It doesn’t give me great pleasure to criticize a former colleague, but New York Times columnist Bret Stephens will just not stop writing dogshit pieces excusing himself for supporting something that Donald Trump does, and letting you know that it pains him very much to do so. Today, he’s turned his attention to Brett…
Another day, another media horror: the New York Times’ worst columnist, Bari Weiss, announced on Wednesday that she’s got a book deal.
What’s that—a journalism lesson? From Bret Stephens? Yes, please, my anticipation could not be any more sincere!
If you are a racist—or, far more likely, a Very Nice Person who just tolerates and enables racism through inaction—there is absolutely nothing you love more than an opportunity for a good old false equivalence. And today is Bret Stephens’ lucky day!
This morning, Bret Stephens, the New York Times opinion columnist who believes that climate change isn’t real and that anyone who isn’t a white man is a self-victimizing liar, appeared on MSNBC to discuss the Guardian’s recent report about Sean Hannity and his formerly secret $90 million real estate holdings. (Hannity …
On Tuesday morning, HuffPost published a leaked transcript of a Q&A that New York Times Opinion Page Editor James Bennet held with the paper’s employees in December. It’s perhaps the clearest distillation yet of what Bennet actually thinks.
Earlier this month, HuffPost published the transcript of a New York Times Slack conversation in which staffers criticized a tweet from opinion editor Bari Weiss incorrectly suggesting that American figure skater Mirai Nagasu is an immigrant. The internal pushback to Weiss combined exasperation toward the Times opinion…
Look, sometimes you tweet bad tweets. (Who among us, etc.) Usually, the best response when this happens is to listen to what people are saying, take the criticism in stride, and apologize. The worst response is to double down, which is exactly what The New York Times has been doing—and it’s causing a full-fledged…
Hello, my name is Liberal America, here to engage you in dialogue. Let’s stipulate, before we begin: College kids are dumb. Okay? Can we move on to Everything Else In The World, now?
Liz Spayd, the bad New York Times public editor, has taken it upon herself to tackle the paper’s latest public relations crisis: the work of new conservative op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. Surprisingly, the woman best known for such probing inquiries as “Are the sports pages too interesting?” has come up somewhat…
This week, the New York Times—a paper which has seen subscriptions soar as The Resistance seeks its media savior—hired Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, as its newest opinion columnist. Allow us to offer you a broad sample of his past work.
