Author and Cultural Essayist

Harry Stein

3 articles 2002–2017

Harry Stein is an author and essayist known for his writings on culture, politics, and family life. A former columnist for Esquire and other publications, he has written several books exploring ethics, media bias, and social commentary. He contributed essays and cultural criticism to The Weekly Standard between 2002 and 2017.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

January 19, 2017 · magazine_repost, Surgery, Hospitals

My open heart surgery was originally scheduled for 7:30 a.m., November 9—the morning after the election—but a couple of weeks before, I managed to switch it to a day later. Why take the chance that someone vital in the operating room had been up all night watching the returns—or, as it turned out,…

Elective Surgery

January 13, 2017 · Surgery, Magazine, Hospitals

My open heart surgery was originally scheduled for 7:30 a.m., November 9—the morning after the election—but a couple of weeks before, I managed to switch it to a day later. Why take the chance that someone vital in the operating room had been up all night watching the returns—or, as it turned out,…

How the Father Figures

January 28, 2002 · Magazine, Harry Stein

WAS THERE MORE to the John Walker story than we know? For all the tens of millions of words that gushed forth about Walker, and the endless speculation as to how this young man could have gone so dreadfully wrong, has a potentially key element of the case gone almost completely unreported? The…