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FIGHTING FAITHS.
A few weeks after John Kerry's defeat in the 2004 election, Peter Beinart published an essay in The New Republic, the magazine he then edited, called "A Fighting Faith." The phrase originated with Whitman and was lifted from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,'s 1949 book "The Vital Center," a battle cry of mid-century liberalism against the twin dangers of Soviet totalitarianism and its American apologists on the left, and hidebound business conservatism on the right. Beinart invoked Schlesinger, and other founders of the liberal anti-Communist organization Americans for Democratic Action, in order to throw down a challenge to the Democratic Party: "In sharp contrast to the first ...
- Cold comfort: liberalism's hawkish past is less useful as a guide to...
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Kaplan, Fred July 1, 2006 700+ words
...start of the Cold War, Beinart argues, today's...MoveOn.org if the Democratic Party is to remain relevant...electoral strategy (which Beinart means his book, in part, to be). The Democratic Party is--and, since...severe a litmus test. Beinart is right that liberals...
- A reply to Peter Beinart.(Column)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Alterman, Eric January 10, 2005 700+ words
...vision. In this regard, Beinart and TNR performed a salutary...sorely needed. Unfortunately, Beinart's own contribution is fundamentally...fantasies before that--Beinart's essay employs McCarthyite...political problem that ails the Democratic Party fits in perfectly with TNR...
- The New Republic's Peter Beinart Cans His First Editor.(Media&Society)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 8, 1999 700+ words
...the editor of The New Republic, Peter Beinart, 28, fired someone: senior editor Jacob...Heilbrunn. Mr. Heilbrunn is older than Mr. Beinart-he's 34-and was known as the "liberal...anti-isolationist perspective.) Mr. Beinart described Mr. Heilbrunn's departure...
- ...AND "THE NEW REPUBLIC'S" PETER BEINART GAVE WRY PRAISE TO HIS...
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter May 26, 2003 700+ words
...Rolling Stone, etc.), before being caught in May 1998 by Beinart predecessor/now Washington Post reporter Chuck Lane: There...Schuster-published fictionalized account of his sins), Beinart called it "a book much to his discredit." Yet, if press...
- New Republic Editor-at-Large Peter Beinart to Discuss the War on Terror.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 22, 2006 700+ words
...New Republic Editor-at-Large Peter Beinart to Discuss the War on Terror(C)1994...21092006 New Haven, Conn. -- Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of The New Republic...September 28th. At 5:30 p.m., Beinart will deliver a lecture on "A Liberal...
- Young Gun.(28-year-old editor of The New Republic, Peter Beinart)
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Guensburg, Carol November 1, 1999 700+ words
Senior writer Peter Beinart rises to the editor's chair at The...just 10 months. The 28-year-old Beinart has made his career at the left-leaning...moving to writing full time. Topics for Beinart, whose parents emigrated from South...
- Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, argues that conservatives don't care...
- Magazine article from: National Review January 31, 2005 700+ words
* Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, argues...the national agenda. The charge, as Beinart develops it, is also confused. He claims...really to care about them at all. If Beinart wants to argue that conservatives have...
- William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor (eds), Social History and African...
- Magazine article from: Africa Fontein, Joost September 22, 2004 700+ words
WILLIAM BEINART and JOANN McGREGOR (eds), Social History & African Environments...African environments and landscapes. A very thorough introduction by Beinart and McGregor goes a long way towards making up for the volume's eclecticism...
