Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart
Beinart in June 2010
Born	Peter Alexander Beinart 1971 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Spouse(s)	Diana Robin Hartstein (m. 2003; 2 children)

Peter Alexander Beinart (/ˈbaɪnərt/; born 1971) is an American columnist, journalist, and liberal political commentator. A former editor of The New Republic, he has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books among other periodicals, and is the author of three books. He is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York. Beinart has been notably outspoken in support of liberal Zionism and critical of the Israeli settler movement. He is a senior columnist at Haaretz and contributor to The Atlantic and National Journal, and a political contributor to programs on CNN.

Beinart was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, in 1971. His parents were Jewish immigrants from South Africa (his maternal grandfather was from Russia and his maternal grandmother, who was Sephardic, was from Egypt). His father's parents were from Lithuania. His mother, Doreen (née Pienaar), is former director of the Harvard's Human Rights film series at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his father, Julian Beinart, is a former professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His stepfather is theatre critic and playwright Robert Brustein. Beinart attended Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge. He then studied history and political science at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union, and graduated in 1993. He was a Rhodes Scholar at University College, Oxford University, where he earned an M.Phil. in international relations in 1995.