23 Facts About Bret Stephens

1. Bret Stephens declined a request from TheDC to explain the numerous errors in his column.

2. Bret Stephens began working as a columnist at The New York Times in late April 2017.

3. Bret Stephens is a former deputy editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal and member of the paper's editorial board.

4. Bret Stephens tweeted back to Walsh, "The column is about the tragic ubiquity of anti-Semitism in the Arab world.

5. Bret Stephens has compared Trump to the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

6. Bret Stephens was a consistent critic of President Barack Obama, whom he charged with abdicating America's responsibility to lead the international community.

7. Bret Stephens wrote from a conservative perspective, covering regions from South Asia to Russia to China, and addressing topics like safeguarding democracy, defending Israel and preserving America's leading role in foreign affairs.

8. In 2004, Bret Stephens explained at an event held by the UJA-Federation of Greater Toronto that he moved on from the Journal because he believed Israel was getting an unfair hearing in the press.

9. Bret Stephens was raised in Mexico City and educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics.

10. Bret Stephens took the helm of The Jerusalem Post at age 28.

11. Bret Stephens has drawn criticism for his statements about the Arab world and for columns seeming to deny human-caused climate change.

12. Bret Stephens maintains an Equal Weight rating on Bottomline Technologies but lowers the target by a dollar to $64.

13. Bret Stephens is digging himself deeper into the climate hole.

14. Bret Stephens has caused controversy for his remarks referring to an Egyptian athlete's refusal to shake his Israeli Olympic opponent's hand as "the disease of the Arab mind.

15. Bret Stephens was a "prominent voice" among the media advocates for the start of the 2003 Iraq War, for instance writing in a 2002 column that, unless checked, Iraq was likely to become the first nuclear power in the Arab world.

16. Bret Stephens has made several short videos for the conservative education website Prager University.

17. Bret Stephens authored the book America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, released in November 2014.

18. Bret Stephens won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary recognizing his 2012 columns for the Journal for "incisive columns on US foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist.

19. Bret Stephens began his career at The Wall Street Journal as an op-ed editor in New York.

20. Bret Stephens began working as a contributing columnist at The New York Times in late April 2017 and as a senior political contributor for NBC News in June 2017.

21. Bret Stephens is, gulp, saying, "For once, I'm grateful for Trump.

22. Bret Stephens has been a critic of Trump, but on Thursday morning offered a defense of the.

23. Bret Stephens is a regular columnist for The New York Times.