James Bennet, Controversial NYT Opinion Editor, Opens Up

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James Bennet has plenty of critics.The editor of The New York Times Opinion section, after Trump was elected, Bennet did something that incensed many Times readers: He hired conservatives. Perhaps most notably, Bennet brought on Bret Stephens, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who used his first column to excoriate climate change activists and others who treat climate change deniers (a term I suspect Stephens would take issue with) "as imbeciles and deplorables.