Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an Opinion columnist for The New York Times and the founding editor of SAPIR, a new quarterly journal dedicated to issues of Jewish concern. Prior to joining the Times in 2017, Mr. Stephens had been with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor in charge of international opinion and, for 11 years, the paper’s principal foreign-affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. At the Post, he oversaw the paper’s news, editorial, digital and international operations and also wrote a weekly column. He has reported from around the world and interviewed scores of world leaders.
Mr. Stephens is the author of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, released in November 2014. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including three honorary doctorates, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2022, the government of Russia banned him for life from visiting that country.
He was raised in Mexico City and holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an MSc. from the London School of Economics. He and his wife, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a music critic and entrepreneur, live near New York City and have three children.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an Opinion columnist for The New York Times and the founding editor of SAPIR, a new quarterly journal dedicated to issues of Jewish concern. Prior to joining the Times in 2017, Mr. Stephens had been with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor in charge of international opinion and, for 11 years, the paper’s principal foreign-affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. At the Post, he oversaw the paper’s news, editorial, digital and international operations and also wrote a weekly column. He has reported from around the world and interviewed scores of world leaders.
Mr. Stephens is the author of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, released in November 2014. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including three honorary doctorates, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2022, the government of Russia banned him for life from visiting that country.
He was raised in Mexico City and holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an MSc. from the London School of Economics. He and his wife, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a music critic and entrepreneur, live near New York City and have three children.