Articles written by Ben CBS Sunday Morning: College Acceptance May, 2010 Bulletproofing your Wallet April, 2010 The American Spectator: Comeback Conservatism May,2010 In and Out of the Snow April, 2010 Bowing to Tehran April, 2010 Same Old Liberals April, 2010 Old Articles Two Days in Washington March, 2010 Stabbing the Constitution March, 2010 On the Brink of Depression March, 2010 Free James O’Keefe February, 2010 Let It Be January, 2010 Welcome to America’s Nightmare January, 2010 I’m Being Tested December, 2009 What a Piece of Work December, 2009 Breaking Fast with Bill Safire November, 2009 The Divinity of Dogs April 4, 2009 What I’ve Been Hearing April 27, 2009 From Coolidge to Harding April 14, 2009 The Funniest Movie Since Ferris Bueller March 25, 2009 Straight A's for AA March 19, 2009 What I’ve Been Hearing April 27, 2009 From Coolidge to Harding April 14, 2009 The Funniest Movie Since Ferris Bueller March 25, 2009 Straight A's for AA March 19, 2009 12/2/2008- Change to Washington? 11/30/2008- Obama’s Team isn’t Exactly a Break with the Past 10/20/2008- Why I’m Still Buying 10/7/2008- How to Ruin the U.S. Economy 9/21/08- CBS Sunday Morning- Regulate Wall Street 9/14/08-CBS Sunday Morning- On Rattling Sabres with Russia 8/30/2008- Obamas Questionable Stimulus Plan 8/19/2008- 9 Tips for Dangerous Times 8/24/2008- Connected, Yes, but Hermetically Sealed 8/10/2008- A Familiar Tax Tune 8/03/08-CBS Sunday Morning- I’m Ben Stein, and I’ve Erred Financially 7/27/2008- Dodging the Worst 7/21/2008- Bear Market Advice 7/09/08- CBS Sunday Morning- A Hot topic for Summer 7/08/2008- Buy Index Funds and Real Estate 6/29/08- New York Times- Why Oil and Wages don’t Mix. 6/20/2008- Simple Investing Truths 6/15/2008 – CBS Sunday Morning - Father’s Day: Time to Accessorize 6/09/2008 – New York Times – When You Weren’t Looking, They Were Working 6/06/2008- Real Estate Realities 5/27/2008- Time to Sniff Out Juicy Dividends 5/25/2008 – CBS Sunday Morning - Stop Whining and Blaming Oil Companies 04/27/2008 – What Did the FLDS Kids do to Deserve This? (Text Version of Video Below) 04/27/2008 – Texas Raid Was Wrong 04/20/2008 – Pet Peeve 03/16/2008 - Elections More Important Than Call Girls 03/02/2008 - A Breathtaking Election 02/10/2008 - Valentine's Day 01/20/2008 - The Recession 01/06/2008 - Politicians and Change 12/16/2007 - What Makes a "Good" Christmas? 11/11/2007 - Ben Stein Thanks Veterans 10/28/2007 - Geopolitics and High Heels 09/02/2007 - Craig Was Lynched Twice 08/19/2007 - "Chill" Over Market Dips 06/10/2007 - Why Should I Care? 05/27/2007 - Blanche Dubois Was Right 03/18/2007 - Economy 02/18/2007 - Rich Get Richer While War Rages On 01/28/2007 - Bush is Not All Bad 12/31/2006 - Remembering President Ford 11/26/2006 - America the Beautiful 10/29/2006 - Bush and Iraq 10/08/2006 - Is Foley That Big A Deal? 3/5/2006 - Retirement and Baby Boomers 01/22/2006 - Oil 12/18/2005 - Christmas 11/27/2005 - Thanksgiving 06/26/2005 - Religion and Politics 05/08/2005 - Mother's Day 01/09/2005 - Wal-Mart 11/28/2004 - Retirement Planning 10/31/2004 - George W. Bush 10/10/2004 - Col. Dale Denman, Jr. 7/4/2004 - The Real Stars Father's Day US Forces in Iraq Yahoo! - How Not to Ruin Your Life: 2008: Bearing the Bad News Irrational Times Call for Rational Measures Homeowners and Investors, Time to Get Real Take the Bait, Ruin Your Investing Life No Pain, No Gain Rethinking the Recession Don't Buy the Panic 2007: Bursting the Economic-Fear Bubble Feeling the Crunch Market Fluctuations and Subprime Morality All Play and No Work Makes for a Poor Life Arm Yourself for Job Fulfillment and Retirement Bliss No Nightmare on Wall Street Ten Ways to Blow A Sale Big Oil, Little Gratitude Recession-Proof Your Investment Strategy Anticipating All the Retirement Variables Old-School Lessons for the College-Bound How Speculators Exploit Market Fears A Peace Offering for Your Retirement A View of the Economy from Abroad When Paying off Doesn't Pay Time Flies When You're Unprepared Playing Politics at the Pump A Few Lessons From the Road Simple Pleasures Include Financial Security How to Have a Business Conversation Six Key Principles of Saving for Retirement The Long and Short of Down-Market Investing Keeping Your Cool in a Shaky Market To Get Rich, Just Follow the Instructions A Well-Oiled Defense A Home Truth About Real Estate Investing Investing Strategies for the New Year 2006: Success is All in a Day's Work A Season for Peace of Mind Lessons from an Economic Maestro A Formula for Long-Term Happiness Investing for the Real Payoff The Art of (Killing) the Deal What to Do When a Boom Goes Bust Signed, Sealed, Delivered, It's Yours A Lifetime of Perfect Summer Days Storm Warnings: What Katrina Taught Us Do I Hear Cannons? Must Be Time to Buy The Best Investment You'll Ever Make Your Golden Years Don't Have to be Tarnished Wise Words for Getting Ahead in Your Career How to Succeed in Hollywood -- and Anywhere Else After Enron, Corporate Wrongdoing Still Thrives High Oil Prices: Don't Shoot the Messengers Work Adds Shine to Your Golden Years The Cruel Truth About Retirement Three Big Mistakes in Retirement Planning Who's To Blame for High Oil and Gas Prices? Standards of Life in the Future: Think Grim Trade with China: More Gain than Pain for Americans Living Hand to Mouth -- and Barely Getting By Income That Lasts as Long as You Need It A Retirement Portfolio with Staying Power 2005: When Investing, Profit from Serenity Want Big Returns? Think Small China: Friend or Foe? Cement, Steel, and Stocks I Love You Alan Greenspan, But... A Model Portfolio for Weathering Retirement The Early Bird Gets the Nest Egg The Cure for Interesting Times? Money American Spectator - Ben Stein's Diary:  July/August 2006 - On the Road Again October 2005 - Unshared Sacrifice June 2005 - Desert Stars February 2005 - Scared at 60 December 2004/January 2005 - Special Deliverance September 2004 - Swimming to Arkansas May 2004 - American Salute April 2004 - Going Places October 2003 - Preserving the Civil War August/September 2003 - Spiders with Tenure May/June 2002 June 2001 - Defining Moments May 2001 - Shock Shock April 2001 - Hooked on Power March 2001 - Our New Plumbing November 2000 - Austin Power American Spectator - Other: Florida's Darwinian Interlude Specifics I Had No Alternative Al's Ignoble Nobel Shut Up Right to Worship A Taste of Indian Summer CNN Must Be Crazy Bush Amazes Our Founding Father Stupak's Stupidity Bush Much Greater Sharpton in the Morning Terror in our Midst Gratitude is Wealth Terribly Exciting The Lynching of the President I Smell a Borat A Christmas Day of Peace A Scary Russian Bear Dinner with the Bushes Dollar Signs at Ground Zero Pedophile Nation Foley in Perspective Hypocrisy, Democrat Style A Few More Little Facts How to Lose to Terrorists America! Out of Disproportion A Precious Morning Eretz Israel How Was Your Weekend? Defending the Flag Why I Am a Republican Let's Stand for Something Keeping the Faith Memorial Day Diary They Did God's Work What You Need to Know Stop the Scapegoating On This Good Friday Greetings from Rancho Mirage Better People Than I Am Missed Tributes We're Losing Oil is Well Saints in Armor Oil, Oil, Oil Good Morning, 2006 A Patriot Acts As Thanksgiving Approaches American Miracle A Big Lie Put to Rest More on Katrina Get Off His Back Tommy Turns 18 Bulletin from Ben Mr. Lonely Father's Day Perspectives Recruitment Improvement A New Yorker Kind of Guy The Cost of the War on Terrorism I Don't Feel for Felt Deep Throat and Genocide Reign DeLay The Truth About DeLay American Death Sentence Simply Terrifying Visiting Hours One of Them How Was Your Day? Gratitude Christmas Peace How to Ace an Exam Col. Denman's Luger We Shall Overcome The Land of $800 Haircuts Homage to the Eastern Front Happy Bush Country Riefenstahl Madness Democrats Taste Blood Go To Yale The Sharpie in Sharpton Malibu Mystery Theater Iraq and North Korea in Cahoots? The Quality of Mercy Roadway Pharisees The Daddy Trap For the Love of Money E! Online - Articles:  Do Jews Run Hollywood? E! Online - Monday Night at Morton's:  2003: How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World? (the often forwarded final column) The Problem in Our Lives is Powerlessness -- the Solution Is Also Powerlessness I Was Part of the In-Crowd -- and That's A Sweet Feeling, Here or Anywhere Take a Fair Position and Stick to It--and You'll Almost Always Get It Heaven Help Us if We Live in a Town Where Men Deserve Pity Because They Are Addicted to Shoes Gray Davis Is the Eminem of California Politics, Only Without the Great Beat Rap Amuses Me and Makes Me Think--but What Do White Suburban Kids Like My Son See in It? This Is the Way of the Armed Forces: Team Playing to Protect a Nation Only Barely Aware They Exist Hollywood Is About Leaving 'Em Laughing When You Go In All of the Time You Have Been in Hollywood, Who Are the Most Impressive Stars You Have Met?" You'd Be Surprised All Those Years in the GOP Vineyards, All Those Years at Yale --None of That Means a Thing Come Along for a Little Rap I Like to Call Saddam Insane A Society That Does Not Care for Those Who Care for Us Will Not -- and Should Not -- Last The United States is Strong in the Hearts of Americans at This Moment When We Are Under Siege There Is a Lot Going on Out in the World -- and a Lot of It Is Being Done by People Braver Than I I Am Still Totally Insane -- but at Least I Have a Home in Which to be Insane We Tend to Think When Terrible Things Happen It's the End, but It's Always A New Beginning 2002: How to Get Started in Hollywood? Have Smart, Kind, Well-Connected Friends How Sweet Our Childhoods Seem -- for the Youth but, More Important, for the Safety Kids in Cities Today Never Knew Any Calm -- the Revolution of Fear Is the Revolution of Our Era A Man from Mars Would've Thought There Were Only a Few Blacks in America in the '40s and 50s Why Is Such a Huge Deal Being Made over Martha Stewart? Win Ben Stein's Money is Gone -- but I Am Labor and Comedy Central Is Capital, and This Is How It Works There Are Happy People in Hollywood, but for Each of Them, How Many Are in Torment? "She's Holding Your Article over Me While I'm in Bed Without Any Clothes" Men in Black II is the Best Movie I Have Seen in Years -- but There is One Little Problem The Day Will Come When You Are Begging Your Parents' Friends for a Remembrance I Can't Get My Mind Off Robert Blake -- What a Nut, but What a Likable Nut I Can Feel the Fear and Tension Ebbing Away Maybe We Need to Consider This a Tale of Ovitz Envy No Movie or TV Show Ever Created Is As Haunting As Hollywood Itself Stardom? Courage? I Saw Both in the Hollow Eyes of a Small Child The Losers in This Town Disdain Work -- the Winners Embrace It I Think I'll Stay At Morton's Now, Where I Am Safe 2001: I Started to Cry As I Walked Up Rodeo Drive, and My Wife Asked Me Why People in Hollywood Are Not Sensible -- They Throw Away Their Lives on Dreams When You're A Big Star, You're the World's Property The Hollywood Type: Self-Obsessed, Rude Babies -- But Cute in the Nakedness of Their Self-Importance If Hollywood Were Running the Show, There Would Be No Wars Fun, Fun, Fun Until the Terrorists Take My T-Bird Away This Country is Not Weaker Now, It’s Stronger In the Eyes of Those Cops and Firemen, I Was Blessed Enough to See the Chimes of Freedom Flashing Hardly Anyone Can Imagine How Sweet Life Was Before the Revolution Yeah, I’m Older Than You, but I’ve Also Had a Lot More Fun All I Can Think About is Paul McCartney. Why? Why Is It So Exciting to Meet Him? It’s a Total Myth that Movie Companies Boom in Bad Times I Keep Thinking of the Lessons I learned in the 25 Years I've Been in Hollywood It's Not True that Celebrities Are Selfish Punks -- They Often Have Very Good Hearts I Have No Thoughts to Spend on the Material Girl -- We Are All Too Busy Being Material Boys I Really Look Like a Very Jewish Version of the King Life in Los Angeles is More Unforgiving Than Life in the Outback The Farther You Get From D.C. and the Smug Guys and Dolls, the Happier People Are How Come All of These Guys Are So Thin? I Suspect They've Made a Pact with the Devil Of the Kindest People I Have Ever Met, Almost All of Them Are in Hollywood "We Could All Go Back to Your House," Said the Woman Who Swings Deep Inside, I'm a Rock 'n' Roller -- That's Who I Really and Truly Am A Large Group Is Shouting "Ben Stein for President..." To Live in This Town, You Must Be Tough, Tough, Tough, Tough, Tough, Tough, Tough 2000: The Country Started Out Close to Perfect, and It's Better Than Ever -- Plus, Tom Hanks Lives Here Tonight, I Get to Be Honored by Sitting with Heroes Vitamin C Taught Me a Dance That Involves Shaking My Thighs I Had Hardly Ever Met Such an Interesting Psychological Case as Jenna Jameson I Still Have Yet to Meet Anyone in a Major Position of Power Who Is as Kind and Giving as Norman Lear She Seems to Have No Idea I Am a Major Star, but That's All Right Can You Even Imagine How Great It Is to Be a Star of Jennifer Aniston's Level? Tim Allen is Every Bit as Cheerful as Jay Leno is Sharp and Dour I Hate That the Conventions Are Over -- They've Been A Lot More Fun Than Working This Is the Civil, Good-Natured America of a Frank Capra Movie I Sure Love Sarah Jessica, but I Just Do Not Get Sex and the City We Stars All Wave to One Another As If We Know Each Other Little Did I Dream I Would Ever Be Walking on a Red Carpet with Daytime TV Stars I Would Pay His Mortgage for Drew Carey to Be My Next-Door Neighbor It's All About Hollywood -- New York Was the Center of the Universe Until L.A. Came Along The Handmaiden of All This Money Is Fear of What Happens If It Goes Away All Women in L.A. Look Unhappy All the Time Regis Has the Best Job and the Best Pay; I Have the Hardest and the Worst That's the Difference Between Doing Things and Writing About Things They'd Been Lied to So Many Times, They No Longer Believed Anyone I Didn't Even Know There Was a Dawson I Want to Be Like Grace Kelly in Rear Window Being a Star Would Not Have Stopped a Bullet 1999: In Washington, There are Nice People, but What Can They Do for Me or Maya? In Hollywood, the Smart Get Defeated and Lose Hope, While the Stupid Become Billionaires Stars Are Nice, and Fame Pays the Mortgage, but Puppy Is Life I Just Work on Maggie's Farm Like the Rest of the Talk-Show Hosts I Never, Ever Experience a True Miasma of Meaninglessness Until I Came Back to Hollywood To My Parents, Morton's, with Its Ranks of Bentleys and Porsches, Was a Mystery of Pretention You Can Get to the Middle Here, Even If You're Not Very Tough I Love Being a Star This Week More Than I Ever Have Before Blacklist? There Never Was a List. We Did it All on the Phone Going Home, up Outpost Drive, I Smell Star Jasmine the Whole Way Michael Eisner Was Not Born with Mouse Ears on His Head Hollywood Really Is a Machine for Redressing Childhood Slights If a Man Finds a Good-Looking Woman in Hollywood, He Doesn't Marry Her, He Rents Her I Wonder If They Show the Emmys in Heaven None of Them Had a Smile Like Sharon Stone I Have to Make a List of All the People in My Life Who Are Asking for Favors Here in Hollywood, It's Good to Be Greeted by a Studio Head, Not Good to Be Ignored by One In Hollywood, It's All A Question of Servants and Masters--or Servants and Mistresses If You're Rich Enough, You Can Just Behave in Any Crazy Way You Want If They Are All Rich, I Am Probably Rich, Too Maybe Rose McGowan Sleeps with a Teddy Bear I Ask Roseanne If She Wants to Join Us - She Shakes Her Head Here's Proof of One of My Major Laws of Hollywood Women Hollywood Is High School with Money 1998: Happy Holidays from the Promised Land The Silicone Valley, or One of the Many Silicone Valleys in Morton's Why Did Tom Hanks Look So Worried? I Wasn't Going to Hurt Him! Hollywood A-Go-Go He Is So Successful That It's Amazing His Feet Touch Ground. But That Hair! A Website Called Jew Alert Seems a Long Way from Morton's Where Do the Cool People Hang Out When It's Not Monday Night At Morton's? What's Important Is That There Are All of These Girls Why Bother to Have Such Thoughts at Morton's? It's Almost Treason And There in the Back Was Arsenio, Laughing and Scratching Since When Did 'Morally Deserving' Have Anything to Do with Getting Anywhere in Hollywood? That Was A Trick To Make Us Want Your Show Even More, Right? I Get People Saying 'Bueller, Bueller' to Me All the Time. I Don't Like It He Doesn't Look Like A Younger Tom Mount, He Looks Like An Entirely Different Tom Mount I Have A Stalker -- A Maniac. Actually, Two Maniacs I Have to Write A Check to the IRS, So Maybe You'll Buy Dessert That's Tommy Hilfiger -- Should I Ask Him To Join Us? I'm Trying To Count How Many Men I've Gone Down On To Get My Movie Made This Place is About Success, Not About Trials and Tribulations Someone Is Putting Ether Into Their Glasses How Long is Your Yacht? What Can It Mean That Scary People Are All Around Me? I Feel As If Someone Has Dropped a Bomb on Morton's Tonight -- A C-Bomb! People Are Noticing Me These Days, And I Like That Don't Tell Anyone What I Said About Universal...It's Scary There, and People Can Get Fired 1997: I'm Just Too Old and Set in My Dylan Ways Hey, Can We Get a Gulfstream V? What Luck for Me That the Kung Fu Guy Is There to Take Care of Me Smiling Faces, Smiling Faces, Tell Lies... It's Like Everyone Here is Underwater Tonight I Love This Little Lizard - He's My New Pal At Morton's Not Everyone Has A Game Show, Says The Real-Estate Woman What's Three Billion in the Bank if You Can't Get Your Food Done Right? The Chest Sizes of the Women at Morton's Have Exploded When You Have a Lamborghini Countach, You Can Park Anywhere and Never Get Towed That Bitch! She Ruined the Premiere of My Show If My Show Is A Hit, I'll Have to Get Used to This I Don't Recall That Morton's Was Always So Filled with Call Girls What If Something Happens to Harrison Ford on That Plane? How Much Do You Make From That? Enough to Buy Me a Condo? Why Can't They Turn Down the Noise? What A World: Money Is Everything, and a Person I Like Is For Sale It Breaks My Heart To Say It, But Somehow Larry King and Henry Kissinger Look Alike The Real Lines In Life Are Between the Big Scammers and the Small I'd Hug Everyone Else Who Was a Disney Director, Too, If I Were One He Has A Million Girls, So I Guess We're Finished We're All For Sale - Except Maybe Wanda and Richard from West Virginia The Place Was Like A Zoo of Rich Animals Morton's Is About Making Money, Not Giving It Away What Must It Be Like to be Young Like Jason Priestley? 1996: Commerce Is Our Goal Here in L.A. Sylvester Stallone and I Went to the Same Junior High School Baa, Baa, Baa My Grandfather Had a Duel with the Red Baron Isn't It Great to be Thin? Warren, uh, uh, Warren... Whatever Anyone Says at Morton's Is True How Can This City Be So Rich When People in It Have Such Wacky Ideas? What Do They Want? Why Are They Here? Martin Davis is Roughing it Tonight I Love This Guy! I Didn't See You in Hit and Run Other Articles:  The Dream That Once Was Detroit Fox News Interview on Congress Power Shift and the Economy In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class is Winning Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield Fourth is a Time of Celebration, But Also of Gratitude A City on a Hill, or a Looting Opportunity Ithaca College Commencement Address How to Ruin American Enterprise Just for Today Affirmations Why You Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Market My Father's Estate My Family Values Would you like Ben Stein to speak at your gathering or host an event? Click here for more information!

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