NY Observer > Peter Beinart http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/24566/feed Articles from Observer.com en Living in a Fantasy At Home and Abroad http://www.observer.com/node/39050 It was only a matter of time before the people who go to Disneyland/World would want to live there.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39050#comments Politics Haditha Harry S. Truman Peter Beinart William Kristol Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Nicholas von Hoffman 39050 at http://www.observer.com Off the Record http://www.observer.com/node/51937 New York Times White House correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller is close to signing a deal with Random H  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/51937#comments Media Franklin Foer Martin Peretz Peter Beinart Steven Weisman Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500 Observer Staff 51937 at http://www.observer.com Beinart Out, Foer In at TNR http://www.observer.com/node/32819 New Republic editor Peter Beinart is not going to be the next editor of The Atlantic, he told the Observer two weeks ago. But he may not be editor of The New Republic much longer, either. Persistent Beltway rumor has Beinart stepping down from his post, to be replaced by TNR senior editor Franklin Foer. An announcement could come as early as Tuesday.

[Update: In a story for tomorrow's paper, posted on the Web this evening, The New York Times confirms that Foer is replacing Beinart.]

"I'm not going to confirm anything," New Republic owner and editor-in-chief Martin Peretz said by phone this afternoon, as he prepared to catch a flight to Israel. "Call me tomorrow."

Neither Beinart nor Foer returned calls seeking comment.

Beinart has been editor of the weekly since November of 1999. His presence has diminished recently, however. For much of the last year, he was on leave writing The Good Fight, a book based on a 6,000-word meditation on John Kerry's defeat he wrote for TNR in 2004. The book is due out from HarperCollins in June.

Foer has recently been courted by The New York Times, which hoped to hire him to write about the culture of Washington, D.C.

Some New Republic staffers said they were unaware of any pending masthead changes.

"I don't know what's going on," one staffer said. "Beinart is definitely back and 90 percent of where he was before. Before the book, he was committed 24 hours [a day] to TNR. Now it's 20 hours. He's still very committed, but with the understandable coda that he's writing his book."

--Gabriel Sherman]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32819#comments Media Franklin Foer Gabriel Sherman Martin Peretz Peter Beinart Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:37:23 -0500 Observer Staff 32819 at http://www.observer.com Hillary Stays Still http://www.observer.com/node/27042
Apologies for linking this Washington Post piece (a version of which also ran in New York) a few days late, but it's worth reading.

Peter Beinart agrees with our longstanding gripe that despite the attraction of the "Hillary Moves Right" storyline, it happens to be false.

The narrative has gained strength from the fact that everyone seems to like it: the mainstream media, who are looking for signs of a Clinton run for president; some of Hillary's aides, who see it as affirmation of what the've argued all along -- that she's a centrist; and perhaps most of all, the right.

Beinart looks at that last piece and argues:

"The 'Hillary shifts to the center' line isn't innocuous at all. It's crucial to the campaign that conservatives will wage against her in years to come. That campaign is likely to revolve around character."
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/27042#comments Politics Peter Beinart The Washington Post Company Tue, 17 May 2005 07:57:00 -0400 Observer Staff 27042 at http://www.observer.com Jeff Ballabon http://www.observer.com/node/26832
We venture into the realm of people with actual power in Washington today with a profile of Jeff Ballabon, a little-known, extremely well-connected Jewish Republican who is among the leaders of the movement of Orthodox Jews into the Republican Party.

Peter Beinart's definitive piece on that trend is here, but Ballabon's a fascinating character as much for his personal complexities -- Yeshiva boy, Yale Law School and, as Spitzer aide Cindy Darrison would have it, neanderthal/feminist.

The profile also gave us an excuse to read an excellent detective novel called Bag Men, one of whose characters, Detective Shecky Bliss, is modeled on Ballabon. Read the piece for some Ralph Reed fun and a different perspective on John Ashcroft from the one usually heard around here.
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/26832#comments Politics Cindy Darrison Peter Beinart Shecky Bliss Yale Law School Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:54:00 -0500 Observer Staff 26832 at http://www.observer.com Countdown to Bliss http://www.observer.com/node/48224 Peter Beinart and Diana Hartstein Met: Aug. 6, 2001

Engaged: Feb. 14, 2003  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/node/48224#comments Media Diana Hartstein Lyndsey Grimes Matthew Cooper Peter Beinart Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:00:00 -0500 Anna Jane Grossman 48224 at http://www.observer.com Post-Gore Marty Re-Refurbishing The New Republic http://www.observer.com/node/47159 Here we go again: The New Republic 's railing on the Democratic Party.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/47159#comments Media Jorge Martin Salimei Michael Kinsley New Republic Inc. Peter Beinart Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:00:00 -0500 Sridhar Pappu 47159 at http://www.observer.com The New Republic 's Peter Beinart Cans His First Editor http://www.observer.com/node/42188 Just call him the Butcher Boy. On Nov.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42188#comments Media American Lawyer Media Holdings Inc. Jacob Heilbrunn New Republic Inc. Peter Beinart Sun, 07 Nov 1999 19:00:00 -0500 Carl Swanson 42188 at http://www.observer.com Marty Peretz Hires Nice Young Man as New Republic Editor http://www.observer.com/node/42077 Peter Beinart, a self-effacing, 28-year-old former intern at The New Republic , is set to become the  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42077#comments Media Doreen Beinart Martin Peretz New Republic Inc. Peter Beinart Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:00:00 -0400 Carl Swanson 42077 at http://www.observer.com Sy Versus Spy: Why the Mission Without Mercy? http://www.observer.com/node/41021 The hailstorm that's coming down on Jonathan Pollard's head is a veritable wonder to behold.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/41021#comments Israel Jonathan Pollard Peter Beinart U.S. Department of State Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:00:00 -0500 Anne Roiphe 41021 at http://www.observer.com