The Resnick Institute

Peter Alexander Beinart

Peter BeinartPeter Alexander Beinart is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, an editor-at-large at Jewish Currents, a contributor to The Atlantic, a political commentator for CNN, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He studied history and political science at Yale University and was later a Rhodes Scholar at University College, Oxford University, where he earned an M.Phil. in international relations in 1995. His most recent book is “The Crisis of Zionism” (2012), and he is also the author of the groundbreaking article “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” which appeared in The New York Review of Books in 2010.