Ben Stein’s Diary
Ben Stein’s Diary
by | Jul 4, 2021

July 4, 2021 A perfect, blue sky, white fleecy clouds day over my swimming pool here in Beverly Hills. My wife is lying in her bed, fast asleep. I am remembering a day 56 years ago in Washington, D.C. On…

by | Jun 23, 2021

It had to happen. It is almost like an Econ 101 exam question: What happens if you take an economy already in strong upsurge and add to it by pumping trillions — not billions, trillions — of borrowed dollars into…

by | Jun 6, 2021

June 6, 2021 A beautiful, clear, breezy day here in Beverly Hills. It’s the 77th anniversary of D-Day, a staggeringly important day in world history. The Germans were already comprehensively beaten by the Red Army, probably the most capable, lethal…

by | Jun 1, 2021

In the 20th century, three of the most horrifying events in mankind’s history took place: The genocide by the Nazis against the Jews, in which six million totally innocent Jews were cruelly tortured and murdered out of sheer evil, racism,…

by | May 20, 2021

Wednesday An upsetting afternoon. I was quietly reading the news on my phone about a group of about 20 Palestinian terrorists, young people in their 20s, in a caravan of SUVs flying Palestinian flags. They pulled up in front of…

by | Apr 26, 2021

Saturday Off to LAX in a hulking, huge van to fly to Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s my usual entourage for long trips: My wifey, who has been ill and disabled for years with lung problems but who is bound and…

by | Apr 13, 2021

President Joseph Biden has some extremely smart men and women advising him on economic issues. The only one I knew even the slightest little bit personally is Janet Yellen, the secretary of the Treasury. Long ago, when I worked for…

by | Mar 31, 2021

I used to work in an office at the Old Executive Office Building right next to the White House. In the next office was a man I knew nothing of named E. Howard Hunt. In and out of his office…

by | Mar 15, 2021

Sunday Here I am down at our house in Rancho Mirage. My fabulous driver and colleague, Jeff, drove me down here in my fabulous Audi S8. Riding in it is like riding in a cloud. I really cannot adequately praise…

by | Mar 13, 2021

Friday Let me be perfectly clear about this: If Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York purposefully put elderly men and women infected with COVID-19 into crowded nursing homes and if he had any idea of how lethal a move that…

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