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Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens

The Age

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Trump should present Iran with a choice – and a dare

The end of Bashar al-Assad’s wretched regime in Syria unlocks many doors for the United States across Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Iran.

18.12.2024 8

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The CEO, not the shooter, is the real working-class hero

Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot in New York, is a model for how a talented, determined man from humble roots can rise to the top of corporate...

16.12.2024 6

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

A disgraceful presidential pardon right out of the MAGA ‘swamp’

What a degrading finale for Joe Biden’s feeble, forgettable, frequently foolish presidency.

03.12.2024 10

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The three big reasons behind Harris’ humiliating defeat

The politics of today’s left is heavy on social engineering according to group identity. It also, increasingly, stands for the forcible imposition...

07.11.2024 20

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Seven tips for the new US president, whoever wins

Whether it’s Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, these pieces of advice will serve either candidate equally well.

06.11.2024 10

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Democrats name-calling will be to blame if Trump wins

The main reason will be the way in which leading liberal voices in government, academia and media practice politics today.

25.10.2024 10

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

What if one of Iran’s missiles was a nuclear warhead? That possibility isn’t far off

Long before he met with his overdue death last week, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, offered a theological explanation for why Israel had...

02.10.2024 6

WA Today

Bret Stephens

What if one of Iran’s missiles was a nuclear warhead? That possibility isn’t far off

Long before he met with his overdue death last week, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, offered a theological explanation for why Israel had...

02.10.2024 7

The Age

Bret Stephens

What if one of Iran’s missiles was a nuclear warhead? That possibility isn’t far off

Long before he met with his overdue death last week, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, offered a theological explanation for why Israel had...

02.10.2024 7

Brisbane Times

Bret Stephens

What if one of Iran’s missiles was a nuclear warhead? That possibility isn’t far off

Long before he met with his overdue death last week, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, offered a theological explanation for why Israel had...

02.10.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bret Stephens

Why Hezbollah is everyone’s problem

The world is now in the opening stages of yet another contest between the free and unfree. It’s a conflict reaching far and wide, and will last for...

25.09.2024 10

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The 5 things university students should be protesting about

Here are some alternative focal points for outrage and protest, particularly for morally energetic university students.

03.09.2024 20

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

All of Israel’s leaders need to be replaced, says former Israeli PM

After 10 months of grinding war, Israel has achieved none of its major objectives, says Naftali Bennett, who could be planning a return to the...

14.08.2024 6

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The world should realise Israel is fighting five wars

The Jewish state’s conflicts are more about ideas than they are about geography.

02.08.2024 8

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Democrats will repent at leisure on Harris

The party is as blind to Kamala Harris’ weaknesses as they were to Joe Biden’s. Her record is one of mediocrity.

26.07.2024 8

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

What would a better Israeli prime minister do?

Israel needs to offer a postwar vision for Gaza and articulate the real stakes in this war – one battle in the struggle between the free and unfree...

03.07.2024 5

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Who’s in more trouble: Israel or Iran?

Middle East conflict is making Iran’s clerical regime seem ever more fragile, and Israel’s sense of nationhood even stronger.

24.05.2024 30

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

What a ‘free Palestine’ means in practice

The campus protesters are not the first generation of Western activists who have championed movements that promised liberation in theory and misery...

17.05.2024 20

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

What it means to be (visibly) Jewish in the Ivy League

Behaviour that would be scandalous if aimed at other minorities is treated as understandable or even commendable when directed at Jews.

24.04.2024 50

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Why Netanyahu must go

Parliamentary democracies that find themselves saddled with bad leaders in moments of national emergency do well when they get rid of those leaders.

10.04.2024 10

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The real meaning of Gaza’s tunnels

Gaza is not an open air prison, but a vast fortress cynically created by Hamas. That is why the war is a catastrophe for those who have to live...

29.01.2024 20

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The genocide charge against Israel is a moral obscenity

In war, the killing ends when one side stops fighting. In a genocide, that’s when the killing begins.

19.01.2024 50

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

The case for Trump – by someone who wants him to lose

You can’t defeat a political opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Trump got three big things right — or at least more...

14.01.2024 50

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Antisemitism: A guide for the perplexed

It isn’t just Jews in the cross-hairs of antisemites. It’s freedom, education and human dignity.

17.12.2023 40

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

Campus antisemitism, free speech and double standards

Colleges have discovered the virtues of free speech only now, when the speech in question hurts Jews.

10.12.2023 50

Financial Review

Bret Stephens

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