19 Facts About Peter Beinart

Peter Alexander Beinart is an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator.

Peter Beinart is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

Peter Beinart is an editor-at-large at Jewish Currents, a contributing opinion columnist at The New York Times, a political commentator for MSNBC, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

Peter Beinart's mother, Doreen, is a former director of the human-rights film program at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and his father, Julian Beinart, is a former professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peter Beinart's stepfather is theatre critic and playwright Robert Brustein.

Peter Beinart then studied history and political science at Yale College, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and graduated in 1993 with the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize.

Peter Beinart worked at The New Republic as the managing editor from 1995 to 1997, then as senior editor until 1999, and as the magazine's editor from 1999 to 2006.

Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York.

Peter Beinart has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and other periodicals.

Peter Beinart has appeared on various TV news discussion programs and is a political commentator for MSNBC.

Peter Beinart was a senior political writer for The Daily Beast.

Also in 2012, Peter Beinart was included on Foreign Policy magazine's list of 100 top global thinkers.

On November 4,2013, Haaretz announced that Peter Beinart would be hired as a columnist beginning January 1,2014.

In 2017, Peter Beinart left Haaretz and became a columnist for The Forward, where he stayed until 2020, when he joined Jewish Currents as an editor-at-large.

Peter Beinart called his experience "trivial" when compared to the experiences of others, particularly Palestinians and Palestinian Americans who travel through Israel's main airport.

Peter Beinart was the editor of The New Republic when the publication editorially supported the 2003 Invasion of Iraq; Peter Beinart was identified as one of the major forces behind the magazine's support for the war.

Peter Beinart's second book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, was born from his desire to understand how he had gotten the Iraq War so wrong.

Particularly, Peter Beinart contends that policies advocated by Zionists, especially under Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud government, are increasingly at odds with liberal ideals.

Peter Beinart keeps kosher, regularly attends an Orthodox synagogue, and has sent his children to a Jewish day school.