Bret Stephens

The NYT columnist on Hamas, World War III and his weekly dialogue with Gail Collins.

Bret Stephens is a New York Times columnist and co-author of the very popular column “The Conversation,” which began in 2014 as a dialogue between him and Gail Collins, also a New York Times columnist. He has been with the New York Times since 2017. He was formerly editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post (2002-2004) and is now editor-in-chief of Sapir: A Journal of Jewish Conversations.

Also in his career were two stints at the Wall Street Journal: in 1998 he was an op-ed editor; in 2004 he rejoined the publication. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013. In 2014, Bret Stephens published “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder.”

In April 2017, Stephens moved to the New York Times as a columnist, the position he occupies today. As a Times columnist, Stephens has characterized himself as center right (maybe neoconservative) and has argued for Israel, for Ukraine, against Donald Trump, and against cancel culture.

Bret Stephens is a graduate of the University of Chicago and attended the London School of Economics. Beyond the Pulitzer Prize, Bret Stephens has received numerous journalistic honors and is often a judge for choosing the best journalism in America.