Benjamin Shapiro was born in 1984 in Burbank, Calif. Brought up in the home of two Reagan Republicans, where intelligent conversation about politics and philosophy was encouraged, Shapiro quickly developed into a reasoned political thinker and a powerful writer. He entered UCLA at the age of 16. Never afraid to antagonize his political opposition, he was the only counter-protester at an Affirmative Action Rally that drew over 1,500 people on UCLA's campus, and he has repeatedly challenged liberal professors and faculty. As a staunch conservative on the modern politically correct campus, Shapiro faces the political liberals head-on. From exposing the leftist tilt of the professoriate on college campuses to addressing the conflict in the Middle East, Shapiro's confrontational approach always draws a hailstorm of response. Shapiro was hired at age 17 to become the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the U.S. His columns are printed nationwide in major newspapers and websites, including Townhall.com, WorldNetDaily.com, Frontpagemag.com, the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the Conservative Chronicle. His columns have also appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, RealClearPolitics.com, Jewish World Review, and he has been quoted on the O'Reilly Factor, in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Press, and in The American Conservative magazine, among many others. Shapiro is a regular guest on dozens of radio shows around the United States and Canada. He is also the author of the national bestseller, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth (May 2004, Thomas Nelson Inc./WND Books). An Orthodox Jew, virtuosic violinist, and hack golfer, Shapiro graduated UCLA in June 2004 with a B.A. in Political Science. He is currently a student at Harvard Law School. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I was sitting at lunch with a colleague a few weeks back, and he mentioned that he did not understand the general media hubbub over Michelle Obama's unpatriotic statements. "So she said that she hadn't been proud... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/07/02/why_america_is_the_greatest_country_on_earth 5f2eb756-493e-48ff-9f5d-26c9f092be99 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Why don't Jews believe in Judaism? A poll this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life contained some stunning results regarding American Jews: Six in 10 American Jews expressed some doubts about God's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/06/25/the_patriotic_jew 222170f0-59ee-4394-96f4-29d586e89f05 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT A new video on YouTube is taking the Internet by storm. Entitled "I'm Voting Republican," the satirical clip depicts actors playing conservative Americans of all shapes and sizes explaining why they would vote for the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/06/18/why_im_voting_democrat 09f5a17e-611a-4195-8e32-e164631dcb10 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The media seems bizarrely obsessed with the story of "Thomas Beatie," aka Tracy Lagondino. Beatie, a woman who legally changed her sex to "male," retained all of her internal female organs at the same time she took... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/06/11/the_pregnant_man_freak_show 0839ccd0-f4d7-4f5d-b9bf-5b5fd5e32cc1 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT On Sunday, June 1, Israel announced plans to build over 800 homes in Jerusalem. And the international community proceeded to go ballistic. "Our position on the settlements is that we don't believe that any more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/06/04/the_case_for_israeli_settlements 94e5ab6c-1136-40aa-b64c-7c17b2b9b4a2 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Does disdain for the military matter anymore? If Barack Obama's candidacy is any indication, it does not. Sen. Obama gave a graduation speech at Wesleyan University on Sunday, May 25. In it, he praised students for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/05/28/barack_obamas_anti-military_problem 5fc52ca7-5dda-40a9-b1b4-2338794c1dd7 Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Dear Senator Obama, It is often politically inconvenient when someone tells the truth about you before millions of people. When President Bush spoke before the Israeli Knesset last week to commemorate the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/05/21/open_letter_to_barack_obama 0dbd7880-12b9-4613-823d-4bfa982503d7 Wed, 21 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Barack Obama is all about unification. Theres only one problem: the people who comprise his staff are some of the most extreme leftists in the country. Theres his legislative counsel, Ian H. Solomon, who wrote in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/05/14/barack_obama_pays_radicals_to_staff_his_campaign 954e2e35-d411-4e5d-9262-9a16e4b8c77b Wed, 14 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT What do you call a candidate who wins 90 percent of the African-American vote, between 30 percent and 50 percent of the Hispanic vote and 40 percent of the white vote in a tight Democratic primary race? A general... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/05/08/barack_obama_is_a_loser 851471a9-b40a-4d3e-8d27-cedc1eb22931 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT What is the leading breeding ground for tomorrow's role models of degradation and promiscuity? The Disney Channel. On Monday, news broke that Vanity Fair was planning on running "discreet" and "artistic" photos from a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/04/30/hannah_montana_does_playboy c7a22ae2-ca76-4e0a-ba65-01bf30efa81d Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Art, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. No one has come up with a workable definition of art that can universally separate garbage like Karen Finley's body goo from Michelangelo's "David." And because art is so... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/04/24/no_bodily_fluids_in_the_public_square e5daa698-0c8e-4a95-8c07-611dde696a29 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Jimmy Carter is an evil man. It is painful to label a past president of the United States as a force for darkness. But it is dangerous to let a man like Jimmy Carter stalk around the globe cloaked in the garb of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/04/16/jimmy_carter_emissary_of_evil 4133b23c-985a-4c36-a245-29058f9262b3 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT On Tuesday morning, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran was busily installing 6,000 new centrifuges for development of nuclear material. Further, Ahmadinejad stated, Iran would begin testing a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/04/09/obama_coddles_evil 0b88101e-e08e-4ccd-bb95-c79c12ffa308 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT According to Hillary Clinton, she has a lot in common with Rocky, the movie boxer played by Sylvester Stallone. Quitting now, she told a crowd in Philadelphia, would be tantamount to "Rocky Balboa (getting) halfway... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/04/02/hillary_hopes_to_be_rocky_ii_in_2012 7c363680-7f34-4de0-8142-74d67ce73981 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Politicians aspiring to the presidency are ambitious. It comes with the territory. But there are politicians with honor and those without honor. There are those who will do anything to get elected and those who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/03/26/barack_obama_throws_grandma_under_the_bus 036b4919-fc91-4c8f-8aa4-661d820fb5f4 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT