White Lecture at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. His latest book from Times Books, The Crisis of Zionism, expands his New York Review of Books essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment.” He is the editor of the Daily Beast blog Open Zion which facilitates an open and unafraid conversation about Israel.īeinart has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, Time, Slate, Reader's Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. His second book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York, Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast-Newsweek, and a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.His first book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals-and Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, was published by HarperCollins in 2006. Peter Beinart, Professor of Journalism and Political Science, The City University of New York Thursday, September 6, 2012