Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Biden excuses another $5B in student loans. It’s a slap in the face to all those who acted responsibly and paid off their owns. It’s also in defiance of Supreme Court decision. Who’s a threat to our Constitutional government, again?… Fast food prices are going up in California. Many restaurants are in real trouble. Problem is $20 minimum wage.  Blaming others for your problems keeps you from happi...

The head coach of the New England Patriots sees color before he judges someone. This is Kendi-ism; it’s not American. You can’t be a clear thinker and be a leftist… A judge has prohibited any home improvements in Beverly Hills until the city builds more “affordable housing.” Who gave the judge this power? Where does it say in the Constitution that a city must build “affordable housing.”  “Killing...

Jordan Peterson has lost his free speech case in Canada. He can now lose his medical license if he doesn’t submit to their re-education demands. He vows to fight this absurd decision. Canada has been lost to the woke… Lies are the credentials of the left... UK Youth turning skeptical about Global Warming Alarmism. PragerU is referenced as one of the chief villains.  Most young people are told that...

Donald Trump won a landslide victory in the Iowa caucus. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley finished a distant second and third... Dennis talks to Leonard Grunstein, former founder and chairman of the Israel Discount Bank and Farley Weiss, Chairman of the Israel Heritage Foundation. Their new book is Because It’s Just and Right: The Untold Back-Story of the US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of...

Martin Luther King deserves his own special holiday. But so do George Washington and Abraham Lincoln… Bret Stephens, a full-on Trump despiser, makes (to his great credit) an excellent case as to why so many Americans find the former president to be such an attractive candidate… The world of the left is the world of lies.  Dennis continues with his deconstruction of Brett Stephens’ brave NY Times c...

Dennis and Julie examine the free market of ideas.  Virtually everyone has a podcast …is that a good thing?  It’s a good thing that one must earn their audience.  It is also good to have such variety... that you can follow what you like.  It’s great to find your niche… but is that splintering us as a society?  It seems like there’s more access to information everywhere… but are we less informed? ...

Medical schools around the country are steeped in DEI thinking. UCLA is just the latest example. How does DEI make doctors more skilled at their profession?... Is “positionality” a word? It is in the DEI world… The Left has put the Ku Klux Klan out of business… Mr. Science, Anthony Fauci, admits the 6-foot rule had no scientific basis… We finally hit back at the Houthis in Yemen.  Many people thin...

Pizza Hut lays off all its drivers in CA as the state hikes its minimum wage to $20 an hour. Doesn’t help to get more money if you lose your job… American Anthropological Association goes full woke. Add one more institution to the list… A record number of police officers were shot last year. Who wants to be a cop these days?  The Left demands that you to cover up the truth: lie about systemic raci...

With all its flaws, Western Civilization has been a great blessing to mankind. We all benefit from it. It’s not easy to explain why so many people despise what makes their life possible… EU nations are woefully unprepared for any military confrontation… Dennis talks to Julie Kelly. She writes the invaluable “Declassified” Substack.  What one New Year's resolution would you like your spouse to make...

Dennis talks to Roger Simon, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, novelist, and columnist for Epoch Times. His new book is American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States.  Some leading “Covidians” are now having second thoughts. Maybe they over-reacted. Maybe?... Michelle Obama is terrified that Trump might win. Would she run against Trump if Biden were drop out...

Pro Hamas demonstrators defaced a veterans cemetery in Los Angeles… An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for not wearing a hijab. This is the nation that has made its national mission the destruction Israel… The NY Times does a story on marriage proposals. Half the couples are straight. Half are gay.  President Biden gave his first 2024 campaign speech on Friday in Valley Forge, PA. Comparing himse...

Dennis and Julie discuss surrogacy.  Why would one say that surrogacy is immoral?  Is there a religious argument against surrogacy… what about concubines in the Old Testament Abraham/Hagar?  They discuss the legalization of prostitution… trafficking is evil, but prostitution is a sin.  People don’t fight real evil.  When it comes to adoption – do girls seek out their birth mother more than boys? ...

A mob in Compton, CA destroyed a bakery. And then activists complain about “food deserts.” That’s how to make one…  Germany is impoverishing itself over a Green Fantasy… ISIS claimed credit for murdering dozens of people in Iran.  Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution and kept it. If so, did it make you happier? Callers have stories.  Issues raised include: you should talk more about the back...

Claudine Gay rushes to the race card to explain why she lost her Harvard job. The board of that once august institution is as responsible for its decline as its ex-president… Dennis talks to Peachy Keenan, former studio writer, now conservative commentator and full-time mom.  She presents the newest PragerU video, “Wife, Mother, Extremist.”  Another major study concludes that there is no significa...

Mark Davis guest hosts for Dennis… Mark speculates about what’s ahead of us politically.  It appears Trump has a commanding lead in the primaries. Do DeSantis or Haley have a chance to overtake him?... If Trump is nominated is there anything the Dems won’t do to stop him?  Our Southern border basically doesn’t exist. We’re not enforcing our immigration laws. What is the Biden Administration’s obje...

Israel is an island of decency in a sea of moral corruption. Everyone knows this. But many are afraid to say it, cowered by the left into silence… Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist, lives in leftist fantasy world in which the left has very little influence over our institutions…  Ohio governor Mike DeWine embarrassed himself and the Republican Party when he vetoed a bill banning transition surgery...

Dennis and Julie discuss the importance of enjoying what you do.  Getting yourself into more than you think you can handle can lead to great things.  Push yourself… be ambitious.  You can live a full life, or a safe life… not both.  Taking silly risks is bad… but conversely, waiting for “safe” can be paralyzing.  Dennis talks about his son’s sobriety – his son said that hitting rock bottom was whe...

This is a secular holiday, but it can meaningful if you make resolutions. Dennis talks about three categories of resolutions – health, happiness and character.  We defeat ourselves before we start because we think that if we can’t keep our resolutions, why start? But if you make a resolution and keep it for, say, three months isn’t that better than doing nothing? Dennis’s mom calls in with a sugge...

The Secretary State, a Democratic partisan and former ACLU activist, unilaterally kicks Donald Trump off the Maine ballot. She’s convinced he’s an “insurrectionist.” But he’s never been charged with “insurrection,” let alone convicted. No one has… Mike DeWine, Ohio’s Republican governor, vetoes legislation banning transgender surgery on minors. What a disgrace.  Is the state of the country and the...

Professors at the U. of Minnesota want the United States to be returned to the Indians… Dennis wrote a column almost two decades ago for the Los Angeles Times about antisemitism on college campuses… Even the NY Times is getting worried about uncontrolled illegal immigration… A San Diego Mosque broadcasts pure antisemitism.  After Christmas over $1 trillion of items were returned. That’s five times...

An obese woman buys two seats for herself on a flight. But gets grief when she won’t turn over her second seat to a squirmy toddler… A Christmas Day massacre took place in Nigeria. The murderers weren’t white, or colonialists or Jews, so the UN doesn’t care… The Air Force believes “wartime” preparedness depends on DEI. Since when?  Dennis opens the lines to callers to raise any subject on their mi...

Dennis describes the joys and benefits of smoking cigars and pipes. Callers have their own stories. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast July 27, 2005.  Should you wait to start eating until others at the table have their food? This makes no sense to Dennis. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast November 1, 2005  What if you want to get serious about religion but you don’t know which...

Dennis and Julie celebrate how wishing someone a Merry Christmas IS inclusive… and lament how paralyzed people have become… they don’t know how to respond to “Merry Christmas.”  NBC did a documentary on Prager U …mainstream news is so distorted.  Julie shares: “Theses or Feces” University administrators are so unimpressive.  The height of narcissism is one saying that having a Christmas tree is no...

Dennis Live on Christmas Day. Dennis takes calls on the issue of religion. Issues raised include: does the Bible really advocate the stoning of disobedient children; what distinguishes the three Jewish denominations; what is the Jewish view of Mohammed; does God really need people to bow down to him; why do the three faiths of Abraham have so many conflicts.  Dennis continues to take calls and ans...

Fewer Americans than ever describe themselves as religious. Fewer follow a particular religion. This is not without consequence. Look around: does it seem like we are living in a more moral society?... How can we persuade people to take religion, and specifically the Bible, more seriously?  Why, according to almost every study, are religious people happier than people who are not religious? Dennis...