Ep. 2454 - Abolish The UN!

In a forceful monologue, Ben Shapiro makes the case that the United Nations is not merely ineffective but actively harmful to American interests and global peace. His central argument is that the UN, like its failed predecessor the League of Nations, is built on a liberal internationalist fantasy that cannot prevent war or atrocity, and instead functions as a corrupt, unaccountable bureaucracy that empowers America's adversaries while constraining the United States. The episode is a full-throated indictment, arguing that after a century of evidence, the verdict is in: the UN does not work, and the U.S. should leave it.

The Wilsonian Fantasy and the Birth of the UN

Shapiro traces the intellectual roots of the UN back to President Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations after World War I. The League's Article 10, which required all members to defend any attacked member, was, in Shapiro's view, "totally insane and also at odds with the United States Constitution" because it would hand Senate war powers to a council of foreigners. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify it, and the League did nothing to prevent the rise of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or Fascist Italy. Shapiro argues the League was worse than useless: "There is a case to be made that without the illusion of collective security that restrained particularly Britain, France, and the United States, that those countrie