Joel Stein was a staff writer and colum­nist for Time mag­a­zine for twen­ty years; he was also a colum­nist for Enter­tain­ment Week­ly and The Los Ange­les Times. He is the author of Man Made: A Stu­pid Quest for Mas­culin­i­ty and writes for the upcom­ing TV show Amer­i­can Princess, pro­duced by Jen­ji Kohan.