Michael Shellenberger on San Francisco Policy and Free Speech

Showing 7 Michael Shellenberger videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Michael Shellenberger built his reputation as a journalist and author examining how public policy failures in progressive-run cities coexist with genuine compassion among the people implementing them, a tension Bill O'Reilly explored directly with him while documenting San Francisco's collapse into open drug use and unenforced quality-of-life crime, citing a homeless rate of 101 per 10,000 residents and roughly $106,000 spent annually per homeless person with little to show for it. Shellenberger has also worked to untangle political labels that have become historically confused, arguing in one interview that classical liberals, people who prioritize free speech and due process, now sit closer to the political right than to the modern progressive left, using his own parents' opposite reactions to a Colorado Supreme Court ballot ruling on Trump as an example of how unpredictable those categories have become. After Charlie Kirk's assassination, Shellenberger joined Tucker Carlson to warn that lawmakers and advocacy groups were using Kirk's death to justify expanded censorship powers rather than the free speech renewal Kirk's own campus debates represented, pointing to Section 230 reform efforts and comparing rising UK speech-related arrests, more than 12,000 in a single year, to rates that exceeded even Russia's.