Bret Stephens teaches college grads to argue!
b'Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation immediately following his address at the University of Chicago\\u2019s Class Day, where there was an organized \\u2014 and ultimately unsuccessful \\u2014 effort against his speech. \\n\\nWe discuss his address, the effort against him and lessons learned. Bret also recently returned from a mission to rescue 111 Ethiopian Jews, part of a multi-decade effort to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel to become Israeli citizens, the history of which he unpacks at the end of our conversation. \\n\\nBret came to The New York Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor and, for 11 years, a foreign affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. And prior to working in Israel, he was based in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal. Today, Bret is also the editor-in-chief of Sapir Journal.\\n\\nBret was raised in Mexico City, earned his BA at the University of Chicago and his Masters at the London School of Economics.\\n\\nItems discussed in this episode:\\nSapir Journal \\u2014 https://sapirjournal.org/\\n\\u201cThe Herd of Independent Minds: Has the Avant-Garde Its Own Mass Culture\\u201d \\u2014 https://www.commentary.org/articles/harold-rosenberg-2/the-herd-of-independent-mindshas-the-avant-garde-its-own-mass-culture/\\nBret Stephens \\u2014 \\u201cGo Forth and Argue\\u201d \\u2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/opinion/free-speech-campus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\\nBret Stephens \\u2014 \\u201cIsrael\\u2019s Unfinished Exodus Story\\u201d \\u2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/opinion/ethiopian-jews-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\\n\\u201cSideways\\u201d \\u2014 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375063/\\n\\u201cThe Lives of Others\\u201d \\u2014 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/'