“Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.”

American conservative political commentator and media host

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator and media host. He writes for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and he is editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015. He hosts The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News from 2012 until 2016, and he has written 16 non-fiction books.