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?

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