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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 | May 8, 2022

It’s Mother’s Day, 5/8/2022. To say the subject of motherhood is fraught in my life would be a gigantic understatement….

by | May 2, 2022

Monday A bleak day. About 22 years ago, thanks to the kindness of my friend Andrew Golder, I was made…

by | May 1, 2022

Sunday — May 1, 2022 I slept late today, partly because I was in a sort of shock. I had…

by | Apr 30, 2022

Friday I awakened and looked out my window. A hummingbird was flying around facing me and a jacaranda and overlooking…

by | Apr 25, 2022

Monday This is a powerful day in the calendar, the emotional calendar, of Ben Stein. For many years now, Ivan…

by | Apr 23, 2022

Saturday I really am blessed. Day after day, the weather here in L.A. is fabulously beautiful. I am not sure…

by | Apr 21, 2022

Thursday A few observations for you, my dear friends. We have just had some golden, uniquely perfect moments in the…

by | Apr 20, 2022

Wednesday What the heck is going on? In the incredibly brave Ukrainian people we have a nation which will fight…

by | Apr 10, 2022

Friday Long ago and far away, when I was a third-year student at Yale Law School, one of my closest…

by | Apr 7, 2022

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