Articles by Ben Shapiro

SocietyCommentary

The Right to Destroy Cities

Ben Shapiro | December 18, 2019

This week, the Supreme Court effectively mandated continued legal tolerance for homelessness across major cities on the West Coast of the United States. The 9th… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Liberals Setting the Stage to Claim 2020 Election Results Illegitimate

Ben Shapiro | December 11, 2019

In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Democrats fretted openly about the possibility that Donald Trump, being a rather poor sport, might refuse to acknowledge… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Rise of Social Liberalism Disproportionately Hurts Lower-Income Americans

Ben Shapiro | December 04, 2019

This week, Paul Krugman of The New York Times posited a theory: Red states cause depression and suicide. In a column titled “America’s Red State… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How to Disunite America

Ben Shapiro | November 20, 2019

This week, Chick-fil-A, the immensely popular Christian-owned chicken sandwich giant, caved to the cultural left. For years, the left targeted Chick-fil-A, dating back to the… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Are Conservative Immigration Restrictionists Racist?

Ben Shapiro | November 13, 2019

This week, The Atlantic released its newest issue, provocatively titled “How to Stop a Civil War.” Leading its collection of essays is a fascinating piece… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The ‘Lynching’ Controversy and the Death of Common Language

Ben Shapiro | October 25, 2019

In the Bible, the people of Babel unite in fighting God; they decide to build a massive tower to challenge God’s supremacy. God, annoyed by… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The NBA Proves That Corporate Social Activism Is All About the Dollars

Ben Shapiro | October 10, 2019

In recent years, the NBA has become famously political. During the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NBA permitted players to wear slogan-printed… Read More

PoliticsNews

Why Impeachment Isn’t Merited

Ben Shapiro | October 04, 2019

President Donald Trump is a bull in a china shop. He says inadvisable things to inadvisable people, mainly because he is inadvisable—literally no one can… Read More

EnergyCommentary

Catastrophic Thinking Without Solutions

Ben Shapiro | September 25, 2019

In July, Adam Grant, organizational psychologist at Wharton Business School, tweeted: “Agendas aren’t driven by problems. They’re driven by solutions. Calling out what’s wrong without… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Did We Learn the Lesson of 9/11?

Ben Shapiro | September 11, 2019

It’s now been nearly a full generation since Sept. 11, 2001. There are people currently serving in the U.S. military who weren’t born when that… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Media’s Intersectional Embrace of Anti-Semitism

Ben Shapiro | August 21, 2019

Imagine two sitting Republican congresspeople planned a trip to a foreign country in conjunction with a nongovernmental organization. Imagine that particular nongovernmental organization had a… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why We Embrace Conspiracy Theories

Ben Shapiro | August 14, 2019

This week, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell from an apparent hanging, the day after a court unsealed a cache… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why Can’t We Unify in the Face of Evil?

Ben Shapiro | August 07, 2019

This should be easy. We’re all on the same side. When a white supremacist terrorist shoots up a Walmart filled with innocents in El Paso,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Baltimore, Land of Political Footballs

Ben Shapiro | August 05, 2019

Back in April 2015, a young black man named Freddie Gray was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department. He’d run from the police, had an… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why the Left Is Reconsidering Al Franken

Ben Shapiro | July 24, 2019

On Monday, The New Yorker printed a lengthy piece by reporter Jane Mayer about the sad fate of former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. Franken resigned… Read More

EducationCommentary

Freedom From Consequences Isn’t Freedom

Ben Shapiro | June 26, 2019

On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., desperate to revive his flagging campaign, proposed a far-reaching plan to wipe out all student debt. That plan falls… Read More

EducationCommentary

Harvard’s Capitulation to the Mob

Ben Shapiro | June 19, 2019

This week, Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv announced that Harvard University has withdrawn his acceptance to the college. In the aftermath of the mass shooting at… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Social Media Companies Need to Stand Up Against Left

Ben Shapiro | June 12, 2019

This week, The New York Times ran a massive piece detailing the supposed radicalization of one Caleb Cain. Cain moved from political liberalism toward self-ascribed… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why Celebrity Politics Matters

Ben Shapiro | June 05, 2019

Celebrities emerged from their Hollywood cocoon this week to sound off on abortion law … in Georgia. If this sounds bizarre, that’s because it is:… Read More

InternationalCommentary

What We Can Learn From the European Union

Ben Shapiro | May 30, 2019

The European Union Parliament elections this week provided a shock to the system for the center-right and center-left coalition in European politics: The big winners… Read More

 SocietyCommentary

No, Abortion Isn’t a Constitutional Right

Ben Shapiro | May 22, 2019

In the past several weeks, a bevy of states have passed extensive new restrictions on abortion. Alabama has effectively banned abortion from point of conception…. Read More

LawCommentary

The Manufactured Constitutional Crisis

Ben Shapiro | May 15, 2019

Over the past several weeks, Democrats have spent their time defending the absurd notion that America is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. What,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Once Again, Coastal Elites Undermine Our Values

Ben Shapiro | May 08, 2019

This week, the Met Gala took place in New York City. The event has always been a showpiece for celebrities seeking to make a splash,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar Isn’t Incitement

Ben Shapiro | April 17, 2019

A couple of years ago, I spoke at the University of California, Berkeley. My presence was apparently so offensive to a particular group of people… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Open Borders Agenda Rears Its Ugly Head

Ben Shapiro | April 10, 2019

This week, President Donald Trump fired his homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen. Nielsen was, according to media and the Democrats, a monster of the highest… Read More

LawCommentary

In ‘White Man’s Culture’ Remarks, Biden Shows How Little He Knows About History

Ben Shapiro | April 03, 2019

Last week, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Biden Courage Awards ceremony in preparation for his presidential campaign launch. There, in an attempt… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Too Many Institutions Aren’t Worthy of Our Trust

Ben Shapiro | March 27, 2019

This week, special counsel Robert Mueller released his long-awaited report on alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to impact the 2016… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How to Silence Debate, New Zealand Edition

Ben Shapiro | March 20, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has unleashed a barrage of openly anti-Semitic commentary. She suggested that Israel had “hypnotized the world.” She recently suggested that Jewish… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Liberals Forget: Before the Welfare State, Americans Took Care of Each Other

Ben Shapiro | March 13, 2019

Over the weekend, Democratic fresh face and socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spoke at the South by Southwest conference. While sitting amidst the enormous… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Venezuela and the Myth of Kinder, Gentler Socialism

Ben Shapiro | February 27, 2019

Venezuela is a socialist country. Venezuela is also a dictatorship. Currently, Venezuela has fallen into open violence and complete chaos, with the strongman Nicolas Maduro… Read More