Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 22, 2006|Volume 35, Number 3

Peter Beinart

New Republic editor visits as Poynter Fellow

Peter Beinart '93, editor-at-large of The New Republic and author of the recently published book "The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again," will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow on Thursday, Sept. 28.

Beinart will be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. hosted by Steven Smith at the Branford College master's house, 80 High St. At 5:30 p.m., he will deliver a Poynter Lecture on the topic "A Liberal Vision for the War on Terror" in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. Both events are free and open to the public.

Beinart, who won both Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships while a student at Yale, earned an M.Phil. in international relations from University College, Oxford, in 1995. He was a managing editor of The New Republic before being named its senior editor in 1997. From 1999 to 2006 he served as the magazine's editor. His weekly "TRB" column is syndicated in The New York Post and other newspapers.

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 University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

HarperCollins published "The Good Fight" this past spring. In the book, Beinart contends that the failure of liberals at the polls is a result of not being able to articulate a foreign policy vision, and he argues that the struggle against Islamist totalitarianism should define contemporary liberal politics as the fight against Soviet totalitarianism defined liberalism during the Cold War.

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

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