Ben Stein’s Diary
Ben Stein’s Diary
by | Nov 28, 2021

Sunday Boo-hoo. Three days ago, I turned 77. That’s OLD. I keep trying to make a list of what I have learned, and here are a few of the key items I have soaked up. It is great to be…

by | Nov 12, 2021

Friday Finally, a result from Mr. Durham. That nonsense supposedly coming from KGB sources in 2017 smearing Donald Trump really came from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. With her pals at the FBI and in other places, she went to the FISA…

by | Nov 2, 2021

Saturday A glorious day in Rancho Mirage, California. Our house there looked wonderful, as it always does. Floor-to-ceiling windows opening onto our pool and then the golf course. My pal Jeff, who drove us down there in my super car,…

by | Oct 30, 2021

Thursday Last night, as wifey and I were watching Perry Mason reruns from about sixty years ago or more, at about midnight, I got a call from a young man whose father is a close friend. The young man is a…

by | Oct 21, 2021

Here’s a suggestion for thought: Constantly, nonstop, on the social media (really should be called the “anti-social media”) there are endless stories about how famous geniuses like Al Sharpton and Hillary Clinton have accused the United States of America of…

by | Oct 4, 2021

Monday This country has real problems and they start at the top: President “Joe” Biden is demanding Congress pass a $3.5 trillion dollar spending bill. It is a mental impossibility that anyone in Congress has read this bill. It is…

by | Sep 30, 2021

I, your humble servant, really hate to submit this to the waiting world, but, alas, it’s true and it’s important. Since school in person reopened in our beloved Los Angeles, I have been deluged with calls from parents of young…

by | Sep 21, 2021

Monday A staggering day. Just stunning. I have been at my co-op at the Watergate for a few days. It’s an apartment that no one deserves. How I have it, I do not recall, but I have it. It’s peaceful…

by | Sep 20, 2021

Morning at my fabulous apartment at the Watergate. It’s foggy outside. But inside it’s glorious. I’ll be selling it soon. I almost never use it. The maintenance fees are staggering. The pandemic has pretty much shut down the whirl of…

by | Sep 18, 2021

Friday Here I am in Washington, my hometown. The most beautiful city in the world. Just a super city of broad boulevards, a magnificent grassy Mall, spectacular neoclassical buildings and monuments, the Athens of our era. It was conceived, planned,…

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