Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Dennis and Julie delve into music… it is generational.  Julie’s Spotify list is changing as she ages.  Dennis believes classical is best and doubts anything at the top of iTunes would hold his interest.  Ben Shapiro showed up at a Podcast Movement event; the organizers apologized for the trauma his presence caused.  Words like trauma and pain are overused by the Left.  Dennis couldn’t stand small...

A new study suggests that Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will cost not $300 billion, but $1 trillion. What’s $700 billion between friends?... California and Washington won’t allow gas powered cars to be sold after 2035. And for what? A vanishingly small lowering of temperature — maybe.  Dennis talks to Jon Mellis, a January 6 political prisoner who is in jail in Washington, DC. He has been...

The Democrats say that President Trump pushed for fast approval of the vaccine by the FDA before the 2020 election. Presumably, the current president would never have done such a thing. But if the vaccine is so wonderful, shouldn’t President Trump be praised?…  White college educated voters is the new, core constituency of the Democrats… The Washington Post shames parents who don’t accept that the...

The President has wiped out student loans for millions. It will cost half a trillion dollars and that’s probably the low estimate. What about the suckers who actually paid off their loans? Or the people who didn’t go to college because they didn’t want to take on debt? Dennis was at LAX yesterday where they still require masks, but, according to Dennis, very few are paying any attention… Dennis ta...

Carl Jackson sits in Dennis and focuses on negative rights versus positive rights... government health care is nice, but you do not have a guaranteed right to health care.  If it's given by the government... it can be taken away.  Carl is joined by Julie Kelly of AMgreatness.com to discuss the conviction of two men for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020,  and a possible Tr...

American Express has gone full woke. They’re hardly alone, but that hardly makes it any less depressing. It’s a revered American company…  Despair is the only emotion that is not allowed in the fight against the Left… Dennis talks to Cicely Davis, candidate for the fifth congressional district in Minnesota. She’s running against Ilhan Omar.  A Beverly Hills boutique bans masks. Why? Thieves have b...

One may have a messy desk and a clear mind.  How DO you to spell Nietzsche?!  Dennis and Julie delve into their high school athletic experiences, and both agree having coaches toughens you up.  One of the greatest traits you can teach your child is resilience.  Affluence has made us weak...we’ve taken America for granted.  People despair… the importance of the sabbath is more crucial than ever.  J...

Yesterday Dennis recorded the first of a series of lectures he’s doing for The Daily Wire. He’ll be covering big, timeless themes like the consequences of secularism… 600 physicians, almost all women, sign a petition asking the media not to report on or talk to those who hold a pro-life position. They say the science is settled. What science?... Dennis talks to Amala Ekpunobi, host of the Unapolog...

A flash mob loots a 7-Eleven store in Los Angeles. This sort of crime now barely makes the news. Violence has been normalized… Cities are dying as the result of lawlessness. San Francisco, Portland, and Cleveland are good examples…  Michael Hayden, former CIA Director, says Republicans are the "most dangerous force" he’s ever encountered. This is a manifestation of that dread disease, TDS.  Have p...

The Left lives for chaos. If it doesn’t exist, the Left will create chaos. It’s obsession with Donald Trump is a perfect example: Russia Hoax, two absurd impeachments attempts, now the unprecedented Mar-a-Lago raid… Dennis talks to Elaine Parker, Chief Communications Officer for Job Creators Network about the absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act. Boston Children’s Hospital is engaging in the wor...

Trump-deranged Lynn Cheney lost big yesterday. Her finger-wagging Trump hatred was thoroughly rejected by ordinary Wyoming residents… The legacy media defends Boston Children’s hospital and its promotion of its trans agenda… Dennis talks to PragerForce member, Cam Higby, Tik Tok influencer… until Tik Tok deplatformed him.  It’s okay for men to dress up as women for five-year-olds — Drag Queen Stor...

Minneapolis Teachers Unions will fire white teachers first in their search for “equity.”… Dennis talks to Nathan Hochman, Republican candidate for Attorney General of California. He served as an Assistant Attorney General under the Bush Administration.  The Democrats are firmly in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome. They will do anything to destroy the 45th President. TDS is behind the Mar-a-L...

Are you a character, is it genetic, or can it be learned?  Dennis’ theory on having theories… like Julie, he wanted to understand life at an early age.  Dennis and Julie were taken by an email from a young fan.  Only good people acknowledge goodness.  Many on the Left disregard free will and avoid confrontation.  Living a good life will lead to having no fear of death.  Love is a false God… religi...

Novelist Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked by a Muslim extremist… The Left and Islamists have a lot of common…  If the Covid crisis proved anything it’s that many Americans want to be told what to do. They prefer security to freedom. This is a disturbing development… UCLA Law School is tracking organizations that oppose CRT… Dennis talks to Pattie Barrett, member of the PragerU advisory board. ...

The Inflation Reduction Act does everything but reduce inflation. It’s a great example of Orwellian “Newspeak.” It means the opposite of what the Administration says it means… 87,000 new IRS agents (also in the bill) is the greatest expansion of federal police power in decades, maybe ever… No more Pledge of Alliance in Fargo, ND…  In our secular age kids are taught that their biggest problem is so...

Half the country has lost faith in the FBI as a non-political institution. It now acts like the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. This is a terrible development and very scary…Dennis talks to Dan Henninger, columnist for the Wall Street Journal and member of the paper’s editorial board.  We are in the middle of a non-violent civil war. It will be settled this time by people moving to states...

Imagine if Trump had sent the FBI into Hillary’s home… the “mainstream” media would have gone apoplectic.  Denmark has announced that people under the age of 18 are no longer allowed to get the COVID vaccine.  Julia Spies, a PragerFORCE member, joins the show.  She has really enjoyed being able to have deep conversations with PragerFORCE friends about politics, philosophy, faith, and so much more....

The Left believes the FBI is a weapon of mass destruction for destroying their opponents. They raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday as part of an investigation into his handling of classified information…   “What is the difference between this and Watergate…,” said Trump.  California is no garden of Eden. It is now over-woke… both the rich and poor are fleeing.  Gavin Newsome is goo...

Dennis and Julie discuss being vulnerable in today’s culture.  Does having a hobby require a certain level of vulnerability?  Dennis observes that while men rib each other… women do not.  Hook up culture benefits one sex… and it isn’t women.  Men desire variety, how can that lead to monogamy?  Is sex before marriage a sin? Dennis believes there are gradations of sin… all evil is sin, but not all s...

The Democrats have proudly passed a massive new spending bill and then have the nerve to say it will reduce inflation. And now I have a bridge I want to sell you… Dennis talks to Adam Carolla, comedian and popular podcaster. His new book is Everything Reminds Me of Something: Advice, Answers...but No Apologies.  Los Angeles has come up with a truly suicidal new homeless plan: force hotels to house...

The Democrats are about to pass a massive spending bill which is just a smaller version of the Green New Deal. It’s absurdly called the Inflation Reduction Act, but there is no chance it will reduce inflation. In fact, all it will do is raise our energy costs.  Is there a correlation between political views and happiness? Dennis has theories. So do callers.  Issues raised include: is “Judeo-Christ...

Carl Jackson guest hosts for Dennis… The Democrats have shown us their cards. They want to obliterate the American way of life. Republicans can’t think about compromise because the Dems have no interest in compromise. Time to stand firm… The new Biden spending bill will weaponize the IRS against Dems’ opponents.   The new Biden spending bill will be a disaster for small business… What is our forei...

There were primaries in Missouri, Arizona and Michigan yesterday. The results were mixed, but mostly positive… On the Left, America is bad; Communism isn’t… Electric cars might be great, but they’re not Green… George Soros defends spending millions to get “reform” prosecutors elected in the Wall Street Journal. His arguments are incoherent.  When a man marries, he sacrifices his desire for other w...

Today is Dennis’s birthday. Naturally, he has reflections… Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan. Why did she go? No one from the Administration seems ready to answer that question. We don’t have enough tension in the world today?... The World Economic Forum doesn’t want you to own a car.  In the last five years, China has become less and less free and more and more belligerent toward the US… Dennis talk...

Dennis and Julie discuss the desire to always keep learning.  Strive to do what you love for a living.  Passionate individuals are infectious… the passionless are boring.  Dennis did it his way, unafraid of the pressure to conform to societal norms.  They lament the effects that masks have had on public interactions.  The politicization of everything in society has killed social relations.  Is Fac...