Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart is the current editor of The New Republic. He is a 1993 graduate of Yale University. Beinart won a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University and received a master's in international relations in 1995. He has been the editor of The New Republic since 1999.

He has been a vocal supporter of the war with Iraq, 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 entitled "A Fighting Faith: An Argument for a New Liberalism," in which he compared the situtation 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 federal spending on military personnel and foreign aid. As of September 2005, Beinart is writing a book expanding on this article while serving as a guest fellow at The Brookings Institution.

External links

• TNR bio
• Interview
• Signatory on PNAC January 28, 2005 Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces
• "The Strategic Class" by Ari Berman discusses Beinart as a pro-war liberal