Ben Shapiro

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a man with dark hair wearing a color-matching yarmulke Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American conservative political commentator, author, podcaster, and attorney. A prodigy who graduated high school early and entered college at age 16, Shapiro earned a B.A. in political science summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2007.

Shapiro began his career as one of the youngest nationally syndicated columnists in the United States at age 17. He has authored over a dozen books, several of which became The New York Times bestsellers, including Primetime Propaganda (2011), which exposed left-leaning biases in Hollywood, and The Right Side of History (2019), arguing for the Judeo-Christian foundations of Western civilization. In 2015, he co-founded The Daily Wire, a digital media company that has become a leading conservative outlet for news, commentary, and entertainment, and launched The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily podcast analyzing politics, culture, and current events. The show has attracted millions of listeners and ranks as the largest conservative podcast in the United States.

Shapiro's public persona emphasizes free-market capitalism, limited government, traditional family structures, and unrestricted free speech. He employs a fast-paced, logic-driven debating style, captured in his phrase, "facts don't care about your feelings." He has participated in high-profile campus debates amid protests from left-wing activists attempting to suppress his views, illustrating tensions over viewpoint diversity in academia. An Orthodox Jew, Shapiro defends Israel and critiques progressive policies on abortion and identity politics using principled, evidence-based arguments.

In brief

Ben Shapiro was debating on television before most of his classmates had a byline. The Daily Wire, which he cofounded, became a digital newsroom with a point of view and a very large microphone.

The show is a daily habit for a young right that likes its arguments fast. He writes books at the same clip. The through-line is a lawyer’s cadence applied to the culture war’s inbox.