He’s tweeted that “the right to offend is the most precious right. Without it, free speech is meaningless.”33 He’s lamented the way millennials exact “professional destruction” as the price for “emotional upset.”34 But then the New York Times got a bedbug infestation, and George Washington University professor Dave Karpf sent a little-noticed tweet joking that “The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens.”35 Furious, the columnist sent an angry email to Karpf, cc’ing his provost, and sent a separate email to the director of GWU’s School of Media and Public Affairs.36 It was the
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