Joel Stein

JOEL STEIN was not easy to work with on this speaker's bio. He demanded a lot of changes, particularly in regard to his photo, which he believed could be adjusted to make him look younger, fitter, and, somehow, “famouser.”

The only facts he provided that were verifiable were that he was a staff writer and columnist for Time magazine for twenty years, where he wrote twenty-two cover stories; that he was a columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times; that he is the author of Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity and the upcoming In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book; and that he has taught at Princeton and written for several sitcoms.

There is no factual basis for his claim that his writing has “saved millions of lives and destroyed many more marriages.”