News & Events 2007-2008

Wall Street Journal Writer Speaks at Skeptics

Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal was the featured speaker at the Society of Skeptics lecture series program on September 24. Dr. Marty Miller, director of the Skeptics program, states, “Bret is a sharp and engaging columnist. His political viewpoint ran directly counter to that of Maher Bitar, the Palestinian speakers featured at Skeptics last spring.”

Stephens discussed his June 26 column, “Who Killed Palestine?” A member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, Stephens joined the newspaper in New York in 1998 as a features editor and moved to Brussels the following year to work as an editorial writer for the paper’s European edition. In 2002, Stephens, then 28, became editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, where he was responsible for its news, editorial, electronic and international divisions, and where he also wrote a weekly column. He returned to his present position in late 2004 and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum the following year.

Stephens was raised in Mexico City and educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He lives with his family in New York City.

A full listing of the fall term Skeptics programs is available here.

Updated 9/25/07

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