THE STUPIDEST THING EVER WRITTEN ABOUT WATERGATE

Spoiler Alert: It’s by Ben Stein

The 46th anniversary of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation seems like the perfect occasion to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the publication of what is very likely the stupidest thing ever written about Watergate: an op-ed column for The Washington Post by one Benjamin J. Stein. This was a screed so cretinous that even its author seems to…