Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart
Beinart in 2025, by Gili Getz
Born
Peter Alexander Beinart

(1971-02-28) February 28, 1971
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationYale University (BA)
University College, Oxford (MPhil)
Spouse
Diana Hartstein
(m. 2003)
Children2
RelativesRobert Brustein (stepfather)
Websitehttps://peterbeinart.net

Peter Alexander Beinart (/ˈbnərt/; born February 28, 1971) is an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator. A former editor of The New Republic, he has also written for Time, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books, among other periodicals. He has written five books.

He is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is an editor-at-large at Jewish Currents, a contributing opinion columnist at The New York Times, a political commentator for MSNBC, CNN, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.