It’s horrible but true. Two days ago I was 80 years old. That’s OLD and the next step is eternity. I will write more about this in the near future but for now, just a few thoughts: First, I am…
Long ago and far away, when I was a student at Columbia, we boys wore Oxford cloth shirts, silk ties, and we shaved, washed our hair, and showed up in class with our teeth brushed and our breath fresh and…
From Ben Stein 602 N. Crescent Drive Beverly Hills, Ca. 90210 8/20/24 To: Mr. Vivek Sankaran CEO – Albertsons Companies 250 East Parker Blvd. Boise, Idaho 83706 Dear Mr. Sankaran: My name is Ben Stein. I am a lawyer, economist,…
It has long been a big part of the American Dream to own your own home, whether a single-family bungalow or a condo or a co-op. That has become even more urgent since inflation became the bugaboo of our lives…
Unlike most of the dramas you see on TV these days, this was not written in a “writers’ room” at a studio in Hollywood or Burbank. This was written down somewhere in the United States of America. About two months…
I will soon be 80 years old. I’m tired. But I love my readers. They keep me alive. I have been writing regularly since I was editor of Silver Chips, the newspaper of my glorious high school, Montgomery Blair. As…
The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady By Heath Hardage Lee (St. Martin’s Press/416 pages/$32) Patricia Ryan Nixon was, as far as I have ever been able to tell, pretty much flawless. She…
In July 1976, a few days after I moved to Los Angeles, I was rear-ended while I was stationary on Sunset at the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights. My best friends on earth, Al and Sally Burton, recommended that…
President Trump is a great man, and what’s more, a brave man. I would not ordinarily call him a political philosopher of a high order, but now I think he is. He spoke in extremely broad terms Thursday night about…
