Ben Shapiro

​​What is the real reason we are seeing chaos in the streets of Los Angeles?One protester explained why exactly this is happening. If you want to know what drives the mindset of the rioters, then you really should take the time to listen to the people who are rioting, who are attempting to attack police officers and ICE agents.This protester was, of course, masked and wearing sunglasses. He bloviated, “Everybody has the same enemy. From L.A. to Africa to Palestine to Vietnam. We all have the same enemy. There’s one enemy. And it is not me, and it is not you, and it is not them. We are not the enemies of each other.”He pointed to the police, declaring, “They are the enemy. There’s only one enemy. And we all have to work together in unison to fight this one enemy.”Another protester interjected, “That’s right. Capitalism, imperialism, and Zionism.”“The faster we grow, the more we grow as a people, the quicker we can get to this revolution and overturn this motherf***er and have real peopl

There is a reason I left Los Angeles.As long as I can recall living in LA, every time you would drive past a Home Depot or a similar store, there would be a crowd of illegal immigrants who were waiting for work.You do feel bad for these people. Many of them have crossed the border in an attempt to seek work and send remittances back home, and many of them are also on welfare. It turns out that an enormous number of people who come across the border end up engaging in things that leech off of the taxpayer dime; they end up as a net cost to the taxpayer. They take part in the public education system if they have kids who they bring across the border; they end up using medical services.But the issue is this: It’s not about whether these people are nice or mean, whether they are good or bad.They have broken the law. They crossed the border illegally. And that is just the ones who otherwise are law-abiding.And then there are a bunch of people who are not otherwise law-abiding. There are many people in Southern C

The Supreme Court has now ruled in favor of the idea that you don’t have to be a member of a minority group in order to be discriminated against.That is obviously true. The fact of the matter is that you can certainly be a white, straight male and be discriminated against, or, in the case reviewed by the Supreme Court, a white, straight female.According to The New York Times:The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled in favor of a straight woman who twice lost positions to gay workers, saying an appeals court had been wrong to require her to meet a heightened burden in seeking to prove workplace discrimination because she was a member of a majority group.The decision came two years after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions programs in higher education and amid the Trump administration’s fierce efforts to root out programs that promote diversity. The ruling will place further pressure on employers and others to eliminate affirmative action and other initiatives that seek to pro

You recall Greta Thunberg when she was a not-particularly-cute child, and we weren’t allowed to make jokes about her not being particularly cute because she was a child.Well, now she’s 22 years old, so I can say whatever the hell I want about her: She is an obnoxious brat. She was always obnoxious.Thunberg first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was eight; she said she stopped talking, stopped eating, and lost 22 lbs. over it at age 11.Instead of going to school and getting the treatment she probably deserved, her father got her treatment, took her out of school, and put her on camera repeatedly. He said, “She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest and be happy.”She has spent the last ten years gallivanting around the globe and protesting. She started with climate change, where she famously lectured all the adults for not doing enough, in her humble opinion, to stop the world from getting warmer.Just kidding, she wasn’t humble, she was obnoxious.But it was that v

It is amazing to be here in Budapest. I want to talk today about the battle for the heart of Western civilization. But to do that, we have to start with a definition of what Western civilization actually is.Western civilization, rooted in Man’s individual liberty and his collective duty; in his freedom of speech and in his duty to act virtuously; in his property rights and in his familial obligations; in the right to the equal application of the law; is unique. It is the wellspring of virtually all human prosperity and all human progress.Western civilization did not come from nowhere. It came from Biblical wisdom; the wisdom of thousands of years of Judeo-Christian tradition. It came from the Bible’s admonition that we ought to seek truth through the light of reason. When we cut ourselves off from the sources of our own civilization, our civilization decays.And make no mistake, our civilization is now in the midst of decay.We can see that decay in the anarchic marchers in the streets, chanting on

The Court of International Trade, which is a court that nobody has ever heard of, moved to block President Trump’s tariffs in a “sweeping ruling,” according to Reuters, that “found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across the board duties on imports from U.S. trading partners.”The court suggested that the law under which the President of the United States was declaring these tariffs was not, in fact, capable of carrying those tariffs because the president used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which gives the president the power to regulate imports during certain emergency situations.But those emergency situations do not actually extend to issues such as a trade deficit. Big trade deficits do not amount to a national emergency.That’s what the court found — and the court isn’t wrong. If the president actually wants to impose tariffs, there are other legal mechanisms he can pursue, but this should be in the purview of Congress. It always shoul

On Thursday, President Trump took a victory lap over the House passing his “one big, beautiful bill.”He wrote on Truth Social:“THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL” has PASSED the House of Representatives! This is arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of our Country! The Bill includes MASSIVE Tax CUTS, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, Tax Deductions when you purchase an American Made Vehicle, along with strong Border Security measures, Pay Raises for our ICE and Border Patrol Agents, Funding for the Golden Dome, “TRUMP Savings Accounts” for newborn babies, and much more! Great job by Speaker Mike Johnson, and the House Leadership, and thank you to every Republican who voted YES on this Historic Bill! Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! There is no time to waste. The Democrats have lost control of themselves, and are aimlessly wandering around, showing no confi

There was a terrorist attack on Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The attack occurred outside the Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals, hosted by the American Jewish Committee. Two staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, a German-Israeli dual citizen and a devout evangelical Christian who had immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were shot at close range. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring to propose to Milgrim when they got back to Jerusalem.They were murdered. They were murdered by a man who was shouting, “Free Palestine.” Video shows the man chanting in full campus mode, “Free, free Palestine,” which, by the way,  is a good indicator of what the “Free Palestine, Globalize The Intifada” movement is actually about.This is the pro-Palestinian cause in a nutshell that’s been happening on college campuses across America: Standing for a presumptive terror state with genoc

The Joe Biden senility and cancer scandal is not going anywhere anytime soon. The reason is because it’s not just a scandal about the Joe Biden family and the people immediately surrounding Joe Biden, it’s a scandal about the Democratic Party writ large, as well as the media. The same Democrat media complex that has kept Democrats relevant and victorious for decades. But time after time after time, particularly over the course of the last five years, the Democrat media narratives have fallen completely apart.Everything they have labeled a conspiracy theory has not only not been a conspiracy theory, it’s also turned out to be largely true. It was the Democrats in the media who claimed that Donald Trump was a cat’s paw of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and that he’d been elected in 2016 based on Russia’s gaming of the election. That turned into a four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump and everyone surrounding him, surmising that Trump was almost certainly on the R

What we are watching right now is the uncovering of one of the most cynical scandals in the history of American politics. It really is amazing.Let’s begin with this: Obviously, our hearts go out to the former president of the United States, Joe Biden, who has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer that has apparently moved from the prostate all the way into his bones. This diagnosis has now been revealed just months after he left office. Everyone has been expressing their good wishes for the Biden family and for Joe Biden personally. The statement went out at 3:56 p.m. Sunday afternoon, after Biden was seen by medical professionals earlier last week who found a prostate nodule. He was diagnosed Friday with stage four prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone, an aggressive form of the disease. On the so-called Gleason score, he has a nine on a ten-point scale.That doesn’t mean that he is definitely terminal from prostate cancer, because at his age, it can move slowly. But once you have canc