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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Last week, Saudi Arabia announced, in conjunction with OPEC+, that it would be cutting oil production in the face of dropping prices. That decision came… Read More
InternationalCommentary
How does the war in Ukraine end? This is precisely the question no one is supposed to ask these days. The supposition by our thought… Read More
SecurityCommentary
On the 21st anniversary of Sept. 11, President Joe Biden repeated the same tired nostrums we have heard for the past several years on the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
We live in a deeply serious time with deeply unserious leaders. Historian Niall Ferguson has written that the “extreme violence of the 20th century” was… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, President Joe Biden—in search of a new label to pin on his political opponents after the failure of his “ultra-MAGA” branding, which prompted… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On Friday, The New York Times published its latest op-ed calling for the end of the Constitution of the United States. The authors, Ryan Doerfler… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In October 2018, agents of the Saudi Arabian government murdered columnist and Muslim Brotherhood fellow traveler Jamal Khashoggi in gruesome fashion. The fallout in the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, the FBI raided the Florida home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. It based its raid on the purported rationale that it… Read More
SecurityCommentary
This week, the Chinese government announced its fierce opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visiting Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian… Read More
EducationCommentary
This week, a professor went viral during congressional testimony regarding the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade. During her testimony Tuesday, professor Khiara… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On July 3, 1776, shortly after the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling overdue by some five decades, striking down Roe v. Wade (1973) and its… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The false center cannot hold. In France, President Emmanuel Macron has now lost his majority in the National Assembly; his party holds 245 seats in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This week, the stock market took a turn into bear territory on the heels of yet another brutal monthly inflation report. With the Federal Reserve… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, my company, The Daily Wire, premiered a blockbuster new documentary starring Matt Walsh. Titled “What Is A Woman?”, the documentary investigates radical gender… Read More
SocietyCommentary
June marks LGBTQI+ Pride Month—a month honoring those who are “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex.” This ever-expanding rubric revolves around a particular value… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the World Economic Forum hosts a massive… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, a racist mass shooter massacred 10 people and wounded three others at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket. The shooter was a white supremacist;… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In the aftermath of a leaked Supreme Court draft majority decision prospectively overruling Roe v. Wade, the left in the United States has gone into… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, an anonymous leaker violated generations of Supreme Court norms by passing on to Politico a draft decision by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, in one of the most shocking business moves in recent memory, Twitter reversed itself and decided to sell itself after all to Elon… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This week, America received news of yet another shocking inflation report: Over the past 12 months, inflation has skyrocketed 8.5%, outpacing wage gains by 2.9%…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Last week, reporter Christopher Rufo released video footage of top Disney employees vowing to inject their radical LGBTQ agenda into children’s programming. Disney producer Latoya… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, Will Smith—perhaps the most bankable star of his generation—won an Oscar for Best Actor for “King Richard.” But that wasn’t why he made… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, the Walt Disney Co., which has approximately 200,000 employees spanning the globe, decided to radically reshape its politics in response to a tiny… Read More
InternationalCommentary
There is no substitute for American strength. When America’s enemies find weakness, they exert pressure. And today, America’s enemies are finding weakness at nearly every… Read More
EnergyCommentary
This week, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine dragged on, gas prices in America soared to their highest levels since 2008, increasing over 57 cents… Read More
SecurityCommentary
After the end of the Cold War, foreign policy experts across the spectrum assured us that things had changed. Wars of pure border conquest were… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In September 2020, January Littlejohn went to pick up her 13-year-old daughter from middle school. Littlejohn is a stay-at-home mother to three children and a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the lightweight, unpopular elected leader of a country with a 93% vaccination rate for those over 60 and… Read More
