Ben Stein’s Diary
Ben Stein’s Diary
by | May 22, 2020

Thursday It is a perfect morning here in Beverly Hills. Clear cobalt blue skies. Lush palm trees and banana leaf plants. An emerald green lawn. Hollyhocks. Roses. Confederate star jasmine, which not only looks decadently alluring but smells magnificently of…

by | May 12, 2020

Monday Another day in the aspic of the shutdown. For some reason, there was no shutdown at all in Malibu yesterday. The beaches were open, and there was hideous traffic all along the Pacific Coast Highway from Pepperdine to Santa…

by | May 10, 2020

You have to give it to the enemies of the Constitution. They are clever as hell and they never stop trying. In the three-plus years of the Trump administration, the Left has made up the most outlandish, insane allegations against…

by | May 9, 2020

Friday The shutdown goes on and on. But to tell the truth, I am so depressed by it that it hardly matters anymore. Outside the walls of my house in Beverly Hills, it’s just like “1984.” As some smart person…

by | May 2, 2020

Friday Did you know that I, your humble servant, am the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against our handsome governor, Gavin Newsom, asking a court to say that he exceeded his powers under the California constitution and the U.S. Constitution…

by | Apr 27, 2020

Sunday Yay! The heat wave is over!!! This is big news because the air conditioner in my office is broken. It’s a room air conditioner, and I have had the devil’s own time getting it fixed. The room has immense…

by | Apr 24, 2020

April 23, 2020 The days of our lives. Yesterday I went to see my favorite doctor to get some intestinal meds. He was ebullient. He said he had just been at a teleconference where a researcher for a big biotech…

by | Apr 22, 2020

April 21, 2020 Yom Hashoah. The day of remembrance for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust by the Nazis and their many friends. How horrible their lives and deaths were. When I see them lined up to be…

by | Apr 15, 2020

Tuesday I spent most of yesterday afternoon lying on a chaise looking out at my light-blue pool and the deep green golf course behind it and the mountains behind the greens and fairways. It’s mid-April and the mountains still have…

by | Apr 10, 2020

Thursday It’s raining like a maniac, and the rain is bitterly cold. The air is bitterly cold. By that I mean it’s in the low 50s. Fifty-one right now. That’s bitterly cold for Beverly Hills. Things are getting very tense…

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