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• Golden Days What produces them for most people has very little to do with politicians.
  Herbert Stein Nov. 28, 1997
  
• Father of the Star Father of the Star
  Herbert Stein Nov. 7, 1997
  
• The Second-Best Sauce The joys of "home" cooking.
  Herbert Stein Oct. 3, 1997
  
• A Klutz at the Ballet More satisfying than watching Clinton waltz with Gingrich.
  Herbert Stein Aug. 29, 1997
  
• 207 Channels My 18-inch dish is cute, but she doesn't have much class.
  Herbert Stein Aug. 1, 1997
  
• On Being a Jew From a Russian shtetl to Washington, D.C., in one leap.
  Herbert Stein July 11, 1997
  
• Watching the Couples Go By Why is this basic woman so valuable to this basic man whose arm she holds?
  Herbert Stein June 13, 1997
  
• Herb Stein's Unfamiliar Quotations On money, madness, and making mistakes.
  Herbert Stein May 16, 1997
  
• High Life on the Potomac Mr. Reich comes to Washington.
  Herbert Stein April 18, 1997
  
• A Tourist at Home Observing America from a seat on the bus.
  Herbert Stein April 4, 1997
  
• An Old Couch Potato's Lament Now that I have time to watch, there's nothing I want to see (or: Where are the nonirritating, guilt-free programs like, well, Murder, She Wrote?).
  Herbert Stein March 7, 1997
  
• The Cubist Republican What Gertrude Stein and I share--beyond a last name.
  Herbert Stein Feb. 7, 1997
  
• Reading the Inaugurals A primer on what presidents say after they take the oath.
  Randy Cohen Jan. 11, 1997