Biography

Peter Beinart

by Simond Cannon,

Synopsis

Forty-five years old Peter Alexander Beinart is an American columnist, journalist, and political commentator. He is a former editor of The New Republic and has written for Time, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books.  Peter currently works as a CNN political commentator, regularly appearing across the network’s programming and special political coverage.

Alexander Beinart is a senior columnist at Haaretz and contributor to The Atlantic and National Journal. Peter was born on 1971, in Cambridge, Ma s sachusetts, United States America. He belongs to American nationality and his ethnicity is white.

Early life and Education

Beinart spent his wonderful childhood in his birthplace with his family. Peter is the son of Julian Beinart, a former professor of architecture at the Ma s sachusetts Institute of Technology and his mother is Doreen, who is a former director of the Harvard’s Human Rights film series. His parents were Jewish immigrants from South Africa. Peter attended Buckingham Browne and Nichols School situated in Cambridge.

After he completed his schooling, he moved to Yale University in 1993, where he studied history and political science. There, he was also a member of the Yale Political Union. In 1995, he attended the Oxford University, where he earned an M.Phil in international relation.

Career

Peter Beinart began his career at The New Republic, where he worked as the managing editor from 1995 to 1997, then as senior editor until 1999, and as the magazine’s editor from 1999 to 2006. For much of the time, he wrote The New Republic’s signature ‘TRB’ column that converted in The New York Post and other newspaper. He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2007 to 2009.

Works and views

Peter is the author the book The Good Fight: Why Liberals and Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make American Great Again that published in 2006. Peter was a vocal supporter of the 2003 U.S.led invasion of Iraq. He published his econ book in 2010, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.

Personal life and Affair

Peter has been married to Diana Robin Hartstein since 2003, who is a lawyer. They currently live with their two children in New York City.