Uproar Over Bret Stephens Climate Column Underscores Rigidity of Thought Among LiberalsAlexander Nazaryan
Newsweek
May 1, 2017
In the latest sign of what some see as growing rigidity of thought among American liberals, new New York Times columnist Bret Stephens has been skewered online by readers of the paper for his first column. The subject of that column was a growing rigidity of thought among American liberals.
Stephens arrives at the Times from The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for “incisive columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist.”
Many on the political left objected to the hire, with some noting that the Times had hired another white male columnist when it still had no women of color in its op-ed ranks. Others pointed out that Stephens, who is Jewish, was harshly critical of the Arab world. Stephens had also suggested that the outcry over campus rape was overblown.
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Times subscribers are fleeing in wake of climate change columnChris Perez
New York Post
May 1, 2017
People are still hating on New York Times columnist Bret Stephens — with a “#ShowYourCancellation” movement growing on social media over the weekend — following his controversial piece on climate change.
“I’ve been a @nytimes loyalist for over 15 years. But hiring a ‘climate agnostic’ has gone too far,” Heather Randell tweeted Sunday. “I’m canceling. #showyourcancellation.”
Beth Holbrook wrote, “Cancelled @nytimes subscription. As a scientist, I take offense at BS opinion pieces misrepresenting scientific facts #ShowYourCancellation.”
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Since David Brooks can no longer be considered conservative, the NYT needed a token conservative Op-Ed columnist, so they hired
Bret Stephens away from the WSJ. Stephens is more of a legitimate conservative, but the NYT decision to hire him just might have had something to do with Stephens'
anti-Trump stance.
Well,
Stephens' first column came out the other day and the stuff hit the fan as the left showed it's predictable intolerance.
