Ben Stein

WednesdayIn the uber great masterpiece foretelling our time, the protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth. His job…

A few humble thoughts on race, violence, and South Carolina. The crimes of Dylann Roof were spectacularly horrible. To murder…

June 23, 1968 was fantastically hot, as is usual for D.C. in the summer. I was living in an adorable…

SundayIt is hot here in Beverly Hills. I flew in from Dulles last night on Virgin America. It is a…

What I don’t understand about my wife is how anyone in a world of such evil and selfishness can be…

I learned about the killings in Charleston Thursday as I was driving around the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay,…

Night after night, I see on the news horror stories about immigrants seeking to leave Nigeria, Eritrea, Somalia, Chad, Niger,…

A few days ago, a Mr. Evan Thomas had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal attempting to compare Mrs….

Thursday Last night, I was in Malibu filing and writing checks to charities and watering my pitiful jacarandas, which just…

There is a brilliant line in an early Bruce Springsteen song that goes something like this: “The poets down here…