The Ben Shapiro Show - July 15, 2026


Dua Lipa Built a Library of 'Banned' Books That Aren’t Banned


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Dua Lipa has a new book store with 100 titles that are not banned, and that she for sure has not actually read, and they purportedly challenge power. I mean, you can get literally every single one of those books on Amazon Prime today or tomorrow.

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00:00:00.000 Dua Lipa, literary icon, revolutionary writer of this generation.
00:00:03.000 Well, now she's opened a banned books bookstore with 100 titles that are not banned and that she for sure has not actually read.
00:00:11.000 And they purportedly challenge power.
00:00:13.000 I mean, you can get literally every single one of those books on Amazon Prime today or tomorrow.
00:00:17.000 It's always entertaining when pop stars or celebs put out their reading list.
00:00:20.000 This one is particularly incoherent.
00:00:23.000 And speaking of incoherent, Joe Biden has announced his newest book and he is touting his biggest foreign policy failures by mumbling.
00:00:31.000 A lot.
00:00:32.000 Maybe there's a chapter on oatmeal.
00:00:33.000 I mean, could happen. 0.95
00:00:35.000 There is a singer named Dua Lipa, and she has now created what she calls her manifesto library.
00:00:42.000 This is over in Portugal, apparently.
00:00:46.000 It is a library of pseudo banned books.
00:00:49.000 When I say banned books, I mean none of these books are banned.
00:00:50.000 You can get them tomorrow on Amazon, like Prime Delivery.
00:00:55.000 These are some of the most widely read books in civilization.
00:01:00.000 But she's explaining her manifesto library.
00:01:03.000 Now, I would assume that Dua Lipa's actual literary acumen is low.
00:01:10.000 I do not think, based on her lyrical command, that Dua Lipa is sitting around reading the collected volumes of Shakespeare or that she spends a lot of her time reading past pages.
00:01:20.000 I think that if you had a picture of Dua Lipa reading these books, it would look like that montage of LeBron James reading books in the locker room, where it's just he's reading the first page of every book.
00:01:28.000 Well, Dua Lipa explained her manifesto library.
00:01:35.000 Hi, I'm Dua Lipa, and this is the Manifesto Library, a partnership between the Service 95 Book Club and Livaria Lelo Porto.
00:01:46.000 Livaria Lelo has been a source of inspiration for over a century.
00:01:50.000 Dreamers, radicals, and artists have passed through these doors.
00:01:54.000 Works of activism, reimagining, and dissent have found a home on these shelves.
00:01:59.000 There is no more fitting place for the Manifesto Library to live.
00:02:04.000 In this library, you will find 100 books that ask questions or have been questioned.
00:02:10.000 The collection is organized in four chapters Power, Control, Voice, and Memory.
00:02:16.000 You're probably not surprised to hear that George Orwell's Animal Farm was considered anti communist propaganda and banned in the USSR by Stalin.
00:02:25.000 But maybe you are more surprised to learn that 1984 was considered pro communist and banned by a parents' group in 1981 in Jackson, Florida.
00:02:34.000 A book removed from a shelf in the USSR and a vocal parents' group.
00:02:38.000 The same.
00:02:39.000 Whose stories are carried forward and which lives are believed to be worth understanding.
00:02:44.000 So take your time, look closely, and decide for yourself what belongs on these shelves.
00:02:51.000 Well, I mean, I can't decide.
00:02:52.000 She decided.
00:02:53.000 She decided.
00:02:54.000 And what did she decide?
00:02:55.000 She decided on something that is just a series of books that are completely in conflict with one another, which is pretty wonderful.
00:03:03.000 So she's got the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, right? 0.67
00:03:06.000 Not Rushdie's best book, by the way, but probably his most famous book because it resulted in an Iranian fatwa against him.
00:03:12.000 That eventually would involve him being stabbed in the eye. 0.56
00:03:15.000 She's got that, but she also has We Are Not Numbers, the Voices of Gaza's Youth, which is basically an apology for radical Islam, as long as it is quote unquote anti imperialism. 0.98
00:03:27.000 She has The Handmaid's Tale, of course, because obviously Christians are terrible and bad and fundamentalist and all of that. 0.77
00:03:38.000 But she also has George Orwell's 1984, which is about the evils of communism. 0.96
00:03:45.000 So, it's a mess.
00:03:48.000 None of this is particularly informative.
00:03:51.000 Listen, I do think that famous people giving out their book lists is kind of interesting because it gives you a window into what they think.
00:03:57.000 But the thing about Dua Lipa and celebrities like her is that the chances she's read of these 100 books, 10 are extraordinarily low. 0.81
00:04:05.000 She's got somebody who's picking these, and the people who are picking these are people who have the dumb lawn sign in front of their house.
00:04:11.000 And then they just pick a bunch of Maya Angelou books and then other books they may once have heard of in a lecture about books that were once banned by a parent's group in Jacksonville, Florida, or something. 0.86
00:04:23.000 Just silly talk.
00:04:26.000 This is what President Obama does with his listening list every year, where he puts out a bunch of songs that clearly he has not listened to. 0.92
00:04:32.000 It's the same shtick all the time.
00:04:35.000 So I guess congrats to Dua Lipa on her bookstore.
00:04:39.000 I'm sure that her clientele will be number, they will be rushing through the doors to buy books.
00:04:44.000 And one of the great sadnesses of my life is the fact that people no longer read books.
00:04:48.000 This is a very, very sad thing.
00:04:49.000 Joe Biden, I know he's still traipsing around, sort of, stumbling around.
00:04:54.000 Well, he has announced the launch of a book.
00:04:57.000 Okay.
00:04:58.000 Did not know that the auto pen could write books now, but apparently, yes, it is called Promise Me.
00:05:02.000 America, which the comma comes after me.
00:05:05.000 So it's Promise Me America, which is actually the publisher's fix.
00:05:08.000 Originally, his book was titled Promise Me America.
00:05:12.000 In any case, Joe Biden put out a little statement that involves many jump cuts talking about his book.
00:05:21.000 I've written a book about my time as president.
00:05:23.000 It's called Promise Me America.
00:05:26.000 It's coming out in November and it's available for pre order now.
00:05:31.000 Oh, great.
00:05:33.000 It's about the challenge we face as a nation.
00:05:36.000 About the decisions I made and why I made them.
00:05:42.000 I can barely speak English at this point.
00:05:44.000 Every.
00:05:45.000 Leading the country through code.
00:05:47.000 It's less than 30 years old.
00:05:48.000 Restoring our democracy after the attack on January 6th. 0.99
00:05:51.000 Ending our nation's longest war in Afghanistan.
00:05:56.000 Strengthening the United States.
00:05:58.000 And supporting Ukraine.
00:06:00.000 It's about why I chose to run for re election and why I chose to step aside.
00:06:08.000 Most of all, it's about my faith in the promise of America.
00:06:13.000 Oh, man.
00:06:14.000 The promise we made to those of Gandhi Forest is to honor their sacrifice.
00:06:22.000 They would have made this man president again.
00:06:25.000 They would have.
00:06:25.000 They would have.
00:06:26.000 They tried to lie about it.
00:06:27.000 Again, you want to talk about why America's faith in our institutions completely fell off a cliff?
00:06:31.000 This is a big reason.
00:06:32.000 The entire media covering up the fact that was perfectly obvious to human eyes that Joe Biden was ailing.
00:06:38.000 He cannot get through.
00:06:39.000 A simple minute long ad for his book without 1 million jump cuts and a bunch of stock footage.
00:06:45.000 And even when he's talking, it sounds as though he's eating with his mouth filled with oatmeal.
00:06:50.000 It's crazy.
00:06:51.000 It's crazy.
00:06:53.000 Now, I will admit, I'm not sure which I dread more Joe Biden's new book or a new documentary about life with MTG.
00:07:01.000 Are you here for Life on the Road with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
00:07:04.000 Good Times at the Gym with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
00:07:09.000 Oh boy, here we go.
00:07:14.000 We're going to the Big Apple.
00:07:17.000 Things get heated on the view. 0.85
00:07:19.000 Americans are sick and tired of funding Israel's genocidal wars that are killing children and children. 0.86
00:07:26.000 Shocker. 0.75
00:07:27.000 A trip to Lady Liberty.
00:07:29.000 What an honor it is to see the Statue of Liberty.
00:07:33.000 And MTG visits famous Salvo.
00:07:35.000 Salvo.
00:07:36.000 Coming up on this next episode of Life with MTG.
00:07:40.000 Let's go.
00:07:42.000 That's so exciting.
00:07:42.000 Oh my God.
00:07:43.000 She's going to a restaurant.
00:07:44.000 She's going to see a site that literally tens of millions of Americans have seen.
00:07:48.000 She's going to talk about the Jews. 0.75
00:07:50.000 Oh, man, life with MTG.
00:07:52.000 I don't know.
00:07:53.000 It doesn't seem like the most interesting life.
00:07:54.000 I got to be honest with you.
00:07:57.000 In terms of people who deserve a documentary crew following them around, documenting the magic of their daily life, I feel like MTG is not at the top of that list.
00:08:07.000 That is some pretty low rent stuff right there.
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