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The Many Faces of Ben Shapiro

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 12:34 p.m.

b'Ben Shapiro was 5 feet 2 inches and extremely prepubescent when, in the mid-1990s, he enrolled as a sophomore at a private Jewish high school in Los Angeles. The scrawny new kid had skipped ahead two grades, was too smart, talked too much, and got brutally bullied. Things came to a head when, on an overnight school trip, a few of Shapiro\\u2019s classmates handcuffed him to a bed and beat him with their belts.'