Articles by Ben Shapiro

SocietyCommentary

Understand Evil or Perish by Its Hand

Ben Shapiro | November 02, 2023

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

Look at Videos, Pictures of Hamas Terror in Israel. It’s What Evil Looks Like.

Ben Shapiro | October 11, 2023

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

YouTube’s Unfair Preemptive Strike on Russell Brand

Ben Shapiro | September 20, 2023

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

How Burning Man Became Uncool

Ben Shapiro | September 07, 2023

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

The Law of Unintended Consequences Can’t Be Repealed

Ben Shapiro | August 30, 2023

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

Joe Biden Is a Narcissist, Not an Empath

Ben Shapiro | August 23, 2023

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

The Highly Dangerous Georgia Indictments

Ben Shapiro | August 16, 2023

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

The Barack Obama Cover-Up

Ben Shapiro | August 10, 2023

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

Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind

Ben Shapiro | August 02, 2023

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

SocietyCommentary

The Real Reason Republicans Love America More Than Democrats

Ben Shapiro | July 06, 2023

What, precisely, is it about America you love? That’s the question this July 4 as just 29% of Democrats say they’re extremely proud of the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Parental ‘Love’

Ben Shapiro | June 29, 2023

This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives revealed the testimony of an IRS whistleblower who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation. That whistleblower had… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

When Science Became Political, It Lost Americans’ Trust

Ben Shapiro | June 23, 2023

Institutional trust is built over the course of years. Decades. Centuries. Dishonesty takes just a moment to destroy institutional trust. This week, Dr. Peter Hotez,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Dangerous Trump Indictment Precedent

Ben Shapiro | June 15, 2023

This week, a Rubicon was crossed: The former president of the United States and current Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump, was indicted… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Revolution at the Heart of ‘Pride’

Ben Shapiro | June 07, 2023

June 1 marked the advent of Pride Month—the most important sacrament of the American secular religious calendar. During Pride Month, public schools across the nation… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Our Fake Spending Debates

Ben Shapiro | June 01, 2023

This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden cut a deal to raise the debt limit. The breakthrough came after… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Will Elon Musk Break the Legacy Media Stranglehold?

Ben Shapiro | May 24, 2023

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to announce his 2024 presidential candidacy on Twitter Spaces, the newest feature on Elon Musk’s Twitter. Musk himself… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Worst Political Scandal in American History?

Ben Shapiro | May 17, 2023

This week, special counsel John Durham released a 316-page report detailing the origins of Operation Crossfire Hurricane—the FBI’s investigation into supposed connections between the Trump… Read More

SocietyCommentary

When You Don’t Police Crime, Civilians Will

Ben Shapiro | May 04, 2023

This week, the media found its latest iteration of its favorite narrative: white man harms black man. That iteration featured a 24-year-old white Marine from… Read More

LawCommentary

Ralph Yarl Case Highlights the Left’s Favorite Lie

Ben Shapiro | April 20, 2023

This week, a 16-year-old boy named Ralph Yarl—black—accidentally rang the doorbell of an 84-year-old white man, Andrew Lester. According to reports, Lester then shot Yarl… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Palestinian Arab Terrorism Gets a ‘Moral Equivalence’ Pass

Ben Shapiro | April 13, 2023

This past week, Jews all over the world marked Passover, the celebration of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. As we congregated around seder tables to… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Transgender Shooter Reveals Perverse World of Leftist Ideology

Ben Shapiro | March 29, 2023

The legacy media have a preset narrative machine when it comes to mass shootings. That narrative machine takes into account the identities of the shooter… Read More

EconomyCommentary

From Liquidity to Insolvency, Big Government Shows How to Crash Economy

Ben Shapiro | March 15, 2023

We are in a looming financial crisis, even if we don’t want to see it. Silicon Valley Bank was, according to Moody’s, worthy of an… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

What We Weren’t Shown About Jan. 6

Ben Shapiro | March 10, 2023

Jan. 6 was, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Joe Biden Turns America’s Government Into Wokeness Inc.

Ben Shapiro | February 23, 2023

As Presidents Day weekend loomed last week, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest,… Read More

 Commentary

Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds. The Social Left Is to Blame.

Ben Shapiro | February 15, 2023

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that our nation’s young girls are in a state of absolute emotional… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Satan Is So Hot Right Now

Ben Shapiro | February 08, 2023

This week, the Grammys were held in Los Angeles. They featured a star-studded cavalcade of singers who can’t sing, songsters who require a team of… Read More

SocietyCommentary

When Black Police Officers Kill a Black Man, That’s White Supremacy

Ben Shapiro | February 01, 2023

This week, tape emerged from Memphis, Tennessee, of five black police officers engaging in the beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man. Nichols was… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Racial Reparations Will Solve Nothing

Ben Shapiro | January 18, 2023

This week, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a report calling on the city to pay every black resident $5 million and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Death of Eternal Truths and the New Paganism

Ben Shapiro | January 04, 2023

Last week, Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church. His life… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Left’s Big Pitch: Embrace a Worse Life in the Name of Equality

Ben Shapiro | December 22, 2022

This week, The New York Times released a long expose of the shortcomings of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. Long cherished as a crown… Read More