Bronze · No. 3 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Conservative commentator, The Daily Wire
Ben Shapiro co-founded The Daily Wire and hosts The Ben Shapiro Show, one of the most listened-to political podcasts in America.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Ben Shapiro's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Made his name taking challenges from students at campus events, and debated Cenk Uygur on health care and money in politics before 3,000 people at Politicon in 2017.
Shapiro co-founded The Daily Wire in 2015 and remains its editor emeritus. He hosts The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily podcast and radio program, writes syndicated columns, and has written 16 non-fiction books.
He describes his politics as economically libertarian and socially conservative.
On the record
2024
October 24, 2024
One against many
Against 25 Kamala Harris voters · Jubilee, Surrounded
Jubilee's one-against-many format: whoever held the chair argued until a majority of the room voted them out or time ran out on the topic.
2023
October 2023
One against many
Against Oxford Union members · Oxford Union
Weeks after October 7, Shapiro took challenges from Oxford students on Israel and Gaza in an open question-and-answer debate at the union.
2023
December 2023
Broadcast debate
Against Alex O'Connor · Premier Unbelievable, The Big Conversation
Shapiro argued that religion supplies the moral absolutes and community that hold societies together; O'Connor argued that secular societies can reach the same outcomes without it.
2017
July 2017
Formal debate
Against Cenk Uygur · Politicon, Pasadena
A head-to-head with The Young Turks' host before about 3,000 people, centered on health care spending and the role of money in politics. Shapiro thanked Uygur afterward and said the country could use more discussions like it.
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