--- title: Joel Stein | TIME description: Joel Stein is the author In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book. Stein was a staff writer for TIME from 1997 to 2017, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories canonical: https://time.com/author/joel-stein/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/joel-stein/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Joel Stein ## Joel Stein Joel Stein is the author [In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book](https://www.amazon.com/URL-change/dp/1455591475/ref=sr%5F1%5F1?crid=3MCOC9FNNLF8H). Stein was a staff writer for TIME from 1997 to 2017, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories ## Joel Stein Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/joel-stein/","name":"Joel Stein"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/joel-stein/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/joel-stein/"},"name":"Joel Stein","jobTitle":null,"description":"Joel Stein is the author In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book. Stein was a staff writer for TIME from 1997 to 2017, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories","url":"https://time.com/author/joel-stein/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```