Articles by Ben Shapiro

SocietyCommentary

What the Coronavirus Should Teach Us

Ben Shapiro | March 11, 2020

As the markets have plummeted over global fears surrounding the fallout from the new coronavirus, political pundits have taken up the call: Find some meaning… Read More

SocietyCommentary

When ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing

Ben Shapiro | January 29, 2020

This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully… Read More

EconomyCommentary

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez School of Economics

Ben Shapiro | January 22, 2020

On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sat for a discussion with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. She dropped a number of shocking statements—statements that elicited nothing but… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Perpetual Intersectional Revolution Eats Its Own

Ben Shapiro | January 15, 2020

In 2008, Democrats nominated for president a first-term U.S. senator with no serious legislative experience, Barack Obama. They nominated him over the long-championed, long-celebrated presumptive… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Trump’s Iran Policy Isn’t the Problem; Obama’s Was

Ben Shapiro | January 08, 2020

President Donald Trump launched a global round of teeth gnashing when he ordered the killing of the greatest terrorist leader in the modern Middle East,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Left Ignores the ‘Wrong’ Kind of Anti-Semitism

Ben Shapiro | January 01, 2020

In October 2018, during Sabbath morning services, a white supremacist attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 people and wounding another six…. Read More

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