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It is true that jihadists are often middle class. But that’s because terrorist groups are like other employers: they accept the best candidates who apply.


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Peter Beinart, Editor and Columnist, The Good Fight: Why Liberals- and Only Liberals- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again

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Peter Alexander Beinart (/ˈbaɪnərt/; born 1971) is an American columnist, journalist, and political commentator. A former editor of The New Republic, he has written for Time, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books among other periodicals. He is also the author of three books. He is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is an editor-at-large at Jewish Currents, a contributor to The Atlantic, a political commentator for CNN, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.