Articles by Ben Shapiro

SocietyCommentary

The Slippery Slope Never Ends

Ben Shapiro | December 19, 2022

In 2006, then-Sen. Joe Biden ranted against the supposed irrelevance of a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage in federal law as one man, one… Read More

SocietyCommentary

‘Respect for Marriage Act’: You Will Be Made to Celebrate

Ben Shapiro | December 08, 2022

In March 2013, nearly a decade ago, in this space, I made a prediction. “Within the next few months,” I wrote, “Justice Anthony Kennedy will… Read More

 Commentary

China Is Abusing Apple. So, Why Is the Left More Worried About Musk’s Twitter?

Ben Shapiro | December 01, 2022

This week, the Chinese government activated its vast censorship apparatus to prevent dissemination of news regarding thousands of citizens taking to the streets to protest… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Instead of Asking How to Stop Mass Shootings, Left Targets Social Conservatives

Ben Shapiro | November 23, 2022

This week, another evil mass shooter unleashed horror at a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding another 25. The shooter—whose name I… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

FTX Meltdown Isn’t Failure of Capitalism

Ben Shapiro | November 16, 2022

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes tale “Silver Blaze,” the detective investigates the case of a murder of a horse trainer. At first,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Understanding the Red Fizzle

Ben Shapiro | November 10, 2022

There was no red wave. There was no red tide. There was no red trickle. There was a fizzle. The 2022 midterm election fundamentals would… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why the Legacy Media Is Panicked About Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Ben Shapiro | November 02, 2022

It has now been a week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth is still audible across the legacy… Read More

SocietyCommentary

A Recipe for Societal Collapse

Ben Shapiro | October 28, 2022

This week, President Joe Biden held an interview with a TikTok influencer named Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney is a man—a former Broadway star in “The Book… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Corporate Media Is Trying to Divide Americans

Ben Shapiro | October 20, 2022

American democracy, we have been told, is in grave peril. It’s a perspective we hear echoed dozens of times per day in the mainstream media:… Read More

EnergyCommentary

America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs

Ben Shapiro | October 12, 2022

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

Would Russia Use a Nuclear Weapon?

Ben Shapiro | October 08, 2022

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

Forgetting Some Lessons of 9/11

Ben Shapiro | September 14, 2022

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

Unserious Leadership in a Serious Time

Ben Shapiro | September 07, 2022

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

Biden’s New Slur to Tar His Political Opponents

Ben Shapiro | August 31, 2022

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

How Can the Constitution Be Jettisoned? 2 Writers Share Ideas in New York Times

Ben Shapiro | August 24, 2022

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

Salman Rushdie, Iran, and Joe Biden

Ben Shapiro | August 17, 2022

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

The Day the FBI Raided Trump

Ben Shapiro | August 10, 2022

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

The Chinese Know We’re in Cold War II. It’s Time for Us to Understand the Same.

Ben Shapiro | July 27, 2022

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

Woke Academic Gobbledygook Makes You Rich and Famous

Ben Shapiro | July 13, 2022

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

Why We Can’t Have a Nice Independence Day

Ben Shapiro | July 06, 2022

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

Roe Is Dead, but Abortion Debate Reveals Rot at America’s Center

Ben Shapiro | June 29, 2022

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 Death of the Elite ‘Center’

Ben Shapiro | June 22, 2022

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

The Biden Economy Shows the Folly of ‘Experts’

Ben Shapiro | June 15, 2022

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

Sorry, Democrats: Other Opinions Exist

Ben Shapiro | June 09, 2022

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

LGBTQI+ Pride Month Caught in Its Own Contradictions

Ben Shapiro | June 01, 2022

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

The Elitists Who Want to Rule the World

Ben Shapiro | May 25, 2022

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

Media’s Big Lie About the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ and Conservatism

Ben Shapiro | May 18, 2022

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

The Left’s Chilling View of Children

Ben Shapiro | May 13, 2022

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

Leftists See Much More Than Abortion at Stake in Dobbs Decision

Ben Shapiro | May 04, 2022

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

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Reveals the Left for What It Is

Ben Shapiro | April 27, 2022

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