What do you think has been eroded?īen Shapiro: What is eroding is the fundamental principles upon which the civilisation is based. The Economist: In your latest book you spend a lot of time talking about what’s going wrong in society. It is followed by condensed portions of the interview. Mr Shapiro discusses Western values, freedom of speech, why he is only “sometimes Trump” and the criticism that he is Islamophobic, in an interview with Anne McElvoy for The Economist Asks podcast and our Open Future initiative. “If I can use the methodologies of gaining eyeballs to get people to look into deeper content, then I’m going to do that,” he tells The Economist. Once the spotlight is on, he fights his way out with nuance and intellect. It serves as an opening salvo to be heard above the din in digital media. Mr Shapiro not only courts controversy, he relies on it. He suggests that transgender people suffer a “mental disorder” he opposes same-sex couples raising children he has said (and sort of retracted) that “Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage.” His views are classically religious-conservative. In it, he argues that the dismissal of Judeo-Christian values and the Greek tradition of reason leads to subjectivism and individualism that is behind the West’s social and political malaise. At 35, his seventh book was published this month, “The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great” (Broadside Books). He blasted into the public sphere at the tender age of 20 with his first book, “Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth”, that made him a hero to many young conservatives.Īfter a stint at Breitbart, the veritable headquarters of right-wing media, he created his own outlet, The Daily Wire, catering to hyperventilating conservatives. We apologise.ĮVERYTHING ABOUT Ben Shapiro is polished. In fact, he has been strongly critical of the alt-right movement. A previous version mistakenly described Mr Shapiro as an "alt-right sage" and "a pop idol of the alt right". Editor's note: This article has been changed.
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