Breaking Ben Shapiro

Religious Liberty, Intolerance, and the Conservative Concept of Freedom

Tim Wise
12 min readApr 23, 2019

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Photo: Young America’s Foundation/Ben Shapiro’s Twitter; Text: Me

It is rare that the intellectual mendacity of the conservative worldview can be laid bare in a mere 200-something characters. But fortunately for us, Ben Shapiro has a Twitter habit even more prodigious than the President’s, and so here we are: served up the absurdity of the right’s version of liberty in just…

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)