Ben Shapiro is host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, he is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is "The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent."
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With the revelation over the past two weeks that President Joe Biden is mentally and physically diminished, Democrats have traveled through all five stages of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Last week, President Joe Biden gave the worst debate performance on the presidential stage in history. Looking ancient, gazing glassy-eyed and slack-jawed out of frame,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The 2024 election is Donald Trump’s to lose. Right now, he is running even with President Joe Biden in all the national polls. He’s running… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
We have heard repeatedly during this election cycle that Donald Trump is a deep and abiding threat to democracy. That threat supposedly springs from Trump’s… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Last week, a New York City jury, prompted by the legal coordination between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan—both partisan actors—convicted Donald… Read More
International Commentary
One of the great qualities of the West is its belief in the directionality of history. Many ancient cultures believed that history was circular: Native… Read More
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The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is the most morally clear conflict in modern history. It pits an actual terrorist group… Read More
EducationCommentary
America’s college campuses are in a state of complete meltdown—at least in blue states, where administrators cater to the whims of these America-hating dolts. But… Read More
International Commentary
This week, the Islamic Republic of Iran—a radical Shariah theocracy hellbent on the destruction of Israel and Saudi Arabia, among others—fired some 300 drones and… Read More
International Commentary
On Oct. 7, thousands of members of the terrorist group Hamas and its “civilian” friends broke through the barrier between the Gaza Strip and Israel… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, famed British atheist Richard Dawkins explained that he was a “cultural Christian.” Praising civilization in the United Kingdom, Dawkins stated: I do think… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Sunday night at the Oscars, a director named Jonathan Glazer made international headlines. Glazer won an Academy Award for his film “Zone of Interest,” which… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, a mentally disturbed anarchist and active-duty Air Force member named Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire and proceeded to burn himself to death… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, three American soldiers died at the hands of an Iranian proxy group that used a drone to strike an American base in Jordan…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, I visited Auschwitz. I never before had visited any of the death camps. The experience is absolutely chilling. Auschwitz, of course, was a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
2023 was a rather bad year. Not as bad as 2024 is likely to be, or as 2020 was. But bad. Nonetheless, we ought to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
On Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that former President Donald Trump had to be removed from the state ballot, for both the… Read More
Education Commentary
I know a little bit about the kinds of speech that generally are welcomed on campus. I’ve been banned from a few campuses, including DePaul… Read More
InternationalCommentary
So, Javier Milei is extremely scary. That’s what the legacy media have decided: The newly elected libertarian conservative leader of Argentina is absolutely frightening. Axios… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Last weekend marked Armistice Day in Great Britain and Veterans Day in the United States. Both are somber days, typically marked by honor and respect… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This past month has seen the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. It has also seen the worst global spike in antisemitism since the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, the Metropolitan Police in London were videotaped removing posters with pictures of hostages taken by Hamas. The posters were being removed from Cullimore… Read More
InternationalCommentary
I am a Jew. Those have been the words of the Jewish people for three millennia. Those were the words of the men, women, and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Times of London and Britain’s Channel 4 issued a scathing expose about actor and comedian-turned-podcaster Russell Brand. Brand began his career as a comedian… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, the Burning Man festival—a convocation of large groups of men and women seeking sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and other forms of hedonistic… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This week, the Biden administration announced that Medicare would name some 10 prescription drugs it would subject to direct price negotiations. The drugs include Jardiance… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency—his deep and abiding capacity… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched a 98-page missile directly into the heart of American politics. That missile was a 41-count indictment… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of former President Barack Obama in his early… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see—the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with…. Read More
