Ben Shapiro is an American conservative political commenter and writer. He is known for his book which was published in 2004. Shapiro also writes a column for Creators Syndicate. Likewise, he also serves as editor-in-chief for The Daily Wire which he founded himself.
Early life
Benjamin Aaron Shapiro was born in Los Angeles on 15th January 1984. Shapiro went from Walter Reed Middle school skipping two grades to Yeshiva University High school of Los Angeles and graduated in 2006.
He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He then did his cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2007.
In March 2012, he started an independent consultancy in Los Angeles under his own name Benjamin Shapiro.
Career
Shapiro has his hands in different professional fields. Along with being a journalist, he has also authored a few books. Let's discuss his career one by one.
As an author
From a very young age, Shapiro was interested in politics. He started his career writing columns for different daily papers and sites like
At the age of 17, he started his own nationally syndicated column. He had already written two books by the age of 21. His book argues about students not being exposed to a variety of viewpoints at universities and those who don’t have strong opinions being overwhelmed by atmosphere domination by liberal instructors.
Shapiro has written a number of books which includes and many more.
Shapiro’s fifth book was published in 2013 by Threshold Edition.
As a journalist
On October 7, 2013, he co-founded the U.S. news and activism website in association with the Shapiro became editor-at-large of , a news and opinion website founded by in 2012. However, he resigned from his position as editor-at-large in March 2016.
On September 21, 2015, Shapiro founded and is editor-in-chief as well as a host of his online political podcast. In 2017, the podcast was downloaded 10 million times each month and in 2018 began the Ben Shapiro Show on the radio.
Shapiro was also engaged with different TV shows, and radio shows like and
For his diligent work, Shapiro has won two , and two . He was also named for SXSW Film Festival as well.
Controversy
On an episode of ‘’ he got into an on-air fight with a transgender reporter during a conversation about Caitlyn Jenner. His views on LGBTQ and muslims community, in particular, are also controversial.
