Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU.
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I am writing this column upon returning home to California after five days in Florida. For the first time since my first trip to Los… Read More
SecurityCommentary
I always thought no one—including Israel—could pull off something as incredible as the raid on Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. To remind readers what… Read More
EducationCommentary
Regarding race and much else, America’s students are not taught history. In fact, they are not taught; they are indoctrinated. With anti-Americanism. The purpose of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
One way in which yesterday’s presidential election can be summarized is this: It was a contest between those who hate Donald Trump and those who… Read More
EducationCommentary
As far as HuffPost and the rest of the American left are concerned, no non-left-wing idea should be allowed to enter an American school. Not… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There are conservatives who lie, and there are liberals who lie, but both conservatism and liberalism hold truth to be a supreme value. This is… Read More
LawCommentary
Exponential growth. It’s why plagues are so dangerous and compound interest is so wonderful. It’s also why the Democrats’ flirting with court-packing could destroy the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week included Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. It is meant to be a time of intense self-examination. In light of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A few months ago, I noticed that my published column spelled “black” “Black.” As I had submitted the column with “black” spelled with a lower… Read More
SocietyCommentary
All of my life, I have said that the left’s moral compass is broken. And all of my life, I was wrong. Why I was… Read More
SocietyCommentary
As long ago as the 1970s, I came to a major realization. While watching fellow students at Columbia University demonstrate not just against the war… Read More
Health CareCommentary
More than two years ago, I wrote a column titled “Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins.” I listed eight examples: —The universities. —The arts: music,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
What are the two most hated countries in the world? America and Israel. Who hates both America and Israel? The left (and Islamists). And why… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Harvard professor of psychology Steven Pinker tweeted last week: Belief in an afterlife is a malignant delusion, since it devalues actual lives and discourages action… Read More
SocietyCommentary
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… Read More
SocietyCommentary
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here”—referring to fascism). It’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, there were 35,676 COVID-19 deaths in the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A statement widely attributed to the great British thinker G. K. Chesterton describes the modern period as perfectly as any single idea can: “When people… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Since we are all stuck at home for weeks, here are some suggestions to help you and help America. Watch less news. Interview and opinion… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once. The latest, of course, is COVID-19,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A few weeks ago, I devoted my column to an article about me published in Newsweek under the headline “Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank.”… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In the latest edition of “The Rubin Report” podcast, two people I adore, commentators Dave Rubin and Heather Mac Donald, dialogue about some of the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask? Most religious people… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I began part one of “Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?” with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Here are some unhappy statistics: —In America between 1946 and 2006, the suicide rate quadrupled for males ages 15 to 24 and doubled for females… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In my last column, “Newsweek Hits a New Low,” I wrote about Newsweek’s dishonest description of what I had said on one of my weekly… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If decent people working in mainstream American media want to know why many Americans do not trust them and are willing to use the term… Read More
EnergyCommentary
It is not easy to understand what the left—as opposed to liberals—stands for. If you ask a Christian what to read to learn the basics… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Many on the left (as opposed to liberals) have been warring on Christmas for more than a generation. Leftists always deny there is a war… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We all know some individuals who are so obviously good and kind that we are certain if anyone were to dislike them, that’s all we… Read More
