinart
- Signatory on PNAC January 28, 2005 Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces
[edit] Beinart articles
- Beinart TNR article: "A Fighting Faith"
- Beinart TNR article: "Partisan Review," mostly on the Iraq War and George W. Bush.
- New York Times:"The Rehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal"
[edit] Articles about Beinart
- The Nation: "The Strategic Class" - Ari Berman, where he discusses Beinart's position as a pro-war liberal.
- New York Times: "Franklin Foer Is Named Top Editor of New Republic" - David Carr
- Jewish World Review: "Now Dems are embracing neoconservatism" - Jacob Heilbrunn
- Review of The Good Fight by Marcus A. Roberts [ Carnegie Council ]
