'Racist hypothesis': New York Times corrects Bret Stephens column on 'Jewish Genius’

The New York Times issued an editor’s note to Bret Stephens’s recent column explaining that it removed a section where the writer cited a study that was conducted by someone with white nationalist ties.

Stephens’s Friday column, headlined “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” asked how Ashkenazi Jews were able to contribute so much to society despite there being such a small Jewish population worldwide. Stephens, who briefly left Twitter this fall after being called a “bedbug,” argued that Ashkenazi Jews, or Jewish people who are from Europe, “are, or tend to be, smart.”