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The line to Bret Stephens’s house to tell his family that he’s a bedbug and a terrible columnist would look like the cars pulling up to Ray Kinsella’s farm at the end of FIELD OF DREAMS. Bret could be there playing catch with a ghostly relative. I’d tell the ghost the same. 
But seriously, all @BretStephensNYT managed to accomplish in this remarkable display of weakness is that he became the actual internet bully that he was complaining about. If the @nytimes sanctioned Jonathan Weisman for how he behaved, they have to consider being consistent here.
Did Bret Stephens also quit email? Because that is what led to his problems—not Twitter. And in that respect, he has no one to blame but himself. He took no personal responsibility whatsoever, unsurprisingly. He should still face significant consequences for abusing his position.
“I’d be happy to have a dialogue, not just about the tenor of Twitter comments but also about power and how to appropriately use it,” said @davekarpf, the professor whom Stephens targeted. “But I assume he won’t want to talk. He ought to be embarrassed.” wapo.st/327NVNO
