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Fast Forward In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL and investing more in Jewish identity
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, was in the audience for a talk he called 'misguided'
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Fast Forward Times Revises Bret Stephens’ ‘Jewish Genius’ Op-Ed
Days after publication, The New York Times removed chunks of text referring to an academic paper from Bret Stephens’s controversial column on “Jewish genius.” The reason? The study Stephens cited was co-authored by a man considered a white nationalist. Stephens quoted the paper’s statistics on IQ in a column “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,”, in…
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Fast Forward Here’s Why The Professor Who Called Bret Stephens A Bed Bug Would Do It Again
On Wednesdays David Karpf teaches Strategic Political Communication. The class usually begins with students discussing recent instances of public figures making significant strategic communication mistakes. Possible grist for the mill — and this is just from white men — could have been Donald Trump’s flip-flopping statements on gun regulation or the trade war with China;…
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Fast Forward Bret Stephens, Apoplectic At Being Called A Bedbug, Quits Twitter
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens deactivated his Twitter account on Tuesday, one day after his over-the-top reaction to a professor’s joke about him on social media. After reports emerged on Monday that there was a bedbug infestation in the Times’s office, George Washington University professor David Karpf tweeted, “The bedbugs are a metaphor. The…
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The Schmooze Michelle Wolf Roasts Bari Weiss In Vicious (And Musical) Critique Of Times
If you didn’t like it when Michelle Wolf commented on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ eye-makeup, you’re gonna want to look away. In a new episode of her Netflix talkshow “The Break with Michelle Wolf,” the comedian skewered what she called the “uptick in insane headlines populating the opinion column,” focusing on the New York Times. Highlighting…
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Opinion Actually, Steve Bannon Is Not An Anti-Semite. He’s Something Worse.
Last week in The New York Times, columnist Bret Stephens did something brave: He called the Zionist Organization of America’s decision to host Steve Bannon at its gala “a disgrace.” Stephens’s condemnation was brave because ZOA enjoys considerable support in the hawkish Zionist circles in which he travels. Its gala featured, in addition to Bannon,…
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Fast Forward New York Times Publisher Defends Hiring Conservative Columnist Bret Stephens
(JTA) — The publisher of The New York Times sent a personal letter to subscribers who canceled over the newspaper’s hiring of conservative columnist Bret Stephens. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. sent the email on Friday afternoon to subscribers who specifically mentioned Stephens as their reason for canceling their subscription, Politico reported. Stephens, who is Jewish, came…
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