Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart

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Peter Beinart is Editor-at-Large of The New Republic, and writes its weekly TRB column, which is syndicated in The New York Post and other newspapers. He is also a nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Beinart graduated from Yale University in 1993, winning both Rhodes and Marshall (declined) scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University. After graduating from University College, Oxford in the summer of 1995 with a Masters of Philosophy degree in International Relations, Beinart returned to TNR as Managing Editor. He became Senior Editor in 1997, and from 1999 to 2006 served as the magazine's Editor.

Beinart also writes a monthly column for The Washington Post, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Time, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. In 2004, The Week magazine named him columnist of the year. In 2005, he delivered the Theodore H. White lecture at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

He is a regular guest on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, and has appeared on ABC's The Week with George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, MTV, and many other television programs.

Blog Entries by Peter Beinart

Why the Dems Should Go for It

Posted March 28, 2007 | 07:07 PM (EST)

Since the Democrats won control of Congress last fall, they've been besieged with warnings against acting too aggressively on Iraq. Such "moves carry clear risks for a party that suffered politically for pushing to end an unpopular war in Vietnam," suggested the Washington Post in January. And now that Nancy...

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In Praise of Mark Malloch Brown

Posted June 8, 2006 | 12:21 PM (EST)

Hooray for Mark Malloch Brown. The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General has finally done what Democratic politicians should have long ago: he has stood up to the right's mindless UN-bashing. The Bush administration says it wants to see the institution reformed. And it badly needs to be -- for our sake...

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Haditha

Posted June 1, 2006 | 12:27 AM (EST)

One of the critical differences between the liberal and conservative foreign policy traditions is their willingness to accept that America is capable of evil. For conservatives -- as I write in my new book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America...

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What the Afghan Riots Teach

Posted May 31, 2006 | 12:34 AM (EST)

In her post about Afghanistan, Arianna ends by saying that we need to remember the problems there the "next time the president waxes lyrical about spreading democracy and liberty across the globe."

But there's something else we need to remember -- something I write about in my book,...

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