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I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day.
by David Karpf
August 27, 2019

Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy. He knows this. I know this. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has a regular op-ed column in the New York Times. I am just some professor. I’ve written two books, but unless you are professionally involved with digital politics, you probably have never heard of me. So I was surprised to receive an email from Bret Stephens last night. The subject line read “From Bret Stephens, New York Times.”…Stephens had found a tweet that I had written earlier that afternoon. READ MORE