Dave Rubin

Dave Rubin in 2019

David Joshua Rubin is an American libertarian political commentator who calls himself a Classical liberal.

Early life and education

Rubin was born in 1976 to a secular Jewish family in Brooklyn. He finished high school in 1994. He got a degree in political science in 1998. In 2000, Rubin started doing stand-up comedy and continued until 2007. He then started hosting podcasts. In 2012, Rubin started his own show on YouTube called The Rubin Report.

Politics

Rubin always said he was a liberal but was annoyed when other liberals became too left-wing and a lot were not angry about violence people on the left used against Ben Shapiro. Rubin calls himself a Classical liberal. Rubin supports gay marriage and marijuana being legal but only thinks abortion should be legal when the fetus can't yet survive on its own. Rubin also supports free speech.

Personal life

Rubin is gay and married to a man named David Janet. He used to call himself a "gay atheist Jew". Since then he has said that because of Jordan Peterson he isn't an atheist anymore.

Frequent Guests

The people Rubin has interviewed on his show more often than he has interviewed anyone else are Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Gad Saad and Ben Shapiro.

Dave Rubin Media

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  Dave Rubin during a live taping of 'The Rubin Report' at Politicon in 2015.

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  Dave Rubin Live - Danube Institute