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'''Bret Louis Stephens''' (born November 21, 1973) is an American journalist who won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for commentary in 2013.<ref name=pulitzer/> He works for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' as the foreign-affairs columnist and the deputy editorial page editor and is responsible for the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. Stephens will begin working as a columnist at [[The New York Times|''The New York Times'']] in early May 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/852269668047966208|title=Michael Calderone on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en}}</ref> From 2002 to 2004, he was editor in chief of ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/AboutUs&cid=1123495332668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116002454/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/AboutUs&cid=1123495332668|dead-url=yes|archive-date=November 16, 2008|title=About Us |accessdate=July 2, 2008 |newspaper=''The Jerusalem Post''}}</ref>
'''Bret Louis Stephens''' (born November 21, 1973) is an American journalist who won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for commentary in 2013.<ref name=pulitzer/> He works for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' as the foreign-affairs columnist and the deputy editorial page editor and is responsible for the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. Stephens will begin working as a columnist at [[The New York Times|''The New York Times'']] in early May 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/852269668047966208|title=Michael Calderone on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en}}</ref> From 2002 to 2004, he was editor in chief of ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/AboutUs&cid=1123495332668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116002454/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/AboutUs&cid=1123495332668|dead-url=yes|archive-date=November 16, 2008|title=About Us |accessdate=July 2, 2008 |newspaper=''The Jerusalem Post''}}</ref>


He is known for being part of the [[Stop Trump movement|right-wing opposition]] to [[Donald Trump]],<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/wsjs-bret-stephens-trump-must-lose-so-badly-that-the-gop-voters-learn-their-lesson/|title=WSJ‘s Bret Stephens: Trump Must Lose So Badly That the GOP Voters ‘Learn Their Lesson’|work=Mediaite|date=May 29, 2016|first=Sam|last=Reisman|quote=Stephens has been one of Trump’s most outspoken conservative critics}}</ref>
He is known for being part of the [[Stop Trump movement|right-wing opposition]] to [[Donald Trump]],<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/wsjs-bret-stephens-trump-must-lose-so-badly-that-the-gop-voters-learn-their-lesson/|title=WSJ‘s Bret Stephens: Trump Must Lose So Badly That the GOP Voters ‘Learn Their Lesson’|work=Mediaite|date=May 29, 2016|first=Sam|last=Reisman|quote=Stephens has been one of Trump’s most outspoken conservative critics}}</ref> and for his [[climate change denial]].<ref>{{citation|title=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|magazine=[[Physics Today]]|publisher=[[American Institute of Physics]]|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.4.2441/full/|date=April 17, 2013|first=Steven T.|last=Corneliussen}}.</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==

Revision as of 20:51, 15 April 2017

Bret Stephens
Born
Bret Louis Stephens

(1973-11-21) November 21, 1973 (age 50)
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A. University of Chicago, M.A. London School of Economics
OccupationJournalist
Known forEditor in chief of The Jerusalem Post
SpouseCorinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
Children3
Parent(s)Xenia and Charles J. Stephens

Bret Louis Stephens (born November 21, 1973) is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013.[1] He works for The Wall Street Journal as the foreign-affairs columnist and the deputy editorial page editor and is responsible for the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. Stephens will begin working as a columnist at The New York Times in early May 2017.[2] From 2002 to 2004, he was editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post.[3]

He is known for being part of the right-wing opposition to Donald Trump,[4] and for his climate change denial.[5]

Early life and education

Stephens was born in New York City,[6] the son of Xenia and Charles J. Stephens, a former vice president of General Products, a chemical company in Mexico.[7][8] His parents were both secular Jews. His paternal grandfather had changed the family surname from Ehrlich to Stephens (after poet James Stephens).[9] He was raised in Mexico City, where his father was born and worked. In his adolescence, he attended boarding school at Middlesex School in Massachusetts. Stephens received an undergraduate degree in political philosophy from the University of Chicago before earning a master's degree in comparative politics[10] at the London School of Economics.

Career

Stephens began his career at The Wall Street Journal as an op-ed editor in New York. He later worked as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe, in Brussels.[11]

2000s

In 2006, he took over the "Global View" column after George Melloan's retirement. In 2009, he was named deputy editorial page editor after the retirement of Melanie Kirkpatrick.

From 2002 to 2004, he was editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post.[12] He won the 2008 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism and the 2010 Bastiat Prize.[13] In 2005, Stephens was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.[14] He is also a frequent contributor to Commentary magazine.[15]

2010s

Stephens won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary recognizing his 2012 columns for the Journal for "incisive columns on U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist."[1]

Stephens authored the book America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, released in November 2014.[16] The book presents the case that the U.S. has been retreating from its role as the "world's policeman" in recent decades, which will lead to ever greater world problems.

Stephens has made several short videos for the conservative education website Prager University. His lessons focus on American foreign policy in the Middle East.[17]

Personal life

He is married to Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a music critic who writes for The New York Times. The couple has three children and lives in New York City.[18][19]

Bibliography

  • America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder (November 2014), ISBN 978-1591846628

References

  1. ^ a b "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Commentary". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 17, 2013. With short biography and reprints of ten works (WSJ articles January 24 to December 11, 2012).
  2. ^ "Michael Calderone on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  3. ^ "About Us". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on November 16, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Reisman, Sam (May 29, 2016), "WSJ's Bret Stephens: Trump Must Lose So Badly That the GOP Voters 'Learn Their Lesson'", Mediaite, Stephens has been one of Trump's most outspoken conservative critics
  5. ^ 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", Physics Today, American Institute of Physics.
  6. ^ Born in New York City, per Bret Stephens, interviewed on C-SPAN2's BookTV program, After Words, 1-17-2015. "After Words: Bret Stephens, author of America in Retreat, interviewed by Bob Minzesheimer - Book TV". Retrieved March 24, 2015. ...First of all I was born in New York and wondering why Wikipedia 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...
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2014-12-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Weddings; Pamela Paul, Bret Stephens". The New York Times. September 20, 1998.
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-01-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ "Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Appoints Key Editors for Its International Editions". Global News Wire. August 12, 2009.
  11. ^ [1]
  12. ^ [2]
  13. ^ [3]
  14. ^ [4]
  15. ^ "Bret Stephens: Deputy editor, editorial page, The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 2, 2008. With some archive of WSJ articles.
  16. ^ [5]
  17. ^ https://www.prageru.com/courses/foreign-affairs/iran-and-bomb
  18. ^ Stephens, Bret (June 26, 2009). "Being Bret Stephens – Or Not". The Wall Street Journal.
  19. ^ da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna (March 20, 2012). "Prelude and Fugue" Archived November 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Tablet: A new read on Jewish life.

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