Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart

Editor-at-Large, The New Republic

Peter Beinart has been at The New Republic since 1999, where he is a journalist and editor-at-large. He is also a contributor to Time magazine and writes a monthly column for the Washington Post. Beinart graduated in 1993 from Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union. In 1995, he received his MA in international relations from Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. Critical of the Bush administration's handling of the war and its aftermath, Beinart was nonetheless a vocal supporter of the war itself, defending that position on the PBSshow Buying The War, with Bill Moyers. However, in Beinart's book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals-and Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (2006), which he expanded from an essay as a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution, he renounced his position, claiming that if he'd known then what he knows now about the capitulation of the War on Terror, he wouldn't have supported it in the first place. Beinart is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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We need to restore our stature among other nations.
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Writing should be judged by its quality, not its venue.
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Institutions of global governance need to be reformed.
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We need to manage globalization more equitably.
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The US is wholly unique culture that has grown out of an enlightened liberal tradition.
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Media failed us in the lead up to the Iraq War.
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Not broken but not working as well as it should.
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Democracy is essentially a good thing for the world.
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America’s obligation to protect other countries and vice versa.
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The challenges of imposing intellectual order on human actions.
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Although people don’t feel that their lives have been directly changed by the Iraq war, they do feel that it changed their perception of the government, and of America’s role […]
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Presidents who take power in a time when Americans are feeling disillusioned, or in some way defeated must be naturally good at restoring American sense of self-confidence.
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“It is an important part of the story that America had . . . that you had a period preceding those wars of enormous success � both relative prosperity at […]