09:34 AM CDT on Monday, October 11, 2004

Name: Ben's Blog

Find it at: www.benjaminshapiro.com

Blogger: Ben Shapiro, a 20-year-old law student at Harvard University who describes himself as an "Orthodox Jew, virtuosic violinist and hack golfer." Shapiro's been a syndicated columnist since he was 17 and published his first best-seller, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth, this year.

About the site: Shapiro is reliably conservative and hews closely to the GOP line. What sets him apart from fellow bloggers on the right are his entries on what it's like to be a conservative at a liberal university.

Not feeling the love: A liberal blogger known only as Tbogg has nicknamed Shapiro "The Virgin Ben" and regularly ridicules him at www.tbogg.blogspot.com.

Quotable: "Politically uninformed young people go to classes simply to get their A's and then go for a beer. They don't take into account the political biases of professors, or attempt to research the other side of the story."

Steve Kenny