Social media star Montana Tucker told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> how she went from singing, dancing, and acting to being one of the fiercest pro-Israel voices following Hamas’ October 7 attack.
“That was a really big risk for my platforms because people were not following me to see me cry and to see me talk about something so serious,” Tucker told Shapiro on the Sunday Special. “They were following me to see me dance on the streets and sing.”
Tucker, who has more than 14 million followers across all platforms, said she lost hundreds of thousands of followers and received death threats after she became outspoken.
“But I also gained a whole new following of people who truly share my morals, values, and mission,” she said. She noted that many of her original followers, who might not have been exposed to her perspective on the war in Israel, stayed with her. “I now have a diverse audience — people of all races, religions, and walks of life — who are not only being educated about this, but are also beginning to truly understand what’s happening.”
Tucker expressed disappointment in how TikTok — her largest platform — became increasingly hateful after October 7, a stark contrast to the welcoming space she once knew.
“It used to be a place that I felt was so loving and accepting of everyone. Like it didn&#8217;t matter what you looked like, where you&#8217;re from, anyone had the opportunity to go viral,” Tucker said. “I feel like now, it&#8217;s turned into like such a hateful place.”
Tucker, 31, said her career shift was deeply personal and followed in the path of her two of her Holocaust survivor grandparents who spoke about Jewish suffering around the world.
“I just knew that I had to now take over their legacy and their goal and their mission,” Tucker said. “When October 7th happened specifically, something came over me that it was like, okay, this is now my time.”
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Tucker made headlines in February when she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/montana-tucker-emblazons-grammy-outfit-with-banner-for-israeli-hostages">wore a dress</a> to the Grammy’s with a large yellow ribbon and the words “Bring Them Home,” referring to the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Tucker, who is from Boca Raton, Florida, said her last time being in Israel before October 7 was for a birthright trip 11 years ago. But after Hamas’ attack, she said she’s been back several times to create different projects.
One of her most notable projects was a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/montanatucker/reel/C7wlyE9xopo/?hl=en">viral video</a> featuring survivors of the Nova massacre and Lilach Friedman’s Dance Ensemble, filmed at the site of the Nova festival. The tribute, titled “We CAN Dance Again,” honored the 364 festival goers who were killed.
Tucker also released her “How To: Never Forget” docuseries in January where she traveled to Poland to learn more about the history of the Holocaust.
In December, Tucker will release her latest documentary about the child survivors of Hamas’ attack, titled “The Children of October 7th.”
Tucker told Shapiro about one of the chilling interviews she had with a child while filming.
“I interviewed a kid who Hamas kill both of his parents right in front of him, and then he had to hide under his mother&#8217;s dead body for a few hours so that Hamas would think that he was dead as well,” she said. “Can you imagine living under your mother&#8217;s dead body just to survive?”
“The lifetime of trauma that these kids are going to have to deal with, they&#8217;re never going to be the same ever,” she added.
You can watch the full interview on DailyWire+.

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Social Media Star Montana Tucker Tells Ben Shapiro How She Danced Into Pro-Israel Activism

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October 7

Sunday Special

World

In a wide-ranging conversation on the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/jonathan-pageau-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special</a>,” the Daily Wire host and Orthodox Christian thinker Jonathan Pageau warned that the Left&#8217;s &#8220;hijacking of traditional symbolism&#8221; risks creating an &#8220;upside down world&#8221; where abnormality is imposed on society.
Pageau pointed to recent examples like the Olympics opening ceremony using Christian imagery to promote progressive causes, calling it &#8220;cannibalistic&#8221; and destructive. He emphasized the importance of recapturing traditional stories and symbolism to counter this trend.
“So the most obvious example would be the Olympics opening ceremony, where they&#8217;re using the symbolism of Jesus and the 12 disciples to promote homosexuality and transgenderism. I mean, it&#8217;s literally taking the message of Christianity and turning it into a hedonistic, sexually sterile promotion tool,” Shapiro said. 
“This is the thing that we have to understand, Ben, is that the kind of psycho progressive, like the really fringe, the hard Left, is they understand symbolism very well. … They know what they&#8217;re doing,” Pageau replied. “And so the coherence of the symbolism of that scene was absolutely right to their purpose, which is the complete destruction of all identity and of all purpose.” 
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He added that “it’s really important for us to recapture those stories and to recapture the symbolism because we&#8217;re faced with things that we&#8217;ve lost our weapons against.” Pageau argued that it’s more important to respond to the Left making a mockery of the Last Supper by telling “the true story” instead of simply giving political statements. 
“That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t talk about politics that much. I talk about stories and about and I try to tell stories because that&#8217;s the best way to answer,” he said. “Because the real story, the true story is the one that is embodied in fairy tales or the Bible or even the ancient myths, these stories that have been with us for millennia, and that that kind of uphold our civilization.” 
Pageau and Shapiro also discussed how attempts to deconstruct traditional symbolism, particularly around gender, can lead to cultural confusion. 
&#8220;The desire to deconstruct the male-female opposite that is set up in the beginning of Genesis is going at the very core of reality where it’s like if we can take that, then we can define everything and decide what everything is, and humanity is indefinitely programable,” Pageau said. “But that’s impossible.” 
Earlier in the interview, Pageau said that fairytales use similar patterns and language as biblical stories but are more accessible, especially to children. 
&#8220;They connect to the same ideas. But they have a little more buffer and they&#8217;re more accessible for the common people,&#8221; Pageau said.
Pageau analyzed the fairytale &#8220;Jack and the Beanstalk&#8221; as an example, describing it as a coming-of-age story with deep symbolism about masculinity, civilization, and patterns of being. The Christian thinker also discussed his book “<a href="https://store.thesymbolicworld.com/products/jack-and-the-fallen-giants">Jack and the Fallen Giants</a>,” which is a retelling of the popular fairytale, saying, “There&#8217;s a connection between the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and the story of the Giants in and in Genesis. And also later in the Old Testament.” 
“So we&#8217;re trying to help people see those connections and see how the fairytales aren&#8217;t just a bunch of ridiculous things that are accumulated together. … But they actually have patterns that describe the cosmos in a deep way,” he added.

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Jonathan Pageau, Ben Shapiro Warn Of The Left’s ‘Hijacking Of Traditional Symbolism’

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Olympic

Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, spoke with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on the latest episode of the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-decay-of-the-american-medical-establishment-dr-drew-pinsky-member-exclusive">Sunday Special</a>” and discussed the media’s silence on the health questions surrounding President Joe Biden and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 
Dr. Drew, who was heard on the radio and seen on network television for decades, revealed to Shapiro how the higher-ups at HLN and CNN started to censor him beginning in 2016. 
“What lines did you cross at CNN and HLN that made you persona non grata over there?” Shapiro asked. 
The doctor said that he was a regular guest on Don Lemon’s CNN show during the 2016 presidential election and was frequently asked about Donald Trump’s state of mind. 
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He told Shapiro that CNN also asked him to give his analysis of then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s health. Dr. Drew said there were multiple things in Clinton’s public medical records that concerned him and he addressed them in a 30-second clip.
“I had lots of questions about what her doctors were doing,” he said. “So I did 30 seconds on why I thought there were concerns about her medical care, not that she was unfit for office, not that there was anything wrong with her physically or mentally, just that these medical records made me very concerned.” 
Dr. Drew said his analysis of Clinton’s health questions was picked up by news outlets and aggregators, including Drudge Report, the next day. After his comments on Clinton&#8217;s health, Dr. Drew said “the highest echelons at CNN&#8221; started telling him to &#8220;Shut up.”
He added that following his comments on Clinton’s health, he “was never allowed to speak again on that network.” 
Shapiro chimed in saying that in 2008, when Republican John McCain was running for president at 72 years old, it was perfectly fine for people to raise questions about his health. But in 2016 and 2020, speculating about Clinton after she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhf1HGaAFfg">appeared to collapse</a> getting into a van and about Biden as he struggled to speak, “was considered completely out of bounds.” 
“You were not allowed to talk about [Biden’s] age … and then for three long years, we were told that you’re not allowed to ask anything about what’s going on with him,” Shapiro added. 
Dr. Drew said that medical students train by watching videos of people who show signs of Parkinson’s “like Joe Biden,” adding that it’s not a diagnosis of Parkinson’s, but rather “describing what we’re seeing.” 
“We’re seeing Parkinsonism,” he said.

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Dr. Drew, Ben Shapiro Discuss How Legacy Media Censored Questions About Dems’ Health

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Joe Biden

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There’s no denying that Matt Walsh’s new documentary, “Am I Racist?” is hilarious. 
The Daily Wire podcast host uses his signature brand of deadpan delivery in cringy situations to keep audiences engaged and entertained. But when Walsh sat down with Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro for a “Sunday Special” episode, the pair spent a good amount of time talking about why this topic seriously matters.
They discussed how even though it’s funny that the DEI grifters are so ridiculous, deep down this social contagion has caused pervasive damage across the country. Shapiro pointed out how even though most Americans wouldn’t sign up for a “white guilt seminar,” DEI is still “deep rooted” in society. It’s baked into law, employment policy, and is a key tenet of Vice President Kamala Harris’s policies, according to her. 
Walsh agreed that this movie  matters precisely because most people aren’t sitting around crying over their white guilt. It’s Walsh’s comedic style that strikingly exposes the toxic view of the race hustling crowd.
“Most people are not true believers like this,” Walsh says. “They want nothing to do with this craziness. And yet the people you see in the film are the ones who are coming up with these programs that are then foisted on normal Americans at their jobs.”
He continues, “So maybe in your free time you&#8217;re not choosing to go to something like this. But the problem is that this stuff is brought to you in places where there&#8217;s no reason why it would be there. The fact that you just want to work, you&#8217;re working a job has nothing to do with any of this, and yet you&#8217;re being forced to at the very least, listen to this sort of lecturing, if not actively affirm it in a lot of cases. So this is why we have to care about it, because we really have no choice.”
Later, the pair discussed how the topic of DEI relates to the 2024 election.
“It&#8217;s obviously a big topic in this presidential election, and it&#8217;s the undercurrent to the presidential election that we are not allowed to speak about,” Shapiro said. He pointed out how hypocritical it is for the Left to make a big deal about Harris being black and a woman while simultaneously accusing people of racism who notice they’re saying it and acknowledge what they’re saying.
“When we call her the DEI president, as you said, we&#8217;re just taking them at their own word,” Walsh replied. “The most you could claim is that, well, she was the best black woman who was available —  and that I don&#8217;t buy either. But that&#8217;s the most you could say, because you announced ahead of time that you&#8217;re only looking in that particular category of people. So yeah, it’s a DEI president.”
Shapiro pointed out that the result of Walsh’s hit 2022 documentary “What Is a Woman?” led to a fair amount of activism. He asked the podcast host if he saw any solutions for fixing the DEI epidemic which the film could help inspire. 
“Well, there are political solutions, some of which, you know, Donald Trump has talked about. Outlawing programs that exclude people on the basis of race, which are already supposed to be outlawed,” Walsh said. “Most of that stuff is flagrantly illegal already. So shutting that down, which a lot of that could be done on a policy level.”
He continued, “A lot of the other changes I think could be made relatively easily with just lawsuits. But people that are affected by this stuff need to file lawsuits. And we&#8217;ve seen a little of that happening already.”
Walsh said even with the state of the court system, a lot of these policies only remain in place because they haven’t been challenged in court.
“But then there&#8217;s kind of the cultural level too. Similar with ‘What Is a Woman?’ that there were laws that needed to be changed, a lot of those laws have been changed, policies needed to be put in place, a lot of them have been put in place… but then there’s the cultural level… [people] need to not be afraid to say what they know is true.”
“Let’s have a culture that is totally intolerant to that kind of madness,” Walsh says of the impact he hopes to achieve with both films.
“I think we’re starting to see that kind of change culturally on the gender stuff. I think it needs to happen on the race stuff too,” he went on. “Because even if we make all the political changes that we need to make, you still have a problem if you have, like, white people walking around feeling burdened by guilt for things they didn&#8217;t do… it&#8217;s just a totally misplaced, ambiguous kind of guilt that a lot of these people just carry around, and we have to get rid of that. And it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s actually kind of a freeing message.”
The conversation ended with speculation on why so many people are tricked into paying large sums of money to DEI grifters. In the film, viewers see how much the “experts” charged for the workshops and seminars – often in the tens of thousands of dollars 
When Shapiro asked what the motivation could be, Walsh replied that sometimes it’s as simple as virtue signaling or trying to impress their liberal friends. Some of the people featured in the film probably had more complicated motives.
“You don&#8217;t sit around the table and pay money to endure that just as a virtue signal,” he said of the Race To Dinner event he attended with Regina Jackson and Saira Rao that was teased in the “Am I Racist?” trailer. 
“I think you&#8217;re there because at some fundamental level you really believe it,” Walsh said. “And so for those people, they are true believers. And I think that on this issue in particular, if I were to psychoanalyze, I think a lot of it does come down to guilt and people are carrying around a lot of guilt.”
He added, “Everyone carries around guilt. And part of the problem is that in the past we had a way of understanding the guilt that we all feel. And you understood it in a religious context. You understood it as a spiritual problem and there was also a remedy which changes from religion to religion. But every religion has a remedy for the guilt.”
“As we become a secular society, we don&#8217;t have that message anymore,” Walsh said. “People still have guilt, though. And so they&#8217;re looking around like, why do I feel this way?”
He said DEI grifters come in with the “answer” to the issue of guilt, offering to atone for it by charging people money. 
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Am I Racist

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Spencer Klavan, associate editor at the Claremont Institute and host of the “Young Heretics” podcast, discussed his new book exploring the relationship between science and faith and rejected the popular notion that the two are incompatible on the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/sunday-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special</a>.” 
During the interview, Shapiro asked Klavan about his new work “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Light-Mind-World-Science-Illuminating/dp/1684515335">Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science through Faith</a>.” Klavan told Shapiro that &#8220;religion has always motivated the best scientific discoveries and how science as it is currently unveiling, the natural world can reveal to us the glory of God.&#8221;
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“Obviously, the way that many people are taught in public school or have come to believe because of media is that science and reason are completely opposed to faith and religion,” Shapiro said. 
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Klavan said that the idea of science and religion being at odds is &#8220;not just pernicious&#8221; but also &#8220;wildly out of date.&#8221; He pointed to recent scientific discoveries that go hand-in-hand with “the world as described in the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures.&#8221; Klavan argued this narrative creates an unnecessary barrier for people of faith, making them feel that they must &#8220;abandon the most important thing to all of us, which is the life of the soul and the life of the spirit&#8221; in order to be rational.
Klavan emphasized that science itself requires faith principles to function. The Daily Wire host agreed, saying, “The reality is that science can&#8217;t prove itself. And this is something that scientists are constantly attempting to just sort of ignore. But science as a process is not a provably true process. And in fact, the very idea of an absolute truth is a faith principle because evolution, biologists have said many times, does not point to truth.”
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“It points to adaptability. And so you can say that perhaps an idea is adaptable, that perhaps it helps us in our evolutionary fitness,” he added. “But you can&#8217;t ever make the claim that it has an absolute level of real truth. That is a faith principle. And in fact, virtually all of science is rooted in faith principles like that.”
Klavan cited historical examples like Galileo, who defended his observations by saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to insult God by believing that my reason has a hard stopping point.&#8221;
“In other words, if it&#8217;s true that human reason only extends so far and no further, that&#8217;s an insult to religion,” he continued. “The religious point of view at that time, or one at least of the most passionately faithful points of view, was that because we&#8217;re made in the image of God, that classic Judeo-Christian idea, our minds are little microcosms or templates for understanding the whole rest of the natural world. If you take away that religious conviction, you have no reason to believe that or to expect good answers to the questions that science teaches us to ask.”

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Ben Shapiro, Spencer Klavan Defend Vital Role Of Faith In Science: ‘Very Idea Of An Absolute Truth Is A Faith Principle’

Ben Shapiro, Spencer Klavan Defend The Vital Role Of Faith In Science: ‘Very Idea Of An Absolute Truth Is A Faith Principle’

Faith

Religion

Science

The Ben Shapiro Show

In a candid “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-reagan-era-dennis-quaid-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Special</a>” interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, actor Dennis Quaid revealed what led him to accept the titular role in his newest movie “Reagan,” and discussed how Hollywood has &#8220;lost its relevancy with an audience.&#8221; 
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-new-trailer-for-reagan-movie-starring-dennis-quaid-just-released">Reagan</a>” hits theaters on August 30 and also stars Jon Voight as a fictional ex-KGB agent and Penelope Ann Miller as Nancy Reagan. Quaid told Shapiro that he was initially hesitant to take on the role of President Ronald Reagan, citing the former president&#8217;s iconic status and the challenge of portraying him authentically. 
&#8220;Reagan was my favorite president,&#8221; Quaid said. &#8220;I voted for Jimmy Carter in &#8217;76. It was the first time I could vote, but then I voted for Reagan in &#8217;80.&#8221;
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The actor revealed that visiting Reagan&#8217;s ranch was a turning point in his decision to accept the role, and emphasized the importance of capturing Reagan&#8217;s essence beyond mere impersonation. 
&#8220;Acting is about what makes people tick, you know, and you have the public persona, but you have to be able to get behind that as an actor in order to make someone come alive and not just make an impression,&#8221; he stated.
Regarding his approach to acting, Quaid emphasized the importance of research and character development. For his portrayal of Reagan, he said he had &#8220;a couple of years really before we even started filming&#8221; to prepare, allowing him to capture the nuances of Reagan&#8217;s speech and mannerisms across different periods of his life.
“One of the things that&#8217;s fascinating when you read biographies of Reagan is that pretty much everybody who knew him, maybe except for Nancy, talks about him having this sort of inner reserve, how he would you know, he would be in the room with you and obviously he would interact with you, but there was a part of him that he sort of kept behind a wall,” Shapiro said. “What do you think that was?”
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“That&#8217;s the thing between the impersonation and getting to the person about what makes them tick,” Quaid replied, adding, “And there was that thing of Reagan I heard from everyone that knew him, there&#8217;s this impenetrable space that he always had that, you know, this is the ‘Great Communicator,’ quite jovial of a person, but there was this place that you couldn&#8217;t get past as well, a very private place. And I think that was always there with him from childhood, really.” 
The film&#8217;s independent financing allowed for greater creative control over the story, Quaid said, adding that this approach enabled the filmmakers to present a more nuanced and potentially positive portrayal of Reagan than might have been possible through traditional Hollywood channels.
Reflecting on the current state of Hollywood, Quaid observed, &#8220;I think that Hollywood has sort of lost its relevancy with an audience to a certain extent.&#8221; Quaid told Shapiro that he sees potential in emerging film production centers outside of Los Angeles, such as Atlanta and Texas, as new hubs for creativity and talent.
Quaid expressed hope that the Reagan biopic would not only entertain but also educate younger audiences about an important period in American history. &#8220;For those who are like your age, you know, you get a glimpse into what this country used to be like. And for those like my age, you&#8217;re reminded what this country was and what it still can be,&#8221; he said.
The actor concluded by sharing his desire to see more diverse stories told in Hollywood, mentioning a potential project about Crazy Horse and the Lakota Sioux as an example of an untold narrative he&#8217;d like to bring to the screen.

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Dennis Quaid Joins Ben Shapiro On ‘Sunday Special,’ Reveals What Led Him To Accept Role Portraying President Reagan In New Film

Dennis Quaid Joins Ben Shapiro On The ‘Sunday Special,’ Reveals What Led Him To Accept Role Portraying President Reagan In New Film

Dennis Quaid

On the latest “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/sunday-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Special</a>” episode, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro talked with Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who warned that the proliferation of complex laws and regulations is threatening Americans&#8217; freedoms and undermining trust in government institutions.
Gorsuch told Shapiro that the U.S. Code has doubled in length since 1980, with Congress adding 2-3 million new words to federal laws annually. He noted that federal agencies have also been prolific, with conservative estimates putting the number of federal crimes buried in regulations at 300,000.
“And, of course, that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg. Our federal agencies have been busy, too. There are so many federal crimes now buried in those regulations adopted by agencies, not necessarily by Congress, that nobody knows how many there are,” he said. 

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Gorsuch emphasized the human toll of regulatory overreach, citing examples like a magician who had to obtain a federal license for his rabbit and create a 28-page disaster preparedness plan. He argued that excessive regulation undermines trust in government institutions and disproportionately impacts ordinary Americans trying to comply with complex laws.
“Most people have no idea what the law actually is,” Gorsuch added. “You can hire a lawyer and if you&#8217;re rich enough, then maybe you&#8217;re able to navigate the laws. If you&#8217;re not rich, then you&#8217;re probably screwed, depending on how tightly regulated any particular segment is.” 
The justice expressed hope for bipartisan solutions, highlighting state-level efforts to eliminate unnecessary regulations. He pointed to the deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s as an example of successful reform at the federal level. Gorsuch also stressed the importance of civic education, stating that &#8220;a third of Americans can&#8217;t name the three branches of government, let alone why we have them.&#8221;
Shapiro chimed in, stating, “When you look at sort of the history of the development of this giant bureaucracy, the amount of rulemaking you trace this this dramatic increase to sort of the latter half of the 20th century. But its roots lie in Wilsonian administrative state theories. And really that comes from German progressivism.” 
“The original checks and balances of the Constitution were largely designed to prevent things from getting done in the absence of a large-scale approval of the things, the American public really had to be nearly unanimous in a lot of ways in order to get big things done,” Shapiro added. “And by the time we got to the early 20th century, Woodrow Wilson famously — and Teddy Roosevelt too — really believed that now the federal government had become unworkable; it just was not able to get the things done that it needed to get done. And so the idea was governance from above by experts who could thwart the checks and balances that were creating such obstruction.” 
The discussion between the Daily Wire host and Justice Gorsuch highlights growing concerns about regulatory overreach and its impact on everyday Americans. Gorsuch’s warnings come at a time of heightened debate over the proper role and scope of government regulation.
At the federal level, Gorsuch noted that both Republican and Democratic administrations have undertaken deregulatory initiatives in recent years. The Supreme Court has shown a willingness to reconsider longstanding doctrines that give agencies broad latitude in interpreting and enforcing regulations. In June, the high court, with the help of Gorsuch, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massive-conservative-win-supreme-court-overrules-chevron-deference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturned</a> the &#8220;Chevron deference&#8221; doctrine, which had required courts to defer to agencies&#8217; reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes.

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Ben Shapiro Sits Down With Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch In Latest ‘Sunday Special’ Episode’

“There are so many federal crimes now buried in those regulations … that nobody knows how many there are.”

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In the latest “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/balancing-faith-reason-matt-fradd-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Special</a>” episode, Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro discussed the importance of religious communities and traditional values in combating societal decline with Catholic author Matt Fradd.
During the wide-ranging interview, both Shapiro and Fradd agreed that religious communities play a crucial role in preserving traditional morality and family structures in the face of secularization. 
&#8220;When we talk about the West and Western civilization, a muscular pursuit of religious values — and in the West you’re talking about Christian values — is absolutely necessary to the upholding of the West,” Shapiro stated. “All the fundamental premises of the West are built on these Christian values.”
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Shapiro added that &#8220;the loss of community is the single greatest factor in the decline of religion,&#8221; highlighting how religious institutions historically provided economic support and fostered bonds across class divides. He emphasized that such community ties &#8220;cannot be duplicated&#8221; by government programs.
Fradd agreed, arguing that family life is so important that he encouraged couples to &#8220;get married before you’re ready, have more kids than you can afford, and then move into a bubble of other like-minded people and raise them in the faith.&#8221; 
“Of course, I could qualify all those things,” Fradd said. “Obviously, you should discern.”
He also clarified that by living in “a bubble,” he did not mean complete isolation, but rather living among those with shared values. 
&#8220;My 15-year-old daughter doesn&#8217;t have a cell phone, and it&#8217;s never really occurred to her to ask for one because we hang out with other homeschooling families who also, of course, wouldn&#8217;t give their child a smartphone,&#8221; Fradd said.
Shapiro concurred, stating: &#8220;I am very much the same way.&#8221; 
The conversation also touched on the topic of pornography, an issue Fradd has written a book on. He emphasized the need to educate children early about pornography, and said he points to specific words of Christ to battle the sinful practice. 
“I think the man who continually kind of gives over his life to pornography is becoming emasculated. He&#8217;s being robbed of the ability to be masculine,” Fradd said.
“I would look at Christ&#8217;s words, ‘So this is my body given up for you,’ and that this act was the most masculine act,” he added. “And it&#8217;s something that I should try to replicate with my own wife in that I deny myself for her good. But pornography trains a man, not to say this is my body given up for you, but the opposite: This is your body taken by me. I deny and forsake and trample over your dignity for the sake of my pleasure.”

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‘Absolutely Necessary To The Upholding Of The West’: Ben Shapiro, Matt Fradd Highlight Importance Of Preserving Religious Values

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In a wide-ranging interview on the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/is-war-forever-changed-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special</a>,” military historian Victor Davis Hanson warned that America&#8217;s global dominance is waning as the nation grapples with growing debt, internal divisions, and a weakening military.
Shapiro opened the discussion by mentioning Hanson’s latest book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Wars-Descend-Annihilation/dp/1541673522">The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation</a>,” and asked the historian to weigh in on the current state of global affairs, especially considering that “there&#8217;s obviously a vacancy at the top of the American government.” 
“So when you look at the world scene, how dangerous are things and where are the chief lines of danger?” he asked Hanson. 
“Well, you know, in the book, I looked at four historical examples of complete civilizational erasure. And there were common themes. One is that a society that is targeted or vulnerable has no idea that it is it has it keeps reassuring itself that its grandeur is still there. It&#8217;s still powerful and has eerie similarities to the United States,” Hanson said. “They have no idea about the people who are attacking them.” 
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“We&#8217;ve had Mr. Erdogan in Turkey threaten to send missiles into Athens, send missiles into Israel, send missiles into Armenia. We have Kim Jong Un acting up again … China has made a video talking about destroying Japan if it were to intervene. And all of this is dismissed as rhetoric. And, you know, 99% of it may be. But we&#8217;re getting to a point now where the United States [which] is the keeper of deterrence worldwide, is no longer there for a variety of reasons.” 
Some of those reasons, Hanson said, include America’s national debt and soldier shortage. 
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have the economic clout with $36 trillion in debt. We&#8217;re borrowing a trillion every 90 days. We&#8217;re short 45,000 soldiers,&#8221; Hanson told Shapiro. He added that divisive racial rhetoric targeted at rural white men has hindered the U.S. military. 
“People don&#8217;t remark at all that those are the soldiers of the white male world demographic that died at two times their numbers in the general populations in God-awful places like Afghanistan and Iraq, 75% of those fatalities came from that demographic,” he said. “Yet we alienated them. [Gen. Mark] Milley [and] Secretary of Defense [Lloyd] Austin calling them names [like] ‘white supremacy, white privilege.’ So I&#8217;m very worried.” 
The historian also critiqued what he sees as inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding Israel and Ukraine. He argued the Biden administration has been overly critical of Israel&#8217;s military operations while giving Ukraine more leeway.
&#8220;Ukraine is an ally, but it&#8217;s not an ally like Israel. And yet we tell the Israelis, you have to be proportionate. Ukraine, you got to see disproportionality. Israel, you have to have a cease-fire. Ukraine, you’ve got to keep fighting to the bitter end. Israel, you’ve got to have a coalition government. You&#8217;ve got to have elections. We don&#8217;t trust you, Netanyahu. Zelensky, we don&#8217;t have a problem with outlawing political parties.” 
Regarding domestic issues, Hanson pointed to unchecked immigration and an expanding administrative state as factors contributing to America&#8217;s decline. 
&#8220;When we let in 10 to 12 million people and we think that they&#8217;re going to work really hard &#8230; I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to happen,&#8221; he stated. “I think what happens at this late stage, they get on entitlements or they commit crimes and they have no respect for any society that would let them in. And that&#8217;s a good sign of a decline that you don&#8217;t have a defensible border.” 
The historian and author did express some optimism regarding domestic politics. He suggested that if former President Trump were to win re-election, he could potentially &#8220;heal the country very quickly.”

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‘I’m Very Worried’: Victor Davis Hanson Points Out Problems With U.S. Foreign And Domestic Policy In Ben Shapiro ‘Sunday Special’ Interview

‘I’m Very Worried’: Victor Davis Hanson Points Out Problems With U.S. Foreign And Domestic Policy In ‘Ben Shapiro Sunday Special’ Interview

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and British author and political commentator Douglas Murray dissected the rise of the radical Left in the U.S., especially within the Democratic Party on the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/our-last-chance-to-save-the-west-douglas-murray-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special</a>.”
Shapiro and Murray first talked about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas and the anti-Israel bias spewed by much of the legacy media, a bias that has been multiplied on college campuses, in the highest echelons of American universities, and even in Congress.
“The idea that you have hundreds of thousands of Westerners marching in solidarity with the murderers, that was on some level more disturbing to me than the actual massacre itself — certainly not in terms of the actual amount of human suffering and the horrifying evil and barbarity of it, but in terms of the threat to the civilization as a whole,” Shapiro said of anti-Israel demonstrations that broke out following Hamas’ attack on Israel where terrorists murdered over 1,000 people.
Murray agreed, adding that the anti-Israel demonstrations on streets across the world were at their core “anti-American” and “anti-Western.”
“Why can you predict with 100% accuracy that the proud Palestinian, not to mention pro-Hamas demonstrators, will never in America carry an American flag? Why do we know with 100% accuracy that when 100,000 mainly Muslim demonstrators go through the streets of London on a Saturday, they will not finish the demonstration by singing God Save the King?” Murray asked. “Why do I know that with 100% accuracy? Because it&#8217;s not about Israel, it&#8217;s about America. It&#8217;s about Britain, it&#8217;s about France.”
“This is a revolutionary movement and it finds its first and most fevered and most flattered version in its attack on Israel,” he added. “But of course, it&#8217;s anti-American; of course, it&#8217;s anti-Western; of course, it&#8217;s anti-British.”
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Later in the interview, Shapiro and Murray talked about revolutionaries’ craving for violence throughout history, a craving that Murray warned is evident in today’s radical leftists. Shapiro also noted that radical demonstrators and political leaders have been largely supported by the Democratic Party establishment.
“What&#8217;s more interesting to me is the collapse of the liberal world order in the face of this. The so-called moderates who seem to be willing to traffic along these lines,” Shapiro said. “In the United States, the Democratic Party [is] continuing to massage the shoulders of the members of the Congress who are members of Hamas, or if not members, then at least fellow travelers of terrorists.”
The willingness to pat on the head, the protesters on college campuses by saying, ‘Well, you know, we don&#8217;t want them being bad and, you know, spray painting buildings. But there&#8217;s just so much passion, and we hear what they&#8217;re saying.’ This attempt to sort of massage them into jet fuel for what they believe is more moderate movement. And that&#8217;s the part that that I find particularly disturbing,” he added.
“There seems to be almost a lack of an immune system on the sort of center-Left for this sort of stuff to the point where it&#8217;s pretty obvious, I think, to anybody who&#8217;s observing politics, whether you&#8217;re doing so in Europe or in the United States … the revolutionaries are going to be in control of the movement. I would be shocked if they&#8217;re not,” Shapiro continued.
Murray chimed in, saying the coddling of radical leftists by the Democratic Party is similar to bad parenting.
“I would use an analogy that a lot of people will know from family life. You’re a parent. You observe, as I do, patterns and what good parenting looks like, what bad parenting looks like,” Murray said. “And I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve observed, as most people have, a parent who is terrified of their child.”
“People who want to be friends with their children, that&#8217;s a ghastly place to start. But … the parent who&#8217;s scared of the child and therefore creates the world around the child so the child will not be upset. It&#8217;s a surefire way to create an absolute brand of a human being who will probably never grow up,” Murray said. “But I think something like that is happening with the politicians and the generation coming up.”

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‘A Revolutionary Movement’: Ben Shapiro And Douglas Murray Discuss The Dangerous Rise Of Radical Leftism

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> and Christian Pastor John MacArthur called for a return to biblical morality amid plummeting church attendance across the United States in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/john-mac-arthur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest episode</a> of the Sunday Special. 
The two discussed the decline of religiosity in America and how many churches have twisted the Bible to be more in line with woke culture. They also discussed how modern secularists have embraced moral relativity and rejected any claim of a higher power. 
During the conversation, Shapiro asked MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, how people looking for a biblical truth “determine what is a Bible believing church that&#8217;s worth their time versus a church that maybe has a Pride progress flag hanging off the door and claims to be speaking in the name of the Gospels.”
“A church that is faithful to scripture, a synagogue that is faithful to scripture, bears moral authority,” MacArthur said. “I mean, it exists to say, ‘this is what the Lord has said. This is what God requires.’ This is divine mandate. This is the morality that leads to blessing and disobedience. And disregard for this morality leads to cursing.”
MacArthur added that many in America wanted to live by their own standards of morality and not have any authority over them. 
“The bottom line is, if you&#8217;re living in the culture that we&#8217;re living in, where you want absolute freedom to do anything you choose to do, to establish your own set of rules, your own truth, your own standards of morality, the last thing you want is to step into some place that&#8217;s going to call into question everything you&#8217;re choosing to do in your life and is going to exercise authority over you,” he said. 
The two also discussed the person of Jesus Christ, who many Americans have twisted into a generic hippy-type figure, Shapiro noted. He said that modern secularists tried to turn Jesus into a “bizarre pacifist with nothing of morality to say.”
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The Daily Wire host noted that “the perversion of Jesus into a sort of namby-pamby, bizarrely androgynous creation from Haight-Ashbury is one of the stranger things that&#8217;s happened over the course of the last 50 or 60 years in American life.”
MacArthur agreed that the moral character of Jesus was transcendent and pointed out how much of Jesus’s ministry was about judgment. 
“You either come to God for forgiveness and salvation, or you&#8217;re going to come under divine judgment. That&#8217;s the real Jesus,” he said. 
Shapiro also asked MacArthur how he might convince a skeptic of Christianity to start attending church. MacArthur replied by saying he would recommend that people read the Bible. 
“Read the Bible. Just read the Bible. It has the ring of truth. It defends itself,” he said. “It&#8217;s like a lion. You don&#8217;t defend it. You don&#8217;t defend the lion. You open the cage and let it out. It&#8217;ll be okay. And the scripture is like that. But it&#8217;s like that even morally, there&#8217;s something in the heart of people that resonates with biblical morality.”
The two also discussed the distinction between faith and acts. 
Shapiro said that in Judaism you can bring people to faith “through acting in the way that the Bible suggests, that you set up a track record of success by acting in moral ways and because you&#8217;re now living in the realm of godly morality, you&#8217;re living what God wants you to live.”
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MacArthur agreed, noting that often people need to be able to see the change in another’s life to come to faith. 
“I think, how can I convince somebody to be a Christian if they can&#8217;t see the transformation? I mean, what am I trying to do if I can&#8217;t say to somebody, you need to be obedient to the law of God, you need to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. You need to be obedient to God&#8217;s will and God will bless you,” the pastor said. 
The two also discussed the spread of wokeness, building church community, and religion’s role in politics. Watch the full interview here: 
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Author and Critical Race Theory critic Coleman Hughes told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro more details of his viral exchange on race with leftist Sunny Hostin on ABC’s “The View” in March.
During the most recent episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/not-everything-is-about-race-coleman-hughes-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special</a>,” Hughes and The Daily Wire host discussed Hostin’s attempt to target Hughes in a “knockdown blow” after he was invited to join “The View” hosts to discuss his book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Race-Politics-Arguments-Colorblind/dp/0593332458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America</a>.” Hostin, who routinely slams conservatives and defends Democrats, accused Hughes of being a “charlatan” and “pawn” for those on the Right.
“Sunny Hostin declared that you were a charlatan and apparently a Republican operative, which seems kind of shocking since my understanding is that you have not voted Republican in any presidential election thus far,” Shapiro said. “Why don&#8217;t you take us through what actually that experience was like in person?”
Hughes, host of “Conversations with Coleman,” told Shapiro that he was excited for the opportunity to appear on “The View” and reach a different audience, but added that before he went on the show, a producer warned him that Hostin would go after him.
“So I was excited to go on. And one of their producers warned me that Sunny Hostin was going to come after me rather hard and I didn&#8217;t know who she was,” he said. “So I had no expectations. I just had, you know, the typical level of anxiety going into a major TV appearance. And what happened is that I had a pretty normal exchange with [Whoopi] Goldberg. We disagreed respectfully. But Sunny Hostin, you know, she claimed to have read my book twice, which was clearly not true, because she had no idea what was in the book, obviously.”
During the <a href="https://x.com/julesterpak/status/1773120245726634118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1773120245726634118%7Ctwgr%5E800927b4a1bd3200e9983d6a13a38f2a8d90207e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fsunny-hostin-gets-wrecked-after-accusing-independent-author-of-being-co-opted-by-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange</a> on “The View,” Hughes explained that his book points out that Martin Luther King Jr. argued for addressing socioeconomic inequality according to class, not race.
“As you are a student of Dr. King, I not only am a student of Dr. King; I know his daughter, Bernice,” Hostin replied, adding, “I think the [book’s] premise is fundamentally flawed.”
Hostin said that years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, King argued for “doing something special for the negro,” which Hostin claimed meant that he supported racial reparations.
“So your argument for color-blindness, I think, is something that the Right has co-opted and so many in the black community, if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be, believe that you are being used as a pawn by the Right and that you’re a charlatan of sorts,” she added.
Hughes quickly refuted her claim, however, saying that King’s comment on “doing something special for the negro” was in the context of King arguing for addressing socioeconomic inequalities through “a broad class-based policy.”
Hughes told Shapiro that Hostin had “an agenda to come after me from a particular angle that she didn&#8217;t realize wasn&#8217;t going to land.”
“She thought this was going to be some kind of knockdown blow to say that I&#8217;ve been co-opted by the Right as if there’s Koch brothers’ money being funneled into my bank account to get me to say what I&#8217;m saying.”
“Whereas the truth is that I just believe what I&#8217;m saying, and I&#8217;ve done a lot of research on this topic,” he said.
Hughes explained that he believes the exchange went viral because “so often on daytime television, on cable news, you see performative energy meeting performative energy.”
“It&#8217;s basically all theater,” he added. “And you rarely see someone come with a kind of performative canned attack, but the other person just responds and kind of calmly with facts. And that&#8217;s what I did there, and I think that was so jarring to people that the moment went viral.”

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Coleman Hughes Tells Ben Shapiro Why His Tense Exchange With ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Went Viral

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