Ben Shapiro

O.J. Simpson died on Thursday at the age of 76, and the media didn’t quite know what to do. They didn’t know what to do because O.J. Simpson was a murderer, and everyone knows he was a murderer. But he spent the last half of his life being treated by some in the media as ...

Democrats are going to try to shift the entire election so it becomes about abortion. Donald Trump made a very savvy political move in dissociating himself from the issue entirely; he said that the federal government should not be involved in the abortion issue. Though I am strenuously against abortion, the reality is that the ...

Deep stupidity has consequences in the real world. That is particularly true in the realm of foreign policy. In domestic policy, you can be pretty stupid, but we have some rather solid checks and balances constitutionally from the local and state levels all the way up to the federal government. Stupidity very often can be ...

Western civilization has a major problem: Every societal ill that had been taken off the table by generations of received wisdom has now come back and come roaring back to life stronger than ever. The latest example of this is exemplified in a piece by Rupa Subramanya in Bari Weiss’ Free Press that speaks of ...

Sunday was a deeply religious day for the Biden administration. They celebrated their religion: the religion of deep, insane progressivism. Sunday was Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar. And the Biden administration decided it was necessary to put out messaging over the weekend, including on Easter Sunday, about the “Trans Day of Visibility.” ...

More information has been revealed on the death of Nex Benedict, the 16-year-old girl whose death was exploited by the media to pretend anti-trans bigotry led to her death. Originally, the media suggested she was gender non-binary. They claimed she was abused by other students at her high school, beaten up in a bathroom, and ...

When you cater to crazy people, you end up with a crazier country. And you deserve to lose if you decide to cater to the crazy. That’s true on every side of the political aisle. All the American people want is some semblance of normalcy. That’s all they want. They’re begging for it. Some semblance ...

RFK Jr. continues to poll shockingly well for a third-party candidate. He’s in the high single digits or low double digits. Those are really good numbers for a third-party candidate at this point in time. Here’s the question: Who is he pulling from: Trump or Biden? The assumption was that he was pulling from both ...

On Monday, Florida GOP Governor DeSantis signed legislation to get minors off of social media. Politico reported on the legislation yesterday, saying: Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday aimed at kicking minors off social media, putting the final stamp on a top Florida Republican priority that is widely expected to face legal challenges from the ...

On Sunday night on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico, explained that Mexico is going to continue to give the United States the runaround, on everything from mass illegal immigration being facilitated by the drug cartels across America through the southern border, to the importation of literally tons of fentanyl, ...

Every day under Joe Biden’s administration is a political ad that’s cut for Donald Trump. The latest example comes courtesy of America’s southern border. The border is basically wide open. There are no Border Patrol agents where they should be. They’re all too busy processing illegal immigrants and letting them into the country. On Thursday ...

Here’s how World War III could happen. To understand how, we should look historically at the closest that the world has gotten to World War III since the end of World War II. The world came closest to World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the Soviet Union attempted to ship ...

President Trump is on the hook for a $454 million judgment, according to the courts in New York. Judge Arthur Engoron presided over a stacked court in the civil fraud prosecution that was brought against Donald Trump. And it was done specifically in civil court, as opposed to criminal court, because the burden of proof ...

Donald Trump’s best friends are in the legacy media. I don’t mean that Donald Trump is friends with people in the legacy media, I mean they are helping him. Members of the legacy media have been playing this incredibly stupid game since 2015, and the reason they play this game with Trump is because they ...

I’m voting for Donald Trump in November. I’ve said this so many, many times at this point. I am not only voting for Donald Trump, but next week, I will also be co-hosting a fundraiser for him. This may come as a surprise to some of you. I want to tell you why we are ...

TikTok is getting close to being banned in the United States. That’s a good thing. The House of Representatives has now passed a bill, 352 to 65, that would effectively force TikTok to divest from its Chinese ownership, which makes perfect sense. ByteDance, its parent company, would have to sell its share to an American ...

On Tuesday, I apparently blew up the Internet because I touched the political third rail. I talked about Social Security. Now I know what you’re thinking: What’s so spicy about Social Security? And I will admit I was thinking the same thing. Well, I said two things. First, I said that Social Security needs to ...

If Joe Biden’s policies were wildly popular, everybody would overlook the fact that the man walks into walls. But his policies are terrible. On Tuesday, it was reported that the index of consumer prices rose 3.2% in February from one year earlier. We try to keep the rate at 2%. But we are still clocking ...

The Academy Awards were last night, and the awards show was less of a failure than usual; it was more entertaining than usual. Sure, it was still roughly nine hours long, but it had its moments. First, “Oppenheimer” did really well. The film walked away with Best Picture, Christopher Nolan properly won best director, Cillian ...

Thursday night was Joe Biden’s big State of the Union address. The stakes were high because this is a very closely fought election. The president of the United States is ailing. He has been trailing in the polls to Donald Trump, his arch-nemesis. But all he really had to do was be alive and be ...