I finally learned: The best column is the shortest column. My thoughts this week: open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

My Los Angeles Magazine interview with Bill Maher, who may or may not have been high as a kite that smoked a lot of marijuana:
lamag.com/comedy/bill-ma…

My column on the kids. Oh, the kids. Yes, I'm that age now. open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

In this column I explore:
The real killers relief now that O.J. is dead
Whether AI can make me funnier
If society could handle that open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

My latest, most harrowing, Substack about the dangers of surgery. Specifically, the music surgeons play while you're unconscious. open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

My The Hollywood Reporter article about how #threebodyproblem 's very first scene thrilled the anti-woke. By mistake.
hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the…

Surgeons: What songs do you play during surgery and why? And do you wait until the patient is under anathema before rocking out? (Yes, this is for a column.)

My most violent Substack column yet: open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

My newest, brilliantest Substack column:
Democracy, We’re Just Not That Into You open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

Four-times divorced Rupert Murdoch, 93, just got engaged. I have some advice for his future ex-wife in my Substack column this week.
open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

Sorry about the photo of my foot. Sometimes you have to scare people to save them. And, yes, my college roommate Jim Morgan called me Bilbo Baggins.
My Substack column this week: open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

I answer today's most pressing journalistic question: How do you decide to charge $275 for a bottle of wine?
open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

This is so unbelievably ignorant. In New York City, the most dangerous places to ice cream joints. youtube.com/watch?v=AwztEU…

My TOWN&COUNTRY article about why Beverly Hills suddenly has good restaurants. This is why I went into journalism. Really.
townandcountrymag.com/leisure/dining…

To figure out what to do now that print media is over, I spent a week at Stanford's Distinguished Career Institute despite the fact that my career has been in no way distinguished.
stanfordmag.org/contents/and-n…

My Substack column this week:
Alexei Navalny Was A Hero to Most open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

Man, if only Speaker Johnson had the power to actually do something about it

Every politician not talking about Navalny today is untrustworthy as a democratic leader.

IYes, I had a 12-year-old boss when I was 24. But look at him now! My humiliating Substack column about this: open.substack.com/pub/thejoelste…

Just like we drew it up.