The Beinart Notebook

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, a world-renowned scholar of fascism and author of the new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future . We talk about Donald Trump’s victory and what it means for liberal democracy in the United States.

Our call this week, for paid subscribers, will be on Friday at 1 PM Eastern . That will be our new regular time. (West Coast subscribers, we’ve heard you.) Our guest will be Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, a world-renowned scholar of fascism and author of the new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future . We’ll talk about what happened in Tuesday’s electi...

Our guest is Gaza-born journalist, Muhammad Shehada, whose writing has been indispensable over the last year. While we usually reserve audio of our Friday zoom calls for paid subscribers, Muhammad’s description of life in Gaza, and life outside of Gaza when your family is there, was so eloquent and haunting that I felt it needed as wide a distribution as possible. This is a public episode. If you'...

The Consequences of a Trump Presidency Are Simply Too Dire This Week’s Call: Palestinian-American political strategist Rania Batrice Our guest this week will be Rania Batrice, former deputy campaign manager for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, and an advisor on paid media for the Uncommitted campaign. I don’t know if Rania agrees with my arguments for supporting Harris, but she’s one of the smart...

Our guests are Efrat Machikawa and Boaz Atzili. Efrat’s uncle, Gadi Mozes, was abducted on October 7. Boaz's cousin, Aviv Atzili, was killed on October 7th in Kibbutz Nir Oz and his body was taken to Gaza. Aviv's wife, Liat Atzili, was released in the ceasefire and hostages deal in November. Both Efrat and Boaz are activists for a ceasefire. I’m grateful to them for taking the time to talk to me i...

There will be no zoom call this week. We’ll resume on Friday, November 1 at 11 AM with Seth Anziska discussing Israel’s invasion of Lebanon . My New Book Knopf will publish my new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza , on January 28 of next year. I hope the book will contribute, in some small way, to changing the conversation among Jews about what is being done in our name. But I’m kee...

Our guest is the award-winning author and journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message , chronicles his trip to Palestine and Israel (alongside trips to Senegal and South Carolina) and meditates on why some people’s stories are told and others are erased. We’ll talk about how he came to write about Israel-Palestine, about how victims become victimizers, about the backlash he’s experienc...

Our guest will be Trita Parsi , executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and one of the most thoughtful and best-informed observers in Washington about the relationship between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran. We’ll discuss Israel’s recent attack, US policy and the danger of a regional war. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

Our call this week, for paid subscribers, will be at a special time: Wednesday at 11 AM Eastern . Our guest will be the Gaza-born journalist Muhammad Shehada, whose writing has been indispensable over the last year. I cited him in a recent essay in The Guardian , which noted that some of the most prescient predictions about what would happen if Israel invaded Gaza came from Palestinian commentator...

Joshua Leifer is author of the new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life . It’s the best history of American Jewish politics I’ve read and offers a provocative analysis of the American Jewish future. Josh’s launch event was cancelled the week of this discussion, when the bookstore that was hosting it objected because the moderator, Rabbi Andy...

Our call this week, for paid subscribers, will be at a special time: Thursday at 11 AM Eastern . Our guest will be the award-winning author and journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message , chronicles his trip to Palestine and Israel (alongside trips to Senegal and South Carolina) and meditates on why some people’s stories are told and others are erased. We’ll talk about how he came to...

Abdullah Hammoud is the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, the largest city with an Arab-American majority in the United States. We talked about how residents of Dearborn have reacted to the war in Gaza and whether Kamala Harris is doing enough to win their votes. Audio Podcasts unlock automatically after six weeks for free subscribers. To get them right away and support my work, please consider upgradi...

After Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race, we talked to two Democratic strategists about what happens now, and what impact it could have on US policy towards the Gaza War. Rania Batrice is a Palestinian-American political consultant. She served as deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and this year has been the media consultant for the Uncommi...

I know why Israelis are happy Nasrallah is dead, but this war will make everyone less safe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit peterbeinart.substack.com/subscribe

Laila Al-Arian is an investigative journalist and executive producer of Fault Lines , an Emmy and Peabody award-winning show on Al Jazeera English. She’s also the executive producer of “ The Night Won’t End ,” an extraordinarily powerful documentary about three families in Gaza during this war. We talk about how the documentary was made, what it reveals about how Israel is waging this war and abou...

Given the growing chance of a regional war in the Middle East, our guest will be one of the best analysts of Palestinian and Middle Eastern politics, Mouin Rabbani , Co-Editor of Jadaliyya , a publication of the Arab Studies Institute, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies . We’ll talk about the attack in Majdal Shams, the spate of recent Israeli assassinati...

Among Other Things, Israel’s War in Lebanon Could Help Elect Trump This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit peterbeinart.substack.com/subscribe

James Zogby is founder of the Arab American Institute , and a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee. He recently offered a proposal for how to replace President Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee. We’ll talk about the pressure inside the party on Biden to bow out, and what might happen if he does. Interview co-sponsored with Jewish Currents . This is a public episode. If you'd...

Her Own Life Story Disproves Trump and Vance’s Lies Kamala Harris never spoke to the camera and said, you know what, my parents are immigrants. And they contributed a lot to this country. And we have something to thank them for, and immigrants actually make this country better. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pet...

Rami Khouri is a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC, and a regular columnist for Al Jazeera Online. Rami lived in Beirut for 17 years and has for many years written about relations between Israel and Lebanon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get a...

Shouldn’t the US Care as Much about Americans Killed by the IDF as it Cares about Americans Killed by Hamas? Our call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern. Our guest will be Simon Fitzgerald, a trauma surgeon in Brooklyn who has worked in telemedicine in Gaza, particularly at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis with Dr. Khaled Alser. According to colleagues , Dr. Alser has...

Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson are co-authors of the book, The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know About Each Other . Since October 7, dialogue between Palestinians and Jews has become even more difficult, and there are those in both communities—and on the left and right—who question its value. I’m excited to ask Raja and Jeffrey to respond to those criticisms, and to ex...

Our call this week will be at a special time: Wednesday at 11 AM Eastern Our guest will be Trita Parsi , executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and one of the most thoughtful and best-informed observers in Washington about the relationship between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran. We’ll discuss Israel’s recent attack, US policy and the danger of a regional war. Paid subscribers will get the li...

Our call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern. Our guest will Joshua Leifer , author of the new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life . It’s the best history of American Jewish politics I’ve read and offers a provocative analysis of the American Jewish future. Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and th...

Our call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern. Our guest will Abdullah Hammoud , the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, the largest city with an Arab-American majority in the United States. We’ll talk about how residents of Dearborn have reacted to the war in Gaza and whether Kamala Harris is doing enough to win their votes. Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday a...