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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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
PoliticsCommentary
Joe Rogan must be stopped. This is the consensus from all of the wisest and most compassionate voices in our society. According to the White… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Former award-winning actress and highly decorated blowhard Whoopi Goldberg this week made a fool of herself. This came as no surprise; Goldberg does that quite… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Philosopher Robert Bellah once posited that modern Western human beings identify themselves in a peculiar way: as emotional cores, surrounded by baser material. According to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This past week, after spending time vacationing in the disease-ridden hellscape known as Florida, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., came down with COVID-19. It was a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, the incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams—the supposed rational corrective to uber-radical outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio—announced that he would allow legislation… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This year, Jan. 6 will be commemorated with all the ballyhoo and rigmarole Democrats and their media allies can muster. CNN plans an entire special… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In 2020, Americans learned that if emergency dictated, we could lock down, mask up, and blow out spending to temporarily stymie the impact of a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the presidential election, Joe Biden tweeted, “I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m not going to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Victor Hugo told the tale of Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer falsely accused of attempted murder, set to be hanged… Read More
SocietyCommentary
As the Supreme Court determines whether to preserve the court-created “right to abortion” under Roe v. Wade, those on the feminist left have gone into… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, governments around the globe spun into full-scale panic thanks to the revelation of the so-called omicron variant of COVID-19. As of this writing,… Read More
LawCommentary
This week, a 39-year-old black man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, plowed a maroon Ford Escape into a Christmas parade of children and older women. Five people… Read More
Commentary
According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist. According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was an active shooter. According to the media, Kyle… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In 1958, British sociologist Michael Young coined the term “meritocracy” in his satirical novel, called “The Rise of the Meritocracy.” Its point was simple: When… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This week, Democrats settled on an area of apparent commonality: the desire to eat the rich. According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, “Senator [Ron] Wyden… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Human beings aren’t great at assessing risk. In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky posited a new branch of behavioral economics, which they titled… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This week, the Biden administration received just the latest slap in the face from cruel reality: An economic report showing just 194,000 jobs added in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The University of Virginia Center for Politics this week released a poll surveying Americans’ feelings about their political opponents. According to the poll, 80% of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This week, President Joe Biden made the incredible statement—sycophantically repeated by the press—that his $3.5 trillion budget bill, which includes major spending initiatives on everything… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Joe Biden this week attempted to inject life into his ailing presidency by dragging out of the closet the hoariest of political cliches: “fairness”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In 1629, frustrated by the unwillingness of Parliament to grant him taxation power, King Charles I of England dissolved the body and had nine members… Read More
