Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Dennis laments the title of his book Still the Best Hope.  People need respites.  If you think you’re always right… you will live an unfulfilled life. It is important to know your own blind spots and trust others who do not share them.  Fame is fleeting.  The differences between males and females are special and necessary.  If you believe it, you can achieve it… this is nonsense.  Guardrails are m...

Dennis spent the week at Jordan Peterson’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference in London… PragerU’s new short documentary, “Detrans” has outraged the Left… The Democrats have an antisemitism problem.  Happy people make the world better… The best antidote to evil is happiness… Is there a relationship between happiness and decency?  Issues raised include: about your analysis on hon...

Carl Jackson guest hosts for Dennis… Let Israel do what it needs to do. And what it needs to do is to reduce Hamas to an impotent force just like Trump and the US military reduced ISIS to impotence…  How about a cease fire in St. Louis, Baltimore, or Detroit. These places have absurdly high murder rates. They’re all run by Democrats.  The debt bomb keeps getting bigger. It won’t be pretty when it...

Mark Isler guest hosts for Dennis… How do we explain the moral confusion on college campuses? The answer is our education system. It’s been terminally corrupted by leftist ideology. If you subject kids to hour after hour, day after day of leftism, why do you expect them to believe anything else?  Events on the last few years — the Russia Hoax, the lockdowns, the January 6 prosecutions — have shatt...

Bob Frantz guest hosts for Dennis… Why are we funding the United Nations? Why do we host the UN on our soil? It is an antisemitic organization. It has been for decades.  Jewish students at colleges like Cornell, Cooper Union, and others don’t feel safe. Viral videos prove that their fears are legitimate. What are the colleges doing about it? Almost nothing… Where are students who support Hamas get...

Carl Jackson guest hosts for Dennis… Diversity is not our strength. But it may be our downfall. We have lost control of our immigration system… A lot of bad actors are coming into the country, and we’re not stopping them. This is not going to end well.  Another political judge insists that President Trump has no right to free speech… Why don’t we hear more about the American hostages in Gaza? It’s...

Does saying one went to Harvard carry the same weight it did two years ago?  Will you pressure your children to attend an elite university?  The cancer of Leftist thought is eroding once respected institutions.  How bad do things need to get before average Americans wake up to the danger of the Left?  Every country has issues… most of the United States’ issues are contrived.  If you are great at s...

The NY Times is in a panic because the Republicans elected a conservative Speaker. The Times accuses Speaker Johnson of “Trumpism,” which is the worst thing you can say about anybody… The only people who fear Joe Biden are conservatives… Everything was better under President Trump. That’s a fact.  Life is a rollercoaster of emotions. To be happy, you have figure out ways to smooth out the ride. De...

Another mass murder. This time in Lewiston, Maine. 18 dead. Many wounded. Why do we have so many murderous crazy people? Dennis talks to David Johnson, DEI whistleblower for Project Veritas. His new book is The Diversity Con: The Secrets and Lies Behind the Shady DEI Industry.  Does it matter if the Maine mass murderer is insane? He obviously knows what he did was wrong or why would he flee? You c...

Israeli government showed raw video footage of the Hamas massacres to international reporters… Brandeis student government won’t condemn Hamas… It’s very hard for people to stare at evil. It’s not too dark; it’s too bright.  What does your spouse do that drives you, well, crazy? What do you do that drives your spouse crazy? Callers have answers.  A Stanford biology professor announces that we have...

The “moderate” Palestinian Authority calls on West Bank Imams to urge their adherents to “kill all Jews.”…Bill Maher blasts elite colleges for their response to Hamas massacre… Dennis talks to Kari Lake. She’s running for the US Senate from Arizona.  Our educational continues to break down, especially in the blue states. And no state is bluer than Oregon. The state lowers standards once again to a...

Jewish leftists are shocked that their leftist friends aren’t bothered by Jews being slaughtered by Hamas… A majority of Muslim Americans support Hamas, according to a new poll… Dennis talks to Dinesh D’Souza, filmmaker and podcaster. His new movie “Police State” comes out today.  Dennis reflects on Dinesh D’Souza’s comment that the police state began with the Patriot Act which came into being aft...

Dennis postulates that much of life’s pain comes from surprise… that’s why it’s so important to have a realistic view of the world.  People tend to think they are immune from things that happen to “the other guy,” but you are “the other guy.”  Dennis recalls a speech at a London synagogue where he realized most people believe that being a good religious person provides some level of protection fro...

Thirty million Americans say they are okay with violence to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president again, according to a U. of Chicago poll… In a Tik Tok video a liberal woman laments that all the masculine men she knows are conservative…  We’re giving Hamas a $100M to be used for “humanitarian” purposes. Hamas controls everything in Gaza. We have no idea what they will do with anything we g...

The legacy media can’t quite make up its mind. Was the rocket that hit Gaza hospital from Hamas or from Israel. Does it matter that overwhelming evidence indicates that the rocket came from Gaza…. 65 German police were injured in Berlin during a pro-Hamas riot in Berlin…  Dennis talks to the President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). His new book is The Canceling of t...

A hospital in Gaza was hit by rocket. Many were reported killed. Immediately, the left blamed Israel. But it turns out that the rocket came from Gaza. Israel had nothing to do with it. Does the truth matter?  Why do some men fear marriage? Why do some women? Dennis has theories. So do callers.  Dennis talks again to Mark Helprin, Senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and one of America's foremo...

New York City lowered its educational standards and then celebrated when students scored much better this year than last year.  But their “improved performance” is phony. The Left has destroyed our educational system from pre-school through grad school.  The President is going to Israel tomorrow. His statements re: Israel have been very positive. But his position re: Iran before the Hamas massacre...

CA now has a law that prevents teachers from disciplining kids who disrupt school classrooms… Nobody spoke about a “cycle of violence” during World War II. Why do we speak about it now? Isn’t the question, who started the war?  Dennis takes a break from the news to talk to David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, the writers and directors of the classic comedy Airplane! Their new book is Surel...

Dennis and Julie were deeply troubled by the developments between Israel and Hamas.  The number of Israelis killed in the Hamas attack is the largest since the Nazis in the Holocaust.  Dennis and Julie are baffled by groups that blame Israel for the conflict.  The American Jew is disappearing.  Israel is the canary in the world’s coal mine.  We should be the most enlightened people to ever live… g...

Prominent Harvard University alumni on Monday denounced a pro-Palestinian statement from students that blamed Israel for violence engulfing the region and urged the university to act against the signatories… Harvard says its students' letter does not speak for university.  A billionaire alumnus calls for halt to donations until UPenn leaders resign over ‘anti-Jewish hate.’  What did your parents d...

Leftist student groups reflexively signed on to condemning Israel and praising Hamas. But when they were roundly condemned, especially by alumni, many backed down. “Oh, we didn’t really mean it.”…Israelis were lulled into complacency because they believed Gazans wanted a better life. Many were working in Israel.  There are Jews who support Hamas, that’s the equivalent of black Americans being pro-...

Dennis highlights a column in the City Journal by Juliana Geran Pilon… the efforts of mainstream media, government officials, and elite universities to avoid outright condemnation of Hamas reveal a West at war with itself.  Dennis also analyzes NYT’s Bret Stephens’ latest column: The Anti-Israel Left Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself.  Can a husband tell his overweight wife that she should lose...

Did the 6-billion-dollar prisoner swap with Iran last month help fuel the terrorist attack on Israel?  Dennis is joined by Eugene Kontorovich, Prof of International Law at George Mason. He’s a PragerU presenter, Does Israel Occupy the West Bank? He lives most of the year in Israel and is there now.  A ‘reprehensible’ anti-Israel protester chant ‘Gas the Jews’ took place outside the Sydney Opera Ho...

Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Saturday, murdering 800 Israelis, many at a “Peace Festival.” Hamas is not a “resistance movement.” It is an antisemitic death cult… More innocent Jews were killed on Saturday than any day since the Holocaust.  Dennis replays his famous PragerU video, The Middle East Problem. It’s as true today as when it was first made. One side wants the other dead, that’s the...

Dennis and Julie ask… when did it become uncool to get old?  Wanting to look younger makes sense… but acting younger is not dignified.  You can judge a society on how they treat the vulnerable.  Julie recalls some takeaways from her visit to Oklahoma for a speech.  The truth is good… not something to fear because it’s uncomfortable.  In some cases, empathy has become toxic. Music: Straight to the...