David Rubin

David Joshua Rubin (born 26 June 1976) is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator.

He is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, a political talk show on YouTube and on the network BlazeTV.

Rubin was born on June 26, 1976, in Brooklyn, New York City.

He grew up in a "fairly secular Jewish household on Long Island".

He spent his adolescence in Syosset, New York, and then he resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for thirteen years.

He attended Binghamton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science.

In 1997, he also spent a semester at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel.

In 1998, Rubin started his career in comedy doing stand-up and attending open-mics in New York City.

In 1999, he became an intern at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

In 2000, Rubin continued his career at the New York City–based Comedy Cellar.

Later that year he joined with other Comedy Cellar comedians to create a public-access television series, a news program parody called The Anti-Show which was secretly filmed at NBC Studios in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

In 2002, he co-founded several New York City–based comedy clubs, including Joe Franklin's Comedy Club and The Comedy Company in Times Square, where he continued to do stand-up until 2007.

He was the host of two podcasts, Hot Gay Comics and The Ben and Dave Show, which were turned into a television series on the here! television network.

Previously, Rubin hosted LGBT-themed talk shows, including The Ben and Dave Show from 2007 to 2008 and The Six Pack from 2009 to 2012, both of which he co-hosted with Ben Harvey.

Rubin has written two books.

Rubin originally considered himself to be a progressive while part of The Young Turks.

However, Rubin has written that his views began to change after witnessing progressive commentator and former colleague Cenk Uygur's criticisms of Fox News commentator David Webb, Ben Affleck's confrontation with Bill Maher and Sam Harris over their views on Islam, and the political left's response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

Rubin then described himself as a classical liberal, but has since stated that he has become a conservative, later embracing libertarianism.

Rubin has become a staunch critic of progressivism, the political left, and the Democratic Party.

In 2022, Rubin registered as a Republican in Florida.

In May 2009, Rubin co-created and co-hosted the podcast The Six Pack. From October 2011 to December 2012, The Six Pack was on Sirius XM Radio as a live talk show.

While a part of Sirius XM, Rubin created his own account on YouTube called "Rubin Report" in early September 2012.

Launched in 2013, his show was originally part of TYT Network, until he left in 2015, in part due to widening ideological differences.

In January 2013, Rubin joined The Young Turks, where he hosted the show The Rubin Report. He moved from New York City to Los Angeles, California.

On March 1, 2015, The Young Turks YouTube channel announced that Rubin would be moving to the media company RYOT.

Shortly after, Larry King's Ora TV picked up the show which debuted on September 9, 2015.

In 2015, Rubin launched The Rubin Report.

On his show, Rubin interviews and speaks with journalists, activists, authors, comedians, and professors.

Topics discussed on his show include freedom of speech, political correctness, foreign policy, and religion.

Guests on his show have included Sam Harris, Ben Shapiro, Larry Elder, Steven Crowder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Douglas Murray, John McCain, and others.

He left Ora TV in 2016, opting to run The Rubin Report independently.

The Rubin Report has an affiliation with the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, a Koch family foundations–funded organization which sponsors an episode of his show per month.

Rubin frequently appears as a speaker at events hosted by Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization.

Rubin has been a podcast guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, Coffee with Scott Adams, and The Ben Shapiro Show.

In 2017, he starred in a video by the conservative media company PragerU titled "Why I Left the Left".

Rubin's book Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason was published in April 2020 by Sentinel.

It made The New York Times Best Seller list, but was critically panned.

In December 2021, Rubin sold his Los Angeles house and announced that he was moving to Miami, Florida.

In his announcement, he criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom as an "unbearable tyrant who dared to extend his emergency powers and then immediately take a $200,000 vacation."

He also cited "high crime", "high taxes", "vaccine passports and mask conformity" as reasons for his decisions to move from California.