Peter Beinart to Speak on Foreign Policy and the 2008 Election
Political journalist, author and television commentator Peter Beinart will speak at Muhlenberg College on September 16 at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:22 AM
Beinart’s talk, entitled “Foreign Policy Issues and the 2008 Election,” is part of the semester-long series 2008: Politics Ethics and Citizenship, sponsored by the College’s Center for Ethics. The event is free and open to the public.
A graduate of Yale University, Beinart is editor-at-large and former editor of The New Republic. He also writes a monthly column for The Washington Post and contributes to Time magazine. Beinart has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek and Reader’s Digest. In 2004, The Week magazine named him “Columnist of the Year.”
Beinart has appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, Nightline, Hardball, Kudlow and Cramer, Weekend Live and The Big Show with John Gibson, to name a few. He has appeared on C-SPAN numerous times, and on the first night of the Iraq war, as well as on election eve 2004, he was the political commentator on MTV.
Beinart is also a Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals and Liberals Only Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again.
2008: Politics, Ethics and Citizenship is presented in cooperation with the Political Science Department’s Election Series and co-sponsored by the Lectures and Forums Committee, with assistance from the Departments of Art, Media & Communication and Theatre & Dance, and the Muhlenberg Activities Council and the Multicultural Center.
For more information on this event or other Center for Ethics programs, please visit www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
