Harry Stein joined City Journal as a contributing editor in 2000, shortly after the publication of his ‘How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace),’ his best selling memoir recounting his journey to conservatism from the precincts of the left.

A graduate of Pomona College and Columbia’s School of Journalism, over the course of his career Stein has authored ten books, both fiction and non-fiction; co-founded a magazine in Paris; worked as a columnist for publications ranging from Esquire to TV Guide; and written a half dozen screenplays.

For City Journal, he has specialized in various aspects of popular culture and issues of race; opposing political correctness; and covering the campaigns against racial preferences in education and government hiring led by the estimable Ward Connerly. His forthcoming book, “I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican,” (Encounter Books, June, 2009), chronicles the everyday travails and triumphs of conservatives marooned in the liberal bastions (from Manhattan to Hollywood), and professions (from academia to mental health) that view them with disdain.

 

City Journal Articles

• What Mad Men Gets Wrong, Autumn 2009
• The Boys Who Cry Racism, 15 October 2009
• Beck Bashing, 18 September 2009
• Unteachable, 27 July 2009
• Selena Roberts Has No Shame, 13 February 2009
• All Hammer, No Nail, 9 October 2008
• The Anti-Barbara Boxer, 30 August 2008
• The Racism Card, 29 August 2008
• May 1968: 40 Years Later, Spring 2008
• Racial-Preference Ballots Go National, 16 April 2008
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