Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, and Sharron Angle won their primaries last night-but now they face uphill general election fights. Peter Beinart on how the GOP's fetish for ideological purity is hurting their chances of winning elections. For the...
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has announced plans to escort two aid ships to Gaza, as four Palestinian militants are killed off the coast by the Israeli navy. Meanwhile, Netanyahu's response to the crisis shows just how out of touch he is with...
The Icarus Syndrome is an argument wrapped around three stories. The argument is that success breeds disaster. The process plays itself out this way: A group of foreign policy thinkers and actors hit upon a strategy for dealing with some immediate, finite problem...read more
Many Americans are anxious about the U.S. losing its supreme-superpower status. But in an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Peter Beinart says we need not dominate the world to enjoy it. An excerpt from the conclusion of The Icarus Syndrome: A...
Critics of Israel's blockade are perfectly right to oppose it. But if they really want to put the Netanyahu government in a corner, Peter Beinart says, they should also take up the cause of an Israeli captive of Hamas. An Israeli journalist named...
Don't blame the commandos for the flotilla disaster. Blame Israel's leaders, who enforce the cruel and corrupt Gaza embargo, and their supporters in America. "If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who...
Ami has two roundups of the responses generated by Peter Beinart’s take on what’s wrong with the Jewish establishment and what he says is its unquestioning support for Israel.
Peter Beinart, a journalism professor and the author of the forthcoming book “The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris,” visited the Forward studio to discuss his recent New York Review of Books essay. In the piece, he faults Israel’s government and American Jewish leaders for the alienation from Israel that many young American Jews experience. In this podcast, Larry Cohler-Esses, the Forward’s news editor, asks Beinart about his motivations for publishing the essay, why he thinks it struck a nerve in the blogosphere and whether he believes a two-state solution is still feasible.
Pundit Peter Beinart discusses his recent essay arguing that American Jews are becoming alienated from Israel -- and blaming U.S. Jewish groups for refusing to criticize the Israeli government’s perceived rightward shift.