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Ben Stein

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
by | Jun 14, 2026

“Wine maketh merry and a feast is made for laughter, but money answereth all things.” This thought runs through my…

by | Jun 11, 2026

Roughly 41 years ago, my dear friend, Michael Chinich, a kindred spirit if there ever was one, a man whom…

by | Jun 8, 2026

For almost all of my life, I have suffered from colitis. This is what you think it is: gut pain…

by | May 24, 2026

Saturday It’s a perfect day today here in L.A. Temperatures in the mid 70s. Blue skies, mild, encouraging breeze coming…

by | May 3, 2026

By an astonishing stroke of luck, my goddess wife, Alex, insisted about thirty years ago that we live in Beverly…

by | Apr 19, 2026

In late 1960, I started to drink alcohol in large amounts. I was probably in tenth grade at Montgomery Blair…

by | Apr 10, 2026

A few days ago, I was jolted by the radio news that Israel, the USA, and Iran were entering a…

by | Mar 30, 2026

Fear is spreading across the globe — at least my globe. First, now it’s incontrovertible: the hope that we were…

by | Mar 24, 2026

These are the times that try men’s souls. The light of man’s souls, the United States of America, is seeking…

by | Mar 14, 2026

In 1953, my parents, Herbert and Mildred Stein, my sister, Rachel Judith Stein, about three years my senior, and I…

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