The Fifth Assassination Attempt: Ben Shapiro on the Media Lies Driving Political Violence
In a recent interview, Ben Shapiro outlined media lies and false framing that have led to a dramatic increase in political violence in America. Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. On April 6, 2026, Ben Shapiro appeared on the Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson and argued that three institutional lies, stacked in sequence, had produced a collapse of