The Beinart Notebook

Peter Beinart

Politics, Foreign Policy and (occasionally) the Jews

Created 29 Sep 2020

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Spencer Ackerman on What, if Anything, Comes after “The War on Terror”
15 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read
This Friday, September 17, our Zoom call will be at its normal time, Noon ET and its regular link (no registration required): https://journalism-cuny.zoom.us/j/94234983104?pwd=eWVxSmlDRDRpSEF0UVBqbEpI...
To Understand America’s Response to 9/11, Look at How America Changed Before 9/11
13 Sep 2021 • 9 min read • 7 6
This Friday, September 17, at Noon ET, we’ll be joined by the third in our triad of guests on the “war on terror,” Spencer Ackerman. Spencer is an old colleague from The New Republic who for years has...
Ben Rhodes on Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the “War on Terror,” and the Blob
09 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 2 0
This Friday, September 10, our Zoom call will be at its normal time, Noon ET and its regular link (no registration required): https://journalism-cuny.zoom.us/j/94234983104?pwd=eWVxSmlDRDRpSEF0UVBqbEpI...
In its cold war with China, America is repeating the “war on terror’s” mistakes
06 Sep 2021 • 6 min read • 14 8
This Friday, September 10, one day before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I’ll be talking at Noon ET with former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes. Ben has been unusually candid about what it’...
Fredrik Logevall on How Historians Will View Afghanistan and the “War on Terror”
01 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 4 3
This Friday, September 3, we’ll be back at our normal time, Noon ET and our regular link (no registration required): https://journalism-cuny.zoom.us/j/94234983104?pwd=eWVxSmlDRDRpSEF0UVBqbEpIRC9sZz09 ...
The End of an Era
30 Aug 2021 • 2 min read • 9 2
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, Washington’s hawkish new fixation with China—it feels like the end of one chapter in US foreign policy and the beginning of anoth...
Iyad El-Baghdadi on Identity, Islamism, and the Taliban
25 Aug 2021 • < 1 min read • 2 2
This Friday’s call will be at a special time: 11 AM ET. It will also have a special link, which you must click to register ahead of time: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pn8GRYOwTYOmEs_OYM...
What Motivates Islamists?
23 Aug 2021 • 1 min read • 6 5
On our Zoom call for subscribers this Friday, I had planned to interview Salem Barahmeh, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy. But with the chaos in Afghanistan, I’ve dec...
When Will Americans Learn that Other Nations are Nationalistic Too?
17 Aug 2021 • 6 min read • 21 20
I had planned not to write this week, but then Kabul fell. So I’ll skip next Monday instead. There will be no Zoom call this Friday, August 20. Our next call will be on Friday, August 27 at 11 AM ET w...
Discussion: Wafic Faour and Hannah Rose on the Vermont activism that convinced Ben and Jerry’s to Divest
11 Aug 2021 • < 1 min read • 3 1
Dear Subscribers, This Friday, August 13, our guests will be Wafic Faour and Hannah Rose, two activists in Vermont who helped lead the effort to convince Ben and Jerry’s to divest from Israeli settlem...