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Ben Kawaller

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  • Essayist, Playwright and Screenwriter, Freelance
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As seen in: Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan, Substack, The Times, Los Angeles Magazine, The Advocate Magazine, AllEvents, The Free Press, RacketNews
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Ben Kawaller’s Biography

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Ben Kawaller's writing and video reporting have appeared in the New York Post, Racket News, the Times (UK), and The Free Press, for which he hosted and produced the sociopolitical interview series Ben Meets America and the 2024 election series Swing State Debates. He's contributed humor pieces to The American Bystander, The Advocate, and Salon, among others.

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The End of LGBTQIA?

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By Ben Kawaller Verified, Matthew Boll, Andy Mills
| Substack
I’m Ben Kawaller, and for the next three weeks, Longview’s Reflector podcast is gay. I know: Is nothing sacred? Must even Reflector – easily the most heterosexual podcast on the internet, the brainchild of two midwestern men whose greatest obsession is ChatGPT – curtsy to the gods of inclusion? Look, a story’s a story, and this is a good story. But we’re gonna have to get a little gay.
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No, Pointing Out that Working-Class Immigrants Aren't Hip to Socialism Isn't Racist

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By Ben Kawaller Verified
| Substack
Last month, the New York Post sent me out to talk to the people about Zohran Mamdani, the wildly popular, and also widely disliked, democratic socialist who won the Democratic New York City mayoral primary.
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"It Feels Like I'm In a Body That Isn't My Own": Voices From the NYC Pride Parade Post-Skrmetti

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By Benjamin Ryan, Ben Kawaller Verified
| Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan
[Note: For the love of god, people, please **be respectful** to the people we interviewed for this video. Thank you—Ben] “Let me tell you what puberty does to your mind: I had to slowly watch myself transform into something I hated.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern at New York Magazine

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Probably as a prop in a play

What does it mean to be a journalist?

I'm working on figuring that out for you all.