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33: 322: 269:, where he founded General Products and built his fortune. He married Annette Margolis and had two sons, Charles and Luis. Charles married Xenia. They moved to Mexico City with their newborn son, Bret, to help run the chemical company, inherited from Louis. Bret was raised there and is fluent in Spanish. As a teenager, he attended boarding school at 1873:"Donald J. Trump on Twitter: ""The infestation of bedbugs at the New York Times office" @OANN was perhaps brought in by lightweight journalist Bret Stephens, a Conservative who does anything that his bosses at the paper tell him to do! He is now quitting Twitter after being called a "bedbug." Tough guy!"" 2434:
That Stephens doesn't bother to cite which climate-change facts are uncertain may be because he knows exactly what he is doing, and he's aware he wouldn't win that argument. Or it may be because he himself has fallen prey to his own argument about epistemic uncertainty, and so he no longer thinks the
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While Stephens has garnered moderate praise from the left for being anti-Trump, he has written on other topics that may anger most Times readers. His views on climate change have created the strongest backlash, so far, with liberal site ThinkProgress questioning the hire on Wednesday and calling the
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for using a racial slur against African Americans in the context of a discussion with students of the slur's usage. Six students present on the occasion said that McNeil had used the word "in a way that they perceived as casual, unnecessary or even gratuitous", but one of them added that "McNeil's
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editors deleted the section of the column in which he appeared to claim that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically superior to other groups. The editors said that Stephens erred in citing an academic study by an author with "racist views" whose 2005 paper advanced a genetic hypothesis for the basis of
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for "his incisive columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist." He is a national judge of the Livingston Award. In 2015, Stephens joined the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences. The Real-Time Academy judges contestants for the
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and racism. The column originally said that "Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different." Following widespread criticism,
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was that he believed that Western media was getting Israel's story wrong. "I do not think Israel is the aggressor here", he said. "Insofar as getting the story right helps Israel, I guess you could say I'm trying to help Israel." Stephens led
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Corneliussen, Steven T. (April 17, 2013). "Bret Stephens, harsh Wall Street Journal critic of climate scientists, wins Pulitzer Prize: The award recognizes only certain columns from 2012, none reflecting his climate-wars participation".
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praised Stephens's "intellectual honesty and fairness". As of October 28, 2022, Stephens said that he had come to accept the reality of anthropogenic climate change after a trip to Greenland with climate scientist
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First of all, I was born in New York and I'm wondering why Knowledge (XXG) keeps insisting that i was born in Mexico. But I was born to a father who had been born in Mexico and had a family business there...
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that advocates the use of military force abroad, particularly in the Middle East, as a way of promoting democracy there. Stephens was a "prominent voice" among the media advocates for the start of the 2003
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There was particular concern that Stephens would import his penchant for climate science denialism into the Times, a fear that was validated when Stephens devoted his very first column to that subject
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tweeting, "lightweight journalist Bret Stephens, a Conservative who does anything that his bosses at the paper tell him to do! He is now quitting Twitter after being called a 'bedbug.' Tough guy!"
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In other words, the people obstructing climate policies are justified because climate "advocates" are too mean to them, and claim too much certainty about the future. This is of course nonsense.
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was released in November 2014. In it, he argues that the US has been retreating from its role as the "world's policeman" in recent decades, which will lead to ever-greater world problems.
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were never shown to exist, Stephens continued to insist as late as 2013 that the Bush administration had "solid evidence" for going to war. He has also argued strongly against the
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Stephens was born in New York City, the son of Xenia and Charles J. Stephens, a former vice president of General Products, a chemical company in Mexico. Both his parents were
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about a tweet in which the professor called Stephens a "bedbug". The topic of Stephens's next column was the "rhetoric of infestation" used by authoritarian regimes such as
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evidence matters. Either way, his accusation—that it is not the facts you should question, but the entire system that creates facts at all—is terrifying.
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are an environmental threat. According to him, "it isn't science" and belongs in the "realm of belief" as it is a "sick-souled religion". He also mocks
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weekend. His invitation provoked backlash from various student groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine, for his views about Israel.
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The naming of a "climate agnostic" as a regular columnist risks turning the newspaper of record into a vehicle for the spread of ignorance
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From The Iraq War To Climate Change To Sexual Assault, NY Times' New Op-Ed Columnist, Bret Stephens, Is A Serial Misinformer
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have a history of alternative thinking which has led them to be successful. This article led to accusations of
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reported at the time that the appointment of Stephens, a non-Israeli, triggered some unease among senior
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refusing to shake hands with his Israeli opponent after an Olympic match, in which Stephens called
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music critic. They have three children, and live in New York City. He was previously married to
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In a December 2019 column titled "The Secrets of Jewish Genius", in which he contended that
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and its preliminary agreements, claiming that they are a worse bargain even than the 1938
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omitting his climate change columns, and to a strong backlash against his 2017 hiring by
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Foreign policy was one of the central subjects of the columns for which Stephens won the
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Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?: The Munk Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy
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Stephens has chaired two Pulitzer juries. In 2016, he chaired the one that awarded the
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Paresky, Pamela; Haidt, Jonathan; Strossen, Nadine; Pinker, Steven (May 14, 2020).
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and has called for its repeal, but he does not support a ban on gun ownership.
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intelligence among Ashkenazi Jews. The Times's deletion was criticized by
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as an opinion columnist, and began appearing as an on-air contributor to
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Commentary, January 1996 (Volume 101, Issue 1), Unindexed Front Matter.
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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
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since 2017. Since 2021, he has been the inaugural editor-in-chief of
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Stephens has been one of Trump's most outspoken conservative critics
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Stephens disagrees with the mainstream conservative support for the
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management and staff. Stephens said that one of the reasons he left
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In 2002, Stephens moved to Israel to become the editor-in-chief of
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In February 2021, Stephens wrote a column critical of the
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The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology
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Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism
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and changed the family surname to Stephens (after poet
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Calderone, Michael; Baumann, Nick (April 15, 2017),
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Stephens began his career as an assistant editor at
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The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature
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His mother was born in Italy at the start of 716:Stephens is also known for his climate change 187:columnist and deputy editorial page editor at 2762:"Donald Trump's High Crimes and Misdemeanors" 1532:"The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Commentary" 1270: 1268: 1266: 1264: 204:From 2002 to 2004, he was editor-in-chief of 8: 2152: 2150: 2148: 444:In 2021, Stephens became editor-in-chief of 2632: 2630: 2470:"Soft Climate Denial at The New York Times" 1527: 1525: 280:Stephens earned an undergraduate degree in 2868:American people of Moldovan-Jewish descent 1538:articles January 24 to December 11, 2012). 1373: 1371: 884: 882: 495:Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting 31: 20: 2838:21st-century American non-fiction writers 2823:20th-century American non-fiction writers 2663:"Yes, Greenland's ice is melting, but..." 2513: 2511: 2490: 2488: 2395:, Columbia University Press, p. 70, 2843:Alumni of the London School of Economics 2413: 2411: 2351: 2349: 2347: 2300: 2298: 2296: 1144:"Bret Stephens: Out of the Echo Chamber" 1004: 1002: 790:2016 United States presidential election 731:phenomenon" and rejects the notion that 447:SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations 396:Palestinian campaign of suicide bombings 177:SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations 1651:"Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times" 1100: 1098: 915: 913: 911: 909: 878: 2544: 2542: 2188:Hoonhout, Tobias (February 11, 2021). 2037: 2035: 1164:from the original on December 14, 2021 1050:from the original on December 14, 2021 1010:"Weddings; Pamela Paul, Bret Stephens" 980:Balint, Judy Lash (January 23, 2003). 792:campaign, Stephens became part of the 288:. He then earned a master's degree in 2933:Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners 1975:Helmore, Edward (December 28, 2019). 1567: 1565: 1342: 1340: 1338: 1336: 1310:Hall, Charlotte (December 24, 2001). 1305: 1303: 814:University of California, Los Angeles 647:the column, but it was leaked to the 559:(GWU) professor and the university's 7: 2740:Stephens, Bret (February 26, 2017), 2219:Stephens, Bret (February 11, 2021). 1954:Stephens, Bret (December 28, 2019). 708:Stephens is a supporter of Israel. 507:Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing 2903:Jewish American non-fiction writers 2661:Stephens, Bret (October 28, 2022). 2637:Nuccitelli, Dana (April 29, 2017). 1796:Papenfuss, Mary (August 31, 2019). 1768:Knowles, Hannah (August 31, 2019). 1203:"Being Bret Stephens – Or Not" 1105:Klion, David (September 24, 2019). 932:writer is a climate science denier. 2833:21st-century American male writers 2818:20th-century American male writers 2255:Walt, Stephen M. (June 20, 2014). 2157:Flood, Brian (February 11, 2021). 1890:Stephens, Bret (August 15, 2016). 1083:from the original on March 4, 2016 14: 2863:American male non-fiction writers 2828:21st-century American journalists 2813:20th-century American journalists 2760:Bret Stephens (August 22, 2018). 2011:Dorman, Sam (December 28, 2019). 1407:"Bret Stephens Joins NYT Opinion" 1313:"Jerusalem Post Names New Editor" 1228:Tablet: A new read on Jewish life 1107:"The Conscience of Bret Stephens" 796:, regularly writing articles for 146: 1998, divorced) 1892:"The Meaning of an Olympic Snub" 1201:Stephens, Bret (June 26, 2009). 1069:Stephens, Bret (June 26, 2009). 946:"After Words with Bret Stephens" 450:, published by Maimonides Fund. 2873:American political commentators 2853:American foreign policy writers 2714:Concha, Joe (October 5, 2017). 1926:Bowden, John (April 26, 2017). 1387:. Jewish TeleTA. 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Interviewed by 557:George Washington University 551:George Washington University 413:. In 2006, he took over the 170:and a senior contributor to 2898:Jewish American journalists 822:impeachment of Bill Clinton 685:weapons of mass destruction 575:Comments about antisemitism 423:In 2017, Stephens left the 265:). Louis Stephens moved to 152:Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2964: 2893:The Jerusalem Post editors 2878:American political writers 2075:Columbia Journalism Review 526:'s 2023 Class Day, during 294:London School of Economics 219:right-of-center opposition 213:Stephens is known for his 183:Stephens was previously a 84:London School of Economics 2858:American male journalists 2365:. 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