Articles by Ben Shapiro

SocietyCommentary

Will Smith’s Slap Heard Around World

Ben Shapiro | March 30, 2022

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

A New Way to Fight Woke Corporations

Ben Shapiro | March 23, 2022

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

America’s Enemies Find Weakness at Every Turn

Ben Shapiro | March 16, 2022

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

Environmentalist NIMBYism Means Foreign Policy Disaster

Ben Shapiro | March 09, 2022

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

Putin Wakes up the Western Ostrich

Ben Shapiro | March 02, 2022

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

The War on Parents Continues

Ben Shapiro | February 23, 2022

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

Canada Goes Tyrannical

Ben Shapiro | February 16, 2022

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

Left’s Attack on Joe Rogan an Attack on Dissent

Ben Shapiro | February 09, 2022

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

Whoopi Goldberg Says Holocaust Wasn’t About Targeting Jews. Here’s Why That Matters.

Ben Shapiro | February 02, 2022

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

COVID-19’s Impact of Expressive Individualism

Ben Shapiro | January 26, 2022

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

The Quest to Destroy Work

Ben Shapiro | January 19, 2022

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

The Great Re-sorting Is Here

Ben Shapiro | January 12, 2022

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

Democrats’ Exploitation of Jan. 6 Gives Away Their Game

Ben Shapiro | January 05, 2022

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

COVID-19 in 2021: The Year of Living Unreasonably

Ben Shapiro | December 29, 2021

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

The Big Government COVID-19 Lie

Ben Shapiro | December 22, 2021

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

The Death of California

Ben Shapiro | December 14, 2021

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

The Left’s War With Biological Reality

Ben Shapiro | December 08, 2021

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

An ‘Abundance of Caution’ Mentality Leads to Tyranny

Ben Shapiro | December 01, 2021

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

The Consequences of Leftist Crime Policies

Ben Shapiro | November 26, 2021

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

The Narrative Is the Priority

Ben Shapiro | November 17, 2021

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

So-Called Meritocracy Isn’t the Problem

Ben Shapiro | November 15, 2021

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

Punishing Achievement Punishes Everyone

Ben Shapiro | October 28, 2021

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

Risk Is Necessary for a Healthy Civilization

Ben Shapiro | October 25, 2021

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

US Should Be Booming. Why Are We Stagnating?

Ben Shapiro | October 13, 2021

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

What If Political ‘Polarization’ Isn’t the Big Problem?

Ben Shapiro | October 06, 2021

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

No, Government Spending Isn’t ‘Zero Cost’

Ben Shapiro | September 29, 2021

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

‘Pay Your Fair Share’ Taxation Isn’t About Actual Fairness

Ben Shapiro | September 22, 2021

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

Beware Our Elective Monarchy

Ben Shapiro | September 15, 2021

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

PoliticsCommentary

America’s Slow Suicide

Ben Shapiro | September 01, 2021

Greek mythology tells the tale of Erysichthon, the powerful king of Thessaly. The story goes that Erysichthon, seeking wood, ordered the trees in a sacred… Read More

Health CareCommentary

Welcome to the Forever Pandemic

Ben Shapiro | August 25, 2021

This week, as President Joe Biden attempted desperately to distract from his ongoing surrender in Afghanistan and the attendant chaos in its wake, the White… Read More