I guess I kind of respect Ben Shapiro, but only in the sense that he is actually well spoken and witty. His political views however, tend to be very absolutist and leave absolutely no room for nuanced discussion.

I think Ben would be much more efficient as a communicator if he would learn to move away from the verbal knife throwing with the "its just a fact, I'm sorry it hurts " caveat... he might even be right sometimes, but who can actually sit there and take in the "information" when his intention was to feed his ego with self righteousness, not to educate, or even really debate.