The 2017 Abner & Roslyn Goldstine Scholar-in-Residence Lecture Series Presents: Bret Stephens, Columnist, The New York Times. Bret Stephens joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2017. Mr. Stephens came to the Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently Deputy Editorial-Page Editor and, for 11 years, Foreign Affairs Columnist.