--- 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 *  Oct 22, 2019 ### [I Am Forming a New Political Party for Smug Elites Like Me](https://time.com/5705024/elite-party/) Part of embracing facts, logic and history is knowing that we will sometimes be wrong [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 26, 2017 ### [To Solve My Social Anxiety, I Had to Confront Why I Became a Writer In the First Place](https://time.com/4998250/to-solve-my-social-anxiety-i-had-to-confront-why-i-became-a-writer-in-the-first-place/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 21, 2017 ### [What I Learned About Leadership from Leading Leaders](https://time.com/4951213/what-i-learned-about-leadership-from-leading-leaders/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 24, 2017 ### [Me, My Liberal Wife and What Happened When We Went to a Gun Range](https://time.com/4913689/liberal-wife-gun-range-joel-stein/) 'She wanted to protect herself from the people who had guns to protect themselves' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 20, 2017 ### [Mr. President, I Demand You Do Your Duty and Insult Me. Please?](https://time.com/4865971/donald-trump-insults-media-but-not-me/) 'He's insulted journalists I haven't even heard of, and I'm a journalist' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 15, 2017 ### [That Time an Algorithm Whisperer Took Me to the Heart of Darkness](https://time.com/4819577/algorithm-whisperer-took-me-to-heart-of-darkness/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 19, 2016 ### [Predictions About Prediction in 2017, With the Help of Lisa Vanderpump](https://time.com/4606092/predictions-about-prediction/) Data is out, and pure gut instinct is in [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 8, 2016 ### [In 2016, Lies, the Whole Lies and Nothing but the Lies](https://time.com/4594976/in-2016-lies-the-whole-lies-and-nothing-but-the-lies/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 12, 2016 ### [I Now Have Scientific Proof of How Awesome I Really Am](https://time.com/4475622/i-now-have-scientific-proof-of-how-awesome-i-really-am-and-you-can-too/) And you can too [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 18, 2016 ### [Why Older People Shouldn't Vote — and Other Ideas Unpopular With My Parents](https://time.com/4457131/why-older-people-shouldnt-vote-and-other-ideas-unpopular-with-my-parents/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 28, 2016 ### [I Want Olympic Glory for My Son. He Doesn't Want to Break a Sweat](https://time.com/4428039/i-want-olympic-glory-for-my-son/) Unless it's dressage [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 30, 2016 ### [Turns Out an 'Emotional Vacation' Was Just the Kind of Vacation I Needed](https://time.com/4389119/joel-stein-emotional-vacation/) Time Magazine decided to give readers an 'emotional vacation' from politics [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 26, 2016 ### [How Trump Went Mainstream (and You Can Too!)](https://time.com/4348956/how-trump-went-mainstream-and-you-can-too/) Our moral horror crumbles from even a light application of mass opinion [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 12, 2016 ### [We Have Become an Idiocracy](https://time.com/4327424/idiocracy/) And it only took two-and-a-half centuries [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 21, 2016 ### [Four Legs Good, Two Legs Irrelevant](https://time.com/4302999/four-legs-good-two-legs-irrelevant/) The TIME 100 is all too human. 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