“There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.”

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.