Dave Rubin

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David Joshua Rubin (born June 26, 1976) is an American political commentator, comedian, and host of The Rubin Report, a YouTube interview series focused on politics, culture, and free speech that has exceeded 3.1 million subscribers as of October 2025. Originally a progressive comedian, Rubin shifted toward classical liberalism, emphasizing individual rights, limited government, and skepticism of collectivist ideologies, particularly those he associates with authoritarian excesses on the political left. His program features discussions with diverse guests, including politicians, intellectuals, and critics of mainstream narratives, amassing billions of views and earning YouTube's Silver and Gold Play Buttons for subscriber milestones. Rubin has authored two books promoting independent thinking amid cultural pressures: Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (2019), a New York Times bestseller, and Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Age (2022). As an openly gay married man, he challenges orthodoxies within both left-wing and conservative circles, advocating for empirical reasoning over ideological conformity in public discourse.

In brief

Dave Rubin started in rooms that were not conservative and ended as a host who says the word proudly. The Rubin Report is a simple format: a table, a guest, a long hour.

He has written about the walk from one camp to the other. The interesting part for this archive is the craft — a comedian’s timing applied to political talk, night after night.