Articles by Ben Shapiro

Health CareCommentary

When Does COVID-19 Panic End?

Ben Shapiro | August 04, 2021

Two weeks to slow the spread. That was the original rationale for the lockdowns, masking, and social distancing: Prevent transmission of the coronavirus so that… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How America’s Authoritarians Use Empathy to Rule

Ben Shapiro | July 28, 2021

America has a crisis of empathy. That crisis isn’t expressed as lack of charitable giving: Americans give approximately seven times what Europeans do to charity… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Lying About ‘Misinformation’ to Justify Tyranny

Ben Shapiro | July 21, 2021

This week, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had any message for social media amid a dramatic rise in the number of diagnosed COVID-19… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Foreign Dissidents Understand About the American Flag

Ben Shapiro | July 14, 2021

Thousands of Cuban dissidents marched Sunday against the repressive communist tyranny that has subjugated the Cuban people for three generations. They chanted “Libertad!” and called… Read More

EducationCommentary

Stop Surrendering Education to the Radical Left

Ben Shapiro | July 07, 2021

This Independence Day, a poll from Issues & Insights revealed that only 36% of adults aged 18-24 said they were “proud to be American,” compared… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Yes, It’s Ungrateful to Turn Your Back on the National Anthem

Ben Shapiro | June 30, 2021

This week, heretofore nearly anonymous hammer thrower Gwen Berry made international headlines when, during the podium ceremony for winning bronze in an Olympic trial, she… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Movement Against Critical Race Theory Is Deeply Necessary

Ben Shapiro | June 24, 2021

According to the establishment media, critical race theory is a distraction. It is a right-wing smear. It is a conservative attempt to quash the dark… Read More

LawCommentary

How Blue City Governance Is Destroying Blue Cities

Ben Shapiro | June 16, 2021

This week, a video from a San Francisco Walgreens went viral on Twitter. The video depicted a man standing next to his bicycle, loading up… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Definition of Courage Has Shifted Since Normandy

Ben Shapiro | June 09, 2021

Last Sunday marked the 77th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. On that day, Operation Overlord began, launching the Allied invasion of Europe that… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Muddled Thinking of ‘Anti-Racism’

Ben Shapiro | June 02, 2021

This week, a clip of America’s most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of “How to… Read More

InternationalCommentary

China Isn’t Winning. The West Is Forfeiting.

Ben Shapiro | May 27, 2021

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with “symptoms consistent… Read More

InternationalCommentary

If You Side With Hamas, Your Antisemitism Is Showing

Ben Shapiro | May 21, 2021

For the past two weeks, rockets have been fired into civilian areas of Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. Hamas’ charter openly calls for the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Biden Sets Everything on Fire

Ben Shapiro | May 12, 2021

Joe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency.  He succeeded an unpopular figure. He was inaugurated just two weeks after the dramatic… Read More

LawCommentary

Due Process Is Opposite of Social Justice

Ben Shapiro | May 05, 2021

It has been two weeks since the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Circular Logic of Systemic Racism

Ben Shapiro | April 28, 2021

Last week, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Bigotry of No Expectations

Ben Shapiro | April 21, 2021

Editor’s note: This column was filed before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in George… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Fight Over Identity

Ben Shapiro | April 14, 2021

America has been wrecked on the shoals of identity. Identity politics has been characterized casually as a form of tribalism: Americans grouping themselves according to… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Conservatives Must Fight Corporations That Kowtow to Left

Ben Shapiro | April 07, 2021

This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia. The lies at issue revolved around… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

For the Left, Bigotry Is a Tool

Ben Shapiro | March 24, 2021

A white man last week shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Biden’s Military Declares War on Tucker Carlson

Ben Shapiro | March 17, 2021

President Joe Biden’s military last week declared its first war … on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson had committed the great sin of pointing… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why Are We Banning Books? Blame Worship of Our Self-Identity

Ben Shapiro | March 10, 2021

This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would stop the sale and distribution of six classic volumes from the great children’s author. Those volumes, said… Read More

SocietyCommentary

When Lies Matter More Than Facts

Ben Shapiro | March 03, 2021

This week, The New York Times ran a long piece re-reporting a supposed race scandal from Smith College. The scandal, originally reported in midsummer 2018,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Authoritarian Left on the March

Ben Shapiro | February 24, 2021

This week, Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., sent out a series of letters to America’s largest communications corporations: AT&T, Alphabet Inc., Cox… Read More

SocietyCommentary

It’s Time to Uncancel Americans

Ben Shapiro | February 17, 2021

Actress Gina Carano made headlines last week when Disney+ and Lucasfilm decided to cancel her from their hit series “The Mandalorian” over controversial social media… Read More

SocietyCommentary

When the Hateful Think They Are the Virtuous

Ben Shapiro | February 11, 2021

This week, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, unleashed the most perverse column in recent memory. The title: “What can you do… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Inequality of ‘Equity’

Ben Shapiro | February 03, 2021

President Joe Biden took office pledging a return to unity and decency. A new era of good feelings is at hand, we were informed by… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Media May Ignore It, but Biden Presidency Is Already Radical

Ben Shapiro | January 27, 2021

For four years, we were informed by our establishment media that President Donald Trump’s behavior was “not normal.” The abnormality of Trump’s behavior became a… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Get Ready for 4 Years of Media Sycophancy

Ben Shapiro | January 20, 2021

On Sunday, Jan. 17, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down with Jane Pauley of CBS News “Sunday Morning.” Pauley treated Harris to a full-on journalistic… Read More

LawCommentary

The Lies of Both Sides Are Tearing America Apart

Ben Shapiro | January 13, 2021

Last week, the Capitol was breached by a group of fringe Trump supporters who had bought into a series of lies: the lie that President… Read More

Health CareCommentary

The Perversion of Science

Ben Shapiro | December 23, 2020

America’s scientists are essentially miracle workers. Within mere months, they have developed highly effective vaccines for COVID-19. By year’s end, millions of Americans will have… Read More