Articles by Ben Shapiro

InternationalCommentary

What Does Russia Want?

Ben Shapiro | May 03, 2025

Russia’s war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive seemed fated for success: Russian troops came within a… Read More

 EconomyCommentary

How Not to Fight a Trade War

Ben Shapiro | April 25, 2025

This week, the stock market yo-yoed wildly, taking investors on a roller coaster of stunning lows and sudden highs. Rarely has investment been so gut-churning…. Read More

 EconomyInternationalCommentary

Trump’s Reality-Driven U-Turn

Ben Shapiro | April 10, 2025

President Donald Trump did what he had to do. Last week, Trump dropped an economic neutron bomb by declaring tariffs on virtually every country on… Read More

SecurityCommentary

On Security Breaches and the Infamous Signal Chat

Ben Shapiro | March 28, 2025

This week, all hell broke loose in the media when Jeffrey Goldberg, left-leaning editor of The Atlantic, revealed that he had been accidentally included in… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Yes, Non-Citizen Terror Supporters Should Leave

Ben Shapiro | March 13, 2025

It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas sympathizers. Yet this simple truth seems to confound a wide variety of commentators… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Democrats in Disarray

Ben Shapiro | March 07, 2025

This week, I had the opportunity to attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress as a guest of Speaker of the… Read More

EconomyCommentary

The Top Task for Team Trump

Ben Shapiro | February 27, 2025

President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Ending the Taxpayer-Funded Blue Pipeline

Ben Shapiro | February 06, 2025

This week, a massive firefight broke out between Democrats and Team Trump over the White House takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The Chinese Sputnik

Ben Shapiro | January 30, 2025

This week, China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta, and Google. The fact… Read More

PoliticsNews

A New Age Begins

Ben Shapiro | January 24, 2025

Donald Trump is now officially the 47th president of the United States. Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 was marred by violence from the Left; it… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

A Breath of Fresh Air

Ben Shapiro | January 16, 2025

This week, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees began their Senate confirmation hearings. After four years of the administrative malaise of the Biden administration, the nominees proved… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Age of Censorship Is Ending

Ben Shapiro | January 09, 2025

This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be revising its censorship policies to accord with his older vision of… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The Dumbest Fallacy in Foreign Policy

Ben Shapiro | December 20, 2024

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Devils Are Here

Ben Shapiro | December 12, 2024

This week, a deranged 26-year-old anti-capitalist allegedly shot to death the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, on the streets of New York. The alleged shooter… Read More

InternationalCommentary

MAGA v. 2.0: How a Trumpian Milei Is Making Argentina Great Again

Ben Shapiro | December 05, 2024

This week, I visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, to speak about free markets and socialism at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It was a fitting location:… Read More

InternationalCommentary

A World of Leverage

Ben Shapiro | November 29, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump understands, better than any recent American president, one simple rule when it comes to dealing with the world: Leverage matters and ought… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Every Political Action Has Its Equal and Opposite Reaction. Trump’s Backlash Has Been Well-Earned.

Ben Shapiro | November 21, 2024

Isaac Newton’s third law of motion famously states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: If you push an object, for… Read More

 InternationalCommentary

The Trump Foreign Policy Doctrine Doesn’t Get Credit It’s Due

Ben Shapiro | November 14, 2024

Donald Trump’s foreign policy was, during his first term, not only successful; it was the most successful foreign policy of any president since Ronald Reagan…. Read More

    PoliticsCommentary

Why Trump Won

Ben Shapiro | November 09, 2024

Donald Trump. He’s back. After the most dramatic election cycle in modern American history, Trump won a sweeping victory, moving every single state in America… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

‘Final Argument’: An Open-and-Shut Case

Ben Shapiro | October 31, 2024

This week, I had the pleasure of sitting down for a cordial debate with Sam Harris, host of the “Making Sense” podcast, to discuss the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why Trump at McDonald’s Matters

Ben Shapiro | October 24, 2024

This week, Donald Trump set the political world afire with an appearance at a McDonald’s in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, he donned the famous McDonald’s… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How the Harris Boomlet Went Bust

Ben Shapiro | October 16, 2024

When Kamala Harris first jumped into the 2024 race, the joy was palpable. Every major Democrat leaped to celebrate. The legacy media uncorked the Champagne…. Read More

International Commentary

History Returned With a Vengeance a Year Ago on Oct. 7

Ben Shapiro | October 09, 2024

In the West, we are on vacation from history. That’s because we are living on the interest earned by our parents and grandparents. The European… Read More

International Commentary

Israel Illustrates the Power of Victory

Ben Shapiro | October 03, 2024

On Oct. 1, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched some 181 ballistic missiles at the state of Israel. Most were shot down. Those that weren’t… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Greatest Scandal in Modern American History That No One Cares About

Ben Shapiro | September 25, 2024

A little over eight weeks ago, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, despite being the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee and only… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Another Month, Another Trump Assassination Attempt

Ben Shapiro | September 20, 2024

This week, a would-be assassin aimed a rifle at Donald Trump through the fence at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida…. Read More

PoliticsNews

The Cipher and Her Praetorian Guard 

Ben Shapiro | September 12, 2024

In the lead-up to this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the polls showed a dead heat, both nationally and in seven… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

The Evil of Cowardice

Ben Shapiro | September 04, 2024

On Saturday night, the Israeli military made a macabre and horrifying discovery: the slain bodies of six hostages taken by Hamas, including American citizen Hersh… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Harris’ Strategy? Avoid Serious Scrutiny as Long as Possible. Will It Work?

Ben Shapiro | August 28, 2024

To call the past eight weeks in presidential politics unprecedented would be a wild understatement. It was just over two months ago when President Joe… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Kamala Harris’ Authoritarian ‘Joy’

Ben Shapiro | August 21, 2024

We’ve been told, over and over and over again, that Kamala Harris is the candidate of “joy.” Tim Walz, upon accepting his vice presidential nomination,… Read More