Ben Stein’s Diary
Ben Stein’s Diary
by | Sep 13, 2021

Sunday Twenty years and one day ago, Islamic terrorists dealt a weighty blow to the United States of America. In a bloody, vicious attack, they knocked down two immense towers in Manhattan and a part of the Pentagon. Only the…

by | Sep 11, 2021

Friday I am reeling. Last night, as I have been doing for months, I did an episode of “my” internet show, “The World According to Ben Stein.” It’s a panel show lasting about an hour. The producer is my pal,…

by | Aug 23, 2021

Afghanistan. How far up does the treason go? Start with this: At law, if an entity’s conduct entails certain necessary and foreseeable results, then even if that conduct were negligent and not intentional, his or her or its conduct would…

by | Aug 18, 2021

One of my best friends is a highly decorated US Army Staff Sergeant named John Quinones. He fought five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is recently retired and attending college in Texas. We are in daily touch by email…

by | Aug 15, 2021

Tobruk was a vital British base in North Africa behind Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps lines. It was a major thorn in his side and kept him from taking Cairo and Suez for a long time. When it unexpectedly fell to…

by | Aug 14, 2021

Friday The day after the night from hell. Last night, as always, I made dinner for my wife and my caregiver, a super smart Filipino named Glenn. My wife said as I was heading for the kitchen that she was…

by | Jul 31, 2021

I’m back from North Idaho. It was fabulous. I lay in my bed and listened to Warren Buffett’s BNSF trains rumble by at all hours of the day and night. There are more trains than ever and they are fuller…

by | Jul 23, 2021

Thursday Here I am in Sandpoint, Idaho, with my entourage of friends, a staggering number, looking out at Lake Pend Oreille. There are fires burning all around, so the air is hazy. But the atmosphere is not at all smoky…

by | Jul 18, 2021

Saturday July 2021. A month that will live in infamy. If there is such a thing as “history” in the Biden–Orwell–Soros omni-dictatorship, July 2021 will mark the month that the Constitution, the “greatest work ever thrown off by the hand…

by | Jul 11, 2021

Saturday I am back from North Idaho as of 36 hours ago. I already miss it terribly. Just terribly. I spent many happy hours just looking at the lake and listening to the BNSF trains rumble past. My favorite times,…

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