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WSJ Editor Defiant In Face Of ‘Political Censors’ Enraged At Op-Ed Urging Jill Biden To Drop ‘Dr.’

Jon Brown
WSJ Editor Defiant In Face Of ‘Political Censors’ Enraged At Op-Ed Urging Jill Biden To Drop ‘Dr.’
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The editor of the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal hit back against those who took issue with an op-ed the paper published last week urging Jill Biden to the drop her “Dr.” honorific because she is not a medical doctor.

In a Sunday op-ed titled “The Biden Team Strikes Back,” editorial director Paul A. Gigot claimed the Biden team’s response to the controversial op-ed by Joseph Epstein, who served as editor of the magazine The American Scholar from 1975 to 1997, was “clearly a political strategy.”

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