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By Alana Mastrangelo – 3 Jun 2025 – Breitbart PragerU CEO Marissa Streit explained that the Department of Education “exists as a slush fund for the teachers unions and the educational elite, and as a laboratory for social experimentation on our kids,” … Continue reading PragerU CEO Marissa Streit Explains Why Department of Education Must Be ‘Shut Down’
Dr. Scott Atlas– 5-Minute Videos – Mar 24, 2025 – Prager U Trust in public health officials and scientific “experts” is at an all-time low. No surprise, given the disaster of the COVID lockdowns. So, how should the government respond … Continue reading COVID Lockdowns: The Real Cost
By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Thursday, September 5, 2024 Women who visit emergency rooms after taking abortion pills are more likely to be seen for serious medical problems than their cohorts whose pregnancies end with surgical abortions or live births, according to newly released research. A peer-reviewed study of Medicaid-eligible women by researchers at the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found they were “significantly more likely to have a severe or critical acuity rating” within 30 days of using the two-drug abortion protocol than were other women seen at ERs. That includes women who had recently given birth; undergone surgical abortions or visited the emergency … Continue reading Study finds 75% of women treated at ERs after taking abortion pills rated ‘severe or critical’
Joel B. Pollak = 1 Oct 2024 – Breitbart Conservative radio host and author Dennis Prager has published a 15-page letter that he wrote to former colleague Candace Owens, confronting her about her recent antisemitic statements and her crusade against Jews and Israel. The letter, according to Prager, was made public with Owens’s consent after she failed to respond for several weeks. It is dated September 3, 2024. In it, Prager debunks many of Owens’s outlandish claims, including medieval blood libels about Jews murdering Christian children, and the idea that Israel exists to protect pedophiles. Prager concludes: You may not … Continue reading Dennis Prager Confronts Candace Owens on Antisemitism in 15-page Letter
By Dennis Prager – January 9, 2024 7 min read – Creators.com My cmnt: This column was written months before the derelict-in-chief and puppet-president Biden was forced to retire from the 2024 presidential campaign by Nancy Pelosi among other democrat leaders. Joe … Continue reading Joe Biden’s Scary Speech on Jan. 6
By Dennis Prager | Aug 13, 2024 – Townhall.com This past weekend, two biologically male boxers won gold medals in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Imane Khelif of Algeria won the gold medal in the women’s welterweight division. … Continue reading The Woke 2024 Olympics: Where Men Were Allowed to Punch Women
Dennis Prager | May 14, 2024 | Townhall In medieval Europe, Christians who hated Jews spread the lie that Jews kidnap Christian children, slaughter them, and use their blood to bake matzos for Passover. This lie became known as “the Blood … Continue reading The Genocide Libel Is the Blood Libel of Our Time
Dennis Prager | May 07, 2024 – Townhall.com My cmnt: Dennis calls them “sick Jews”. That is too mild a description so I changed it to the more appropriate term “deranged”. He explains below why some Jews hate other Jews for being Jews. I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews. When one observes Jews who defend those whose raison d’etre is the annihilation of the one Jewish country on Earth, you have to ask: Why are there … Continue reading Some Jews are simply deranged
Robert George5-Minute Videos – Nov 29, 2021 – Prager U Was America founded to be a secular nation? In other words, does religion have no role in American politics or public policy-making? The answer is more complex than you might think. Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explains. (This video was made possible through our partnership with Dallas Baptist University.) It has become a dogma of progressive ideology that America is a “secular” nation. What do people mean by secular? Their argument goes this way: “Since the Constitution establishes a strict separation of church and state, religion has … Continue reading Is America’s Government Secular?
Robert George 5-Minute Videos – Oct 04, 2021 – Prager U If you ask Americans to name their country’s form of government, most of them will say they live in a democracy. However, the real answer is more complicated (and … Continue reading The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic
Robert George5-Minute Videos – Jul 18, 2022 – Prager U Winning the War of Independence brought a new challenge to the American people: what sort of government should they choose for their new nation? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explores the problems the founders faced at this pivotal moment in history. Against all odds, the Americans won their War of Independence. But their success brought a new challenge—no less daunting. What sort of government should they choose for themselves? How could they ensure that the tyranny of the English king George III would not be replaced by … Continue reading The Constitution: Why a Republic?
Judith Curry – 5-Minute VideosApr 15, 2024 – Prager U Let’s start with the good news. All things considered, planet Earth is doing fine. In fact, humans are doing better than at any other time in history. Over the last hundred … Continue reading The Good News about Climate Change
Alex Epstein5-Minute Videos – Oct 19, 2015 – Prager U Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem? Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy? To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful. For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and … Continue reading Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?
Should the world stop using fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas? Or should we embrace them as an essential part of modern life? Alex Epstein explores these questions. Alex Epstein5-Minute Videos – Apr 17, 2023 – for Prager U The world needs more fossil fuels—more oil, coal, and natural gas. Not less. Does that sound crazy? It’s actually not—not if you employ one common-sense principle. It’s the same principle you use when you decide whether to take a prescription drug. Carefully weigh the benefits and the negative side effects. If the benefits of using fossil fuels outweigh the negative side … Continue reading Fossil Fuels: The Big Picture
Judaism and Christianity are the only two religions that share a sacred text and a fundamental set of values. These values created and sustained Western Civilization. But now many want to discard them. If we do, at what cost? by Dennis Prager – Prager 5-min videos – May 22, 2023 Have you ever heard the term, “Judeo-Christian values?” I suspect you have. Can you name any of those values? I suspect you can’t. But you should because Judeo-Christian values are the moral foundation of Western civilization. As the great British prime minister Margaret Thatcher put it: “The truths of the … Continue reading What are Judeo-Christan values?
My cmnt: As a Christian informed by the Biblical values enshrined in the confessions of the Reformation I fully understand the significance and uniqueness of the Holy Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. My cmnt: The American Trinity, as follows in this video by Dennis Prager, is a brief and insightful summary into the foundation and greatness of the American Experiment. No, not the creation of Frankenstein’s monster, but rather the creation of a nation uniquely founded on an idea not a particular race or ethnicity. So here it is from Dennis. Race and ethnicity have defined every nation … Continue reading The American Trinity
5 minute videos – Prager U – Oct 28, 2013 My cmnt: There were two great cities that heavily influenced Western civilization: Athens and Jerusalem, that is Greek philosophy and the Judeo-Christian worldview as expressed by Moses, Jesus and the Apostles. Tertullian’s two most famous expressions: “what has Athens to do with Jerusalem” and it is “to be believed because it is absurd” aside these two cities represent two great truths that must guide our conduct and culture: Faith and Reason. Faith represents our presuppositions and Reasons represents our ability to reach valid conclusions from our limited data. My cmnt: If our presuppositions (our … Continue reading Is Evil rational?
The old demented prune himself By HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN – 25 Dec 2023 – Breitbart My cmnt: Please click the link above for the entire article with images and videos. Normalizing gender dysphoria quickly became a top priority of the Biden administration, particularly in 2023. But perhaps what made it seem worse was the overt targeting of children, as the Democrat’s administration made clear several times throughout the year. Here are eight instances of the Biden administration promoting — and even championing — gender confusion on society’s most vulnerable and sometimes going as far as scolding parents who oppose his … Continue reading 8 Times the Biden Administration Pushed the Transgender Agenda on Children
Stephen Cornils 5-Minute Videos Dec 24, 2018 – Prager U My cmnt: Wartburg Theological Seminary, where Cornils teaches, is a nearly completely Biblically Leftwing institution. This means that they do not believe the Bible to be a supernatural document, to … Continue reading How the Reformation Shaped Your World
David Brog 5-Minute Videos Mar 27, 2017 – Prager U If Israel just allowed the Palestinians to have a state of their own, there would be peace in the Middle East, right? That’s what you hear from UN ambassadors, European … Continue reading Why Isn’t There a Palestinian State?
Lee Ohanian 5-Minute Videos – Oct 09, 2017 – Prager U Did President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal economic policies pull the country out of the Great Depression? My research clearly suggests that the answer, contrary to popular belief, is no. … Continue reading Did FDR End the Great Depression?
James Meigs5-Minute Videos – Jul 24, 2023 – Prager U My cmnt: Nuclear waste in the United States is neither dangerous nor burdensome yet it is being demagogued by the Left (i.e., The Simpsons is a prime example) because they … Continue reading How Dangerous Is Nuclear Waste?
By Dennis Prager – Oct. 11, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: The foremost authority on the philosophy of Darwinism, former UC Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson, spoke, wrote and lectured about worldviews. He stated whoever gets to tell a culture its creation story gets to tell those people what is real and what is not. Conservatism in the West started with the presupposition “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Leftist worldview is primarily concerned with positing and establishing atheism. The Left holds the presupposition that in the beginning were eternal particles operating under … Continue reading Explaining Conservatism
That is the case when it comes to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. My cmnt: I agree with the author, Amity Shlaes, that FDR was a horrible president at home. As the transcript below shows he was a command-n-control, communist-loving autocrat when it came to battling the Great Depression, a depression that HE made great, by his domestic policies. Like Obama and especially O’Biden he handed out goodies from the treasury and by government policy to voting blocks who tended to vote democrat. My cmnt: However I disagree that he was a great commander in chief. He and his hand-picked generals made … Continue reading A great commander in chief abroad does not always make a great president at home.
by Michael Brown | Oct 14, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Michael Brown is an ethnic Jew who has converted to Christianity. People like this are sometimes called Messianic Jews as they now recognize that Jesus was a Jew sent primarily to the Jewish people as their long awaited Messiah. Jesus is also the Savior of the world and the gospel was designed to break down the barrier between Jew and Gentile and to create one new Man out of the two – a Redeemed Christian. My cmnt: Dennis Prager is an also an ethnic Jew who practices conservative Judaism and … Continue reading What Dennis Prager Got Wrong About Transgender Identity
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By Dennis Prager | Posted: Aug 30, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Of course the democrat party is actively seeking to overthrow America as founded and since they stole the election from Trump, the best and most competent president … Continue reading Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country
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By Dennis Prager – Posted: May 19, 2020 12:01 AM In a recent “Fireside Chat,” my weekly talk show on the PragerU platform, I commented on society’s increasing fixation on being “safe.” The following is a condensed version of what I said: We have a meme up at PragerU: “‘Until it’s safe’ means ‘never.’” The pursuit of “safe” over virtually all other considerations is life-suppressing. This is true for your own individual life, and it is true for the life of a society. I always give the following example: I have been taking visitors to Israel for decades, and for all … Continue reading Some Thoughts About Being Safe
Dennis Prager |Posted: Jan 25, 2022 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Among the many unbridgeable divides between Americans is a completely antithetical view of mask wearing. On one side are those who wear masks almost everywhere outside their homes and who demand that others do so, including young children in class and on outdoor playgrounds, and 2-year-olds on airplanes. On the other side are those who only wear a mask where they are punished for not doing so (most obviously, airplanes). They regard masks as essentially pacifiers for adults. Generally speaking, these two groups have disdain for each other. Why … Continue reading Why the Masked and the Unmasked Have Disdain for Each Other
Dennis Prager | Posted: Nov 02, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious. Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong? Yes, I am. As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let … Continue reading Is Stealing Wrong? Not on the Left
Dennis Prager | Posted: Sep 28, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Nearly fifty years ago I was given the book “The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom. It had a profound effect upon me then and to this day. Corrie and her sister and father gave up their home, their wealth, their freedom and their lives to hide the Jews of Holland from the Nazis. Only Corrie survived to tell the tale. There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in … Continue reading Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
by Hugh Hewitt – for Prager U Name this president. He created the Environmental Protection Agency and put real teeth into the Clean Air Act. Environmentalists called him the most environmentally conscious national figure since Teddy Roosevelt. He was admired, sometimes revered, by civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson. He desegregated southern schools and vigorously enforced civil rights laws, often against his own political interests. His grasp of foreign affairs was acknowledged by both friend and foe to be unmatched. He opened US relations with Communist China; signed the first nuclear disarmament agreement in history; and … Continue reading Some perspective on President Richard Nixon
By Gloria Alvarez Aug 02, 2021 – for Prager U Che Guevara is the face that launched a billion T-shirts. Even now, more than fifty years after his death, he inspires would-be revolutionaries and social justice warriors. Why is his appeal so enduring? Guatemalan radio and TV host Gloria Alvarez explains. My cmnt: Here is a typical example of false information from the Left-leaning Wikipedia entry: Ernesto “Che” Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion … Continue reading Who Celebrates Che Guevara?
By Carol Swain, May 22, 2017, for Prager University. My cmnt: I’ve edited this for clarity and corrected the part about Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. You can watch the original video by clicking Prager above. When you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party comes to mind? The Republicans? Or, the Democrats? Most people would probably say the Democrats. But this answer is incorrect. Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, … Continue reading The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party
Andy Puzder Mar 04, 2019 16m views – for Prager U My cmnt: Some things to note about this lesson from Prager U. This was produced in the best economic year in America virtually ever. It was made at the height of President Trump’s Renaissance of America (i.e., Make America Great Again) and boy did he ever. Everything President Trump was doing was producing more peace and more prosperity in America and the world. President Trump was unleashing real hope and real change after 8 sorry years of Obama decline. My cmnt: Then came the over reaction (by democrats) to … Continue reading Capitalism vs. Socialism
By Dennis Prager -Jun 07, 2021 – for Prager U My cmnt: In honor of Father’s Day on Sunday June 20, I post two columns reminding us of the importance of fathers to their children and the larger society. Here is the other one. Until recently, the need to explain why fathers are necessary would have been regarded as, well, unnecessary. But that’s not the case anymore. Dennis Prager explains why this isn’t just concerning—it’s dangerous. Are fathers necessary? For all of recorded history, the need to explain why fathers are necessary would have been regarded as, well, unnecessary. It … Continue reading Are Fathers Necessary?
The decades-long “Cold War” (1947-1989) between the United States and the Soviet Union was so named because the two global powers never came to direct blows. Yet, the war was not without its victims. In fact, millions of Cubans, Koreans and Vietnamese suffered under Communist tyranny. In this video, renowned British historian Andrew Roberts explains why “The Cold War” could just as easily be called “The Third World War.” by Andrew Roberts Aug 12, 2018 3.2m views – for Prager U From the end of World War II, the United States and its Western European allies were involved in a … Continue reading What Was the Cold War?
What would America look like if the Left got everything it wanted? What would America look like if the Right got everything it wanted? PragerU’s Will Witt fleshes out each of these scenarios in this provocative thought experiment. By Will Witt Jun 15, 2020 2.4m views – for Prager U There are crazy positions on the far left and crazy positions on the far right. On the left, there are people who believe a man can get pregnant; that the world is going to end in a decade if we don’t cap carbon emissions; that the real purpose of the … Continue reading Who’s More Radical: The Left or the Right?
What was the Korean War? And why was America involved in such a faraway conflict? Was the United States’ sacrifice–35,000 killed, over 100,000 wounded–worth it? Historian Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, shares the fascinating story of the transformative war that many have forgotten. By Victor Davis Hanson May 30, 2016 7.4m views – for Prager U Mention the Korean War today and most people will look at you with a blank stare. At the time it was fought, just five years after World War II ended, everyone recognized it as a world-shaping conflict, a stark confrontation … Continue reading Why Did America Fight the Korean War?
By Victor Davis Hanson May 29, 2017 4m views – for Prager U The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat. No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster. Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for … Continue reading Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?
By Bruce Herschensohn Jun 23, 2014 10.6m views – for Prager U Decades back, in late 1972, South Vietnam and the United States were winning the Vietnam War decisively by every conceivable measure. That’s not just my view. That was the view of our enemy, the North Vietnamese government officials. Victory was apparent when President Nixon ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb industrial and military targets in Hanoi, North Viet Nam’s capital city, and in Haiphong, its major port city, and we would stop the bombing if the North Vietnamese would attend the Paris Peace Talks that they had … Continue reading The Truth about the Vietnam War
By Ty Seidule Aug 09, 2015 34.5m views – for Prager U Colonel Ty Seidule, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point Was the American Civil War fought because of slavery? More than 150 years later this remains a controversial question. Why? Because many people don’t want to believe that the citizens of the southern states were willing to fight and die to preserve a morally repugnant institution. There has to be another reason, we are told. Well, there isn’t. The evidence is clear and overwhelming. Slavery was, by a wide margin, the single most … Continue reading Was the Civil War About Slavery?
By Hugh Hewitt May 24, 2021 29.1k views – for Prager U My cmnt: Note the striking parallels between the elite, Washington press corps (for Obama that word is pronounced KOR) and their treatment of President Nixon and their similar … Continue reading What was Watergate all about?
Dennis Prager|Posted: Jul 14, 2020 12:01 AM for Townhall.com The left-wing charge that America is a racist country is the greatest national libel since the Blood Libel against the Jews. America is, in fact, the least racist, multiracial, multiethnic country in world history. Neither the claim that America is a racist society nor the claim that it is the least racist country can be empirically proven. Both are assessments. But honest people do need to provide arguments for their position. I have found every argument that America is racist, let alone “systemically” racist, wanting. For example, the police almost never … Continue reading 5 Arguments Against ‘America Is a Racist Country’
By Dennis Prager – July 20, 2020 – 7 min read – on Creators.com My cmnt: I have another post on this site about race hoaxes and hate crime laws. The Left in this country and the world does not really care about poverty, equality, the environment nor race. Yet they use these hot-bottom issues to stir up trouble and gain power. America, whom the Left hates with a burning hatred, has done more to ameliorate these human failings than any other country on earth – so naturally they want to destroy her. Both bogus and sad. My cmnt: The three … Continue reading If America Is So Racist, Why Are There So Many Race Hoaxes?
Ten years ago, it was unlikely that you knew someone who identified as transgender. Today, it’s unlikely that you don’t know someone who identifies as transgender. This is especially true of teenage girls. Abigail Shrier analyzes this disturbing trend and its implications. By Abigail Shrier – May 29th, 2021 683.2k views – for Prager U If you know any middle or high school girls today—or if you are one yourself—it would not be surprising if you know someone who identifies as transgender. The latest statistics indicate that 2% of American high school students now identify as transgender—and the overwhelming majority … Continue reading Why girls become boys
Think of all the horrors of the 20th Century: The Holocaust. The Bolshevik Revolution. The Cold War. Were it not for the assassination of one Austro-Hungarian archduke in 1914, none of those events would have ever happened. Historian and author Andrew Roberts explains. By Andrew Roberts Dec 31, 2018 3.9m views – for Prager U As an historian, I’m often asked if I could stop one event in modern history from happening, what would it be? My answer is World War I. If there had been no World War I, there would have been no Russian Revolution, no World War … Continue reading WWI: The War That Changed Everything
by Dennis Prager – Feb 02, 2010 – for Townhall.com Ten years ago, I wrote a column reflecting on my reactions to visiting Vietnam. Given the lack of revulsion to, and even flirtation with, communism (or its more mildly named version, socialism) among many young Americans, it is worth revisiting. It was difficult to control my emotions — specifically, my anger — during my visit to Vietnam. The more I came to admire the Vietnamese people — their intelligence, love of life, dignity and hard work — the more rage I felt toward the communists who brought them (and, of … Continue reading Trip to Vietnam Reconfirmed My Hatred of Communism
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