Recent things Joel has written:

‘The Three Body Problem Scene That’s a Political Lightning Rod’
Hollywood Reporter, April 2024

‘And Now for My Second Act’
Stanford Magazine, February 2024

‘Hollywood Ghostwriters Tell All’
Hollywood Reporter, January 2024

‘The Food Truck From 'Chef' Now Has a Permanent Home in Las Vegas’
Los Angeles Magazine, December 2023

‘If Other Executives Trolled Critics Like Casey Bloys’
Hollywood Reporter, November 2023

‘Digital Divide: Why New York Transplants Won't Give Up the 917’
Los Angeles Magazine, November 2023

‘School of Hard Laughs’
Hollywood Reporter, October 2023

‘Rupert Murdoch’s Retirement Plan? Wine Down’
Los Angeles Magazine, October 2023

‘Questions from Florida’s Newly Adopted Classic Learning Test’
New Yorker, October 2023

‘Left Wondering’ Advice column
Lever News, September 2023

‘How a Squad of MAGA Warriors Flush with Cash Turned on Each Other’
Financial Times, July 2023

‘Trashy Lingerie Turns 50’
Los Angeles Magazine, June 2023

‘The Best Pet Workplaces’
Businessweek, May 2023

‘How to Stop Turning into Your Parents’
The Arrow, May 2023

‘Giving Up the Ghostwriter’
Los Angeles Magazine, March 2023

‘The Twitch Seinfeld Show Proves AI Shouldn’t Write Comedy’
Wired, February 2023

‘How to Dress for Warmth and Still Look Cool’
The Arrow, February 2023

‘Exercising While Stoned’
Hollywood Reporter, January 2023

‘The Buried Treasure of Hustler Founder Larry Flynt’
Los Angeles Magazine, January 2023

‘If Hollywood 2023 Was a Movie’
Hollywood Reporter, December 2022

‘A Restaurant Regular Takes a Turn Behind the Stove’
Town & Country, December 2022

‘My Five Step Guide to Getting Rich’
The Arrow, December 2022

‘Crypto Crash is Helping a Few Couples Rekindle Their Relationship’
Businessweek, Nov 2022

‘How I Stopped Being So Jealous of My Wife’s Cool Exes’
The Arrow, October 2022

‘How I Built a Celebrity Booze Brand’
Food and Wine, September 2022

‘How to Handle a Billion-Dollar Divorce’
Town & Country, September 2022

‘Where to Find a Great Bottle of Red Wine for Under $20’
The Arrow, September 2022

‘Blood Sport: How Dana White Turned the UFC into a $4b Titan’
Financial Times, September 2022

‘My Dinner with Jose Andres’
Los Angeles Magazine, September 2022

‘Simping in Web3 to Follow the DAO of Irene’
Forkast, August 2022

‘Spite the Power’
Air Mail, July 2022

‘StepN Up with Crypto’s Move to Earn’
Forkast, June 2022

‘Why Women Are So Attracted to Middle-Aged Dads’
The Arrow, June 2022

‘Q&A with Bryan Cranston’
The Arrow, June 2022

‘The Undead: Is Cancel Culture Finally Over?’
Los Angeles Magazine, May 2022

‘How Can I Become a Metaverse Real Estate Mogul?’
Forkast, May 2022

‘My Brush with Real World Stardom’
The Arrow, May 2022

‘My Brief Wondrous Life as an Axie Infinity Gamer’
Forkast, May 2022

‘Chasing My First Crypto Wallet Down a Rabbit Hole’
Forkast, April 2022

‘Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen and the Makings of a Crypto Holy War’
The Information, April 2022

‘How L.A. Got Hooked on Adderall’
Los Angeles Magazine, April 2022

‘What Ketanji Brown Jackson Can Expect to Eat for Lunch if She’s Confirmed’
Los Angeles Times, March 2022

‘How Did Squarespace Know Podcasts Would Get This Big?’
New York Times, February 2022

‘How Miami Became the Most Important City in America’
Financial Times magazine, February 2022

‘Can the World’s Most Connected Doctor Cure Cancer?’
Los Angeles Magazine, February 2022

‘Gen Z Has Arrived at the Office—And It’s Freaking Everyone Out’
Los Angeles Magazine, December 2021

‘How Not to Sell Your Hilarious Comedy Pitch’
Hollywood Reporter, November 2021

‘Hollywood’s Secret Loop Groups’
Hollywood Reporter, September 2021

‘The Screen Actors Guild Presidential Election is the Ugliest Contest of 2021’
Washington Post, September 2021

‘The Subscription Box That Teaches Kids to Do Good’
New York Times, June 2021

‘Kevin Hart Isn’t The Funniest Person His Kids Know’
Romper, June 2021

‘American Airlines is Selling Its First Class Wine Selection. We Tried It Out.’
Town & Country, March 2021

‘Ted Cruz Wants to be a Populist. But He Can’t Get It Right.’
Washington Post, February 2021

‘My Wife Was Wary of My Lab Made Dinner Party. The Faux Whiskey Won Her Over.’
New York Times, February 2021

‘How I Made Up With My Agent’
Hollywood Reporter, February 2021

‘Are All Cocktails Bad or Am I Just Bad at Making Them?’
Food & Wine, February 2021

‘George Clooney is Starting To Feel His Age’
AARP Magazine, February 2021

‘This is Not a Joke: The Cost of Being Humorless’
Stanford Graduate School of Business, January 2021

‘What Hilariagate Says About You’
Hollywood Reporter, December 2020

‘Joel Stein Mourns Quibi’
Hollywood Reporter, October 2020

‘Kazakhstan, Reversing Course, Embraces Borat As Very Nice’
New York Times, October 2020

‘The Existential Dread (And Joy) of Attending A Real, Live COVID-Era Concert’
Vanity Fair, October 2020

‘Remember Trump’s Hair Deduction? Joel Stein Wonders: Can I Do That?’
Hollywood Reporter, October 2020

‘A Chronically Extroverted WME Agent & His Daughter Raised Millions During Quarantine’
Los Angeles Magazine, September 2020

‘Can You Be Too Rich to Be Canceled?’
Town & Country, September 2020

‘More Men Are Wearing Makeup. And Now I See Why’
Los Angeles Magazine, September 2020

‘Goldman Sachs Has Money. It Has Power. Now It Has a Font’
New York Times, August 2020

‘Trump’s Secret Weapon Against Biden Is – Boat Parades?’
Los Angeles Times, August 2020

‘Zoom Shirts’
New York Times, June 2020

‘Book Review: How to Feed a Dictator’
Air Mail, May 2020

‘Hollywood’s Most Exclusive Party is Password Protected on Zoom’
Businessweek, April 2020

‘Reservation App Pivots to Fancy Takeout’
Businessweek, April 2020

‘Will the Pandemic Turn Us All Into Teenage Girls?’
Los Angeles Magazine, April 2020

‘How to Say ‘No’ to a Zoom Meeting’
Businessweek, April 2020

‘No One Retires Anymore’
Town & Country, April 2020

‘Drink Your Best Wine Now’
Food & Wine, April 2020

‘Why Middle-Aged Men Are Mainlining Coronavirus Memes’
Vanity Fair, March 2020

‘Pandemic Porn is Exploding’
Medium, March 2020

‘Trump Honestly Doesn’t Think Blagojevich Did Anything Wrong’
Los Angeles Times, February 2020

‘The Day Cancel Culture Was Canceled’
Los Angeles Magazine, February 2020

‘A Eulogy For The Beautiful Time When L.A. Worshipped the Prius’
Hollywood Reporter, February 2020

‘I Biohacked for 10 Weeks to Try to Live Forever’
Medium, January 2020

‘Book Review: The Less People Know About Us’
Air Mail, January 2020

‘L.A. is Fighting Its Homeless Crisis, One Giant Planter at a Time’
Washington Post, December 2019

‘How Not To Give Someone A Bottle of Wine’
Food + Wine, December 2019

‘Always Google the Guest List’
Town & Country, December 2019

‘The Democratic Field: A Fair Comparison’
The New York Times, November 2019

‘Elizabeth Warren Has an Elitism Problem in the 2020 Election’
The Los Angeles Times, October 2019

'I Am Forming A New Political Party For Smug Elites Like Me'
Time, October 2019

‘Joel Stein Goes Inside Stephanie Miller’s Resistance Dinner Party’
Los Angeles Magazine, October 2019

‘My Life as a Davos Deadhead’
Medium, October 2019

‘Impeachment is an Elitist Trap’
The Washington Post, October 2019

‘I Was Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti For A Day’
LinkedIn Weekend Essay, October 2019

‘How Much Would Trump’s Border Moat Cost?’
Businessweek, October 2019

‘Democrats Should Recruit a Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate for Their 2020 Ticket’
The Los Angeles Times, September 2019

‘A Haunted House for L.A.’s Aspirational Class’
Los Angeles Magazine, October 2019

‘Could a Tiny Mint Cure My Sugar Cravings?’
Medium, October 2019

‘Are All The Most Interesting People Already Dead’
Town & Country, September 2019

‘I Toured the ‘Brady Bunch’ House and It Did Not Go As Planned’
Medium, September 2019

‘I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets’
Bloomberg Businessweek, August 2019

‘Hollywood’s Holy Hipster Scene’
Vanity Fair, August 2019

‘How Hollywood Restaurants Are Treating Disgraced Diners in the #MeToo Era’
The Hollywood Reporter, July 2019

‘Inside TV Producer Phil Rosenthal's Sunday Movie Night’
The Hollywood Reporter, July 2019

‘Kumail Nanjiani Is the Superhero America Needs Right Now’
Elle, July 2019

‘The Time I Wore a MAGA Hat to Lunch at Café Gratitude’
Los Angeles Magazine, May 2019

‘We’re teaching kids to follow their dreams. Maybe teach them to be helpful instead’
The Los Angeles Times, May 2019

‘Hollywood writers want snacks and good agencies. We’ve got one of those’
The Washington Post, April 2019

‘This Is How I'll Fire My Agent’
The Hollywood Reporter, April 2019

‘Biden wants to be mindful about personal space? Get him a hula hoop’
The Los Angeles Times, April 2019