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BEN STEIN’S DIARY Breeding, Eating, and Killing On Netflix and other great revolutions wrought by man. by Ben Stein Lately I have been watching Netflix as fast as my old eyes will let...

Dear Diary (September 2017)

Dear Diary It was a Saturday morning in 1973 and I was sitting, wildly hung over, on a heavily worn prewar deep green easy chair my parents had given me to help furnish the tiny apartment I rented...

A Nightmare Presidency (April 2014)

Ben Steins Diary by BENJAMIN J. STEIN A Nightmare Presidency Monday This is a bad morning. I was greeted by a headline in the New York Times that said Defense Secretary "Chuck Mullet" Hagel was...

Ben Stein's Diary (August 2003)

TUESDAY Malibu T here is a great scene in "Richard II" in which the imprisoned monarch paces in a cell. He has only one companion, a spider. He is thinking of how he got into that mess of...

Ben Stein's Diary (June 2003)

BEN STEIN'S DIARY MONDAY St. Cloud, Minnesota I am here because I am speaking at St. Cloud State University tomorrow. I flew in via a very circuitous route, or maybe I should just say a very long...

Ben Stein's Diary (March 2003)

H ere I am watching the "peace" demonstrators all around the world, and I am once again struck by one of the main observations of my life. I call it "political realism." Here is how it goes. It says...

Ben Stein's Diary (January 2003)

brave firemen and firewomen. I went out to dinner at Morton's because I was not allowed by the Highway Patrol out to the house in Malibu anyway, but I could not concentrate. Barbara Walters was...

Ben Stein's Diary (November 2002)

BEN STEIN'S DIARY THURSDAY Beverly Hills Here it is, late August, early evening. Earlier today I asked Tommy if he wanted to go look at cars. He turned fifteen a few days ago and is eager to get...

Ben Stein's Diary (September 2002)

BEN STEIN'S DIARY SUNDAY Beverly Hills It is summer here in Southern California. The days are cookie-cutter perfect week after week. Balmy skies, no humidity, afternoon breezes, cool nights. The...

Ben Stein's Diary (July 2002)

BEN STEIN'S DIARY of my wife, with clean, straight features. We talked for a long time about how lonely she was and how she could feel her husband's presence in her house after his death. I found...

Ben Stein's Diary (May 2002)

BEN STEIN'S DIARY SATURDAY Beverly Hills The worst night of my life as far as fear and pain go. I have been traveling a great deal lately and have been feeling as tired as a middle-aged man who...

Hollywood Days, Hollywood Nights (February 1989)

which is the assumption that modernist artists are unimpeachable cultural heroes. Second, even among those convinced of the movement's accomplishments, there is a growing weariness with the endless...

Her Only Sin (June 1986)

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Boasting (February 1983)

modesty and practical restraint, and affords a needed corrective to the rarefied and open-textured quality of much of federal law. Perhaps most important of all, when presiding over cases within the...

Second Wife City (November 1982)

"protrude from their sockets as if they are about to fall out." Although the UN report was not made public during the critical special session on disarmament, Rear Admiral Jonathan Howe,...

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