Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro 2016

Benjamin "Ben" Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984 in Burbank , California ) is an American author, lawyer and right-wing political commentator. Ben Shapiro is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire news site and author of several political books.

life and career

Ben Shapiro grew up in Los Angeles. He skipped two grades and graduated from Yeshiva University High School, an Orthodox Jewish boys' school in Los Angeles, at 16. At 17, Shapiro became the youngest U.S. national columnist to be hired by Creators Syndicate . At the age of twenty, Shapiro earned a bachelor's degree in political science, summa cum laude, from the University of California and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His first two books were published before his 21st birthday. In 2007 he graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School . His fourth book was published by HarperCollins in 2011 .

From 2012 to 2016 he was employed by Breitbart News . He founded The Daily Wire while at Breitbart News on September 21, 2015. The Ben Shapiro Show started that same month and is downloaded 250,000 to 350,000 times a day on Soundcloud . The show is also watched over 300,000 times a day on his YouTube channel with over 1,400,000 subscribers. According to a study by the Anti-Defamation League that counted anti- Semitic tweets between August 2015 and July 2016, Shapiro was the most attacked journalist with over 7,400 tweets against him. In August 2018, Shapiro Alexandria asked Ocasio-Cortez for a public debate. In return, she would receive $ 10,000 for her election campaign or for a charity of her choice. Ocasio-Cortez compared this offer to catcalling, a form of sexual harassment .

In 2008 Shapiro married the doctor Mor Toledano. The two have three children.

Views

Shapiro at the Young Women's Leadership Summit 2018 in Dallas

American presidential election

In the 2016 presidential election , Shapiro's preferred candidate was Ted Cruz ; He rejects Donald Trump as a Republican candidate. Rather, in his view, most of the votes for Trump were a vote against Hillary Clinton .

Termination of pregnancy

Shapiro advocates a complete ban on abortion, including pregnancies through rape or incest , with a high likelihood of severe disability for the child and danger to the mother's health. He referred to women who terminate their pregnancy as baby killers (German equivalent of child murderers ). In 2019, he stated that the Supreme Court had approved the Roe v. Wade probably won't take it back.

At the March for Life 2019 in the capital Washington , he described abortions as acts of violence.

Works

• Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth. WND Books, Nashville 2004, ISBN 0-7852-6148-6 .
• Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future. Regnery , Washington, DC 2013, ISBN 0-89526-016-6 .
• Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House. Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2008, ISBN 1-59555-100-X .
• Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV. Broaside Books , New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-193477-3 .
• Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America. Threshold Editions , New York 2013, ISBN 1-4767-1001-5 .
• The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration. Threshold Editions, New York 2014, ISBN 1-4767-6513-8 .
• A Moral Universe Torn Apart. Creator's Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-945630-02-6 .
• What's Fair and Other Short Stories. Revolution Books, 2015
• True Allegiance. Post Hill Press , New York 2016, ISBN 1-68261-077-2 .
• The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great , Broadside Books, 2019, ISBN 978-0-06285790-3 .

Web links

• Ben Shapiro in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ben Shapiro . Portrait from The Daily Wire , accessed September 24, 2017
2. ^ Gene Maddaus: Inside the Battle 'For the Soul of Conservative Media' . Variety , accessed September 24, 2017
3. ↑ https://premierespeakers.com/ben_shapiro/bio
4. ↑ https://moneyinc.com/ben-shapiro-net-worth/
5. ↑ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/is-ben-shapiro-a-conservative-liberals-can-count-on.html
6. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-debate-catcalling-ben-shapiro.html
7. ↑ https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/ben-shapiro-offered-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-10-000-to-debate-1.6366048
8. ↑ Chava Gourarie: How the 'alt-right' checkmated the media. Columbia Journalism Review, August 30, 2016, accessed September 28, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Sabrina Tavernise: Ben Shapiro, A Provocative 'Gladiator,' Battles to Win Young Conservatives. The New York Times, November 23, 2017, archived from the original on February 8, 2018 ; accessed on February 12, 2018 (English). 
10. ↑ Seth Stevenson: Whose Side Is Ben Shapiro Really On? Slate Magazine, accessed October 2, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Ben Shapiro takes stage at UC Berkeley under extraordinary security. SFGate, September 15, 2017, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Jane Coaston: Why some anti-abortion conservatives think Alabama's abortion law goes too far. In: Vox. May 17, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .