A 2004 essay in The New Republic by Associate Professor Peter Beinart has been nominated as one of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade, 2000-2009. The winners will be selected in the next week by faculty from New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, together with a group of outside judges, and they will be announced in order on April 5th.

Beinart’s piece argued that liberals, who once failed to take the Soviet threat seriously enough, were being similarly lax on Islamic extremism. At the time he wrote “A Fighting Faith: An Argument For A New Liberalism,” Beinart was editor of the The New Republic.

Beinart joined the faculty of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism last fall to teach national political reporting and opinion writing. He is also senior political writer at The Daily Beast and a contributor to Time.

Some 80 works of journalism are in contention for the best of the decade prize. They were nominated by the NYU journalism faculty (with some student suggestions) and by the outside judges, who include: Madeleine Blais (University of Massachusetts), Dorothy Rabinowitz (The Wall Street Journal), Morley Safer (60 Minutes), Gene Roberts (University of Maryland), Ben Yagoda (University of Delaware), Eric Newton (Knight Foundation), Ron Allen (NBC), Kathleen Parker (The Washington Post), Leon Dash (University of Illinois), Juan Williams (NPR), Ezra Klein (blog, The Washington Post), Alex Jones (Shorenstein Center, Harvard), Sylvia Nasar (Columbia), Daisy Hernández (Colorlines), and Greil Marcus (cultural critic).