Scripps College presents an evening with Ben Stein as part of the sixth annual Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program. Stein will speak on Dark Days in America—How to Get to Daybreak, on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m., in Scripps College’s Performing Arts Center, Garrison Theater. The presentation is free and open to the public.
In addition to his career as an author and actor, Stein has worked for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as a speech writer and lawyer. He served as an economist at the Department of Commerce, a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., as well as an adjunct professor at American University, University of California Santa Cruz, and Pepperdine University.
Stein has been an editorial writer and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, and E! Online, with frequent contributions to Barron’s. Currently, he writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for The American Spectator magazine, a column for The New York Times Sunday business section, and personal finance articles for Yahoo!. Stein is a commentator for both CBS Sunday Morning and Fox News.
In addition to Stein’s regular columns, he is a best-selling author, having written or co-written 30 books. His books mainly focus on finance, ethical and social issues, and mass culture. Stein also has acted in several movies, television shows, and commercials. He is perhaps best known as the boring economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. From 1997 to 2002, Stein was featured on the Comedy Central quiz show Win Ben Stein’s Money, winner of seven Daytime Emmy Awards.
Stein graduated with honors in economics from Columbia University and from Yale Law School as class valedictorian.
For more information about this event, contact the Office of Malott Commons at (909) 607-9372.