Harry Stein joined City Journal as a contributing editor in 2000, shortly after the publication of 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 nonfiction; cofounded 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; opposed political correctness; and covered the campaigns against racial preferences in education and government hiring led by the estimable Ward Connerly. His recent book, I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican, 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. He is currently working on another book for Encounter Books tentatively titled Everything You've Always Known About Race (But Were Afraid to Say).

 

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Advocacy Groups

A Preemptive Surrender City Journal, Spring 2006

Affirmative Action

A Preemptive Surrender City Journal, Spring 2006

Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? City Journal, Autumn 2006

Architecture

Racial-Grievance Industry Won't Learn a Thing RealClearMarkets, 07-27-09

Arts and Literature

The Future of Conservative Books City Journal, Summer 2008

What Mad Men Gets Wrong City Journal, Autumn 2009

Children and Family

Pulling the Plug City Journal, Summer 1998

Daytime TV Gets Judgmental City Journal, Spring 2004

Boxing With my Wife Los Angeles Times, 11-14-10

Culture and Society

Feminists and their Enemies City Journal, Autumn 2000

New York’s Tabloid Treasure City Journal, Winter 2001

Pulling the Plug City Journal, Summer 1998

Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real! City Journal, Autumn 2001

The Feminists’ Big Lie City Journal, 3 May 2002

How I Was Smeared City Journal, Autumn 2002

Daytime TV Gets Judgmental City Journal, Spring 2004

Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage City Journal, Spring 2005

Laughing at the Left City Journal, Summer 2005

Justice to Elia Kazan City Journal, Autumn 2005

May 1968: 40 Years Later City Journal, Spring 2008

The Future of Conservative Books City Journal, Summer 2008

What Mad Men Gets Wrong City Journal, Autumn 2009

Ethnicity

A Preemptive Surrender City Journal, Spring 2006

Racial-Grievance Industry Won't Learn a Thing RealClearMarkets, 07-27-09

Feminism

Feminists and their Enemies City Journal, Autumn 2000

Higher Education

Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real! City Journal, Autumn 2001

The Race-O-Meter City Journal, Winter 2004

History

Justice to Elia Kazan City Journal, Autumn 2005

May 1968: 40 Years Later City Journal, Spring 2008

Legal Issues

Daytime TV Gets Judgmental City Journal, Spring 2004

Media

Feminists and their Enemies City Journal, Autumn 2000

New York’s Tabloid Treasure City Journal, Winter 2001

Pulling the Plug City Journal, Summer 1998

Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real! City Journal, Autumn 2001

How I Was Smeared City Journal, Autumn 2002

Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage City Journal, Spring 2005

Laughing at the Left City Journal, Summer 2005

The Future of Conservative Books City Journal, Summer 2008

National Politics

How I Was Smeared City Journal, Autumn 2002

Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? City Journal, Autumn 2006

New York City

New York’s Tabloid Treasure City Journal, Winter 2001

Political Correctness

Feminists and their Enemies City Journal, Autumn 2000

The Race-O-Meter City Journal, Winter 2004

Politics

Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? City Journal, Autumn 2006

The Future of Conservative Books City Journal, Summer 2008

Race

The Race-O-Meter City Journal, Winter 2004

Daytime TV Gets Judgmental City Journal, Spring 2004

A Preemptive Surrender City Journal, Spring 2006

Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? City Journal, Autumn 2006

Racial-Grievance Industry Won't Learn a Thing RealClearMarkets, 07-27-09

Race and Ethnicity

The Race-O-Meter City Journal, Winter 2004

A Preemptive Surrender City Journal, Spring 2006

Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? City Journal, Autumn 2006

Race Issues

Racial-Grievance Industry Won't Learn a Thing RealClearMarkets, 07-27-09

Race Relations

Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action? City Journal, Autumn 2006

Unions

A Preemptive Surrender City Journal, Spring 2006

War on Terror

Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real! City Journal, Autumn 2001