America and of course it ised considered conservative but its a good example of how the best word i could use is twisted our vocabulary. To too many people that will sound odd a conservative institution one of the first to admit of course thats because thats what conservatives stand for. Anyway, i have this connection which i founded five years ago and im proud to say 140 millioa views this year. We are trying to do fiveminute courses with somfive minutecourt minds in america. We are trying to do something and that is to undo some of the damage the universities are doing so we have a rough professors have given courses including some in the audience. Lets stick with education for a minute and this is something you wrote just last month. One of the murde murdered wot things you can do in the universities o america would be better off if youve earned that money. I mean it literally and with tears because i plead guilty to being an intellectual. The life of the mind has been central to my life. I must own a 5,000 books. I wanted to touch peoples lives but i didnt care much about money but i felt it was rich that was. This isnt a line. It now anand now indoctrinated r than educate. As a result, your kid will leave college if they took any humanities courses they will leave believing the two greatest on earth are the United States y and israel, two of the greatest in the world that are so twisted its broken. I live in california and los angeles and ucla you cant get a ba in english without having read one play because multiculturalism, the notion that all are equal has taken over the universities. So why would you concentrate on dead white european males fle . We have so much time can i develop this more. Im involved in Classical Music in southern california, so the chief music critic of the New York Times had a piece an in it was the ten greatest composers. I just wanted to know who would he choose and was it similar too my choices. They were mostly similar. He was only the father of the symphony and along with the father of the extreme court, the piano trio, the giant of giants and he said i know the readers will ask why did we include x. Y. And z. And the answer is i just didnt want to take too many german composers. Ge so instead because hes hungarian and french this is how they think so it isnt a list of it is the ten best. It is a list of diversity, not a quality and thats what you now get at universities you dont get quality, you get diversity. Why should we study shakespeare, there are guatemalan poets have been neglected. I could give you any number of reasons but those are two examples. Does that go to the issue of Political Correctness . Entirely even as i pointed out for my radio listeners even Political Correctness is a politically correct term. What i does politically correct meme . Not offensive to the left. What is the difference between the left and liberals . John f. Kennedy was a liberal, not a leftist. I was a little boy at the time he was inaugurated, he was a hero of mine. A little less here awake today that i cant get rid of that sense of excitement when i see videos of him or pictures or read about him. In any event, truman was athe go liberal, the great senator from Washington State henry jackson, the great senator from new york Daniel Patrick moynihan who was the first to say we have a calamity. This is a democrat and a liberal senator from new york state but a Major Intellectual i might add and he was the first to point out we have a serious crisis. And thats when it started. But the liberal would say that at that time. A leftist says you are a racist for pointing that out. It has to do with truth. I may have disagreed with them but they loved the truth. If you say that you are not considered a liberal, you are called a racist. I have this acronym is vomit phobic racist bigot that is all a leftist needs to know. They dont need to debate you come and they dont. What they do is label you one of those things, people are afraid of being labeled one of those things that i am no but i am not happens. And therefore it shuts down. That is the Political Correctness means a lot of liberals of leftists. Host you write that leftists has become a kind of religion. Guest i believe the most dynamic religion if you understand this, i think you understand the world of the last century in the last 100 years, the most dynamic religion in the world has not been christianity or islam, it has been lifted some. Its taken over the worlds education, the worlds media, the worlds news media, the entertainment media. Its taken over virtually everything. So much so i believe this and i backed it up with facts i think. Pope francis has catholic theology that his value system is left. He has deep antipathy to capitalism, the only thing thats ever raised people from poverty, the only thing that has and last month this was mind blowing really sad because if we lose the Catholic Church come a tremendous number but if we lose the church, we have lost a pretty important institution. Pope francis said in a french Catholic News Service he was asked about the priest who had his throat slit, it had just happened. Ph he said look, we have people baptized catholic who kill their girlfriends. Are we going to say catholics are killers . Theres no issue that they say one who cuts the throat of a priest thats the same as a guy that happens to be advertised catholic who kills his girlfriend. This is from the pope of the Catholic Church. That host what is your definition of conservatism . Guest you wish to conserve the best of the past. Thats the broad a definition for that which transcends the United States within the United States it is an affirmation of the american trinity as ive come to call it. Its found on every coin and banknote. Liberty and in god we trust. If you conserve those three you are a conservative. Host is there a libertarian streak . Guest not dominant characteristics im sure they are religious libertarians but this is a part of the crisis in conservatism is in fact the greatness and they bring them on my show and i advocate their works and i learned from them but the great majority of the great conservative thinkers today are all secular. They dont realize the indispensability of god and i dont speak as a man of faith. If i were an atheist i would say that im saying. What im saying. America will not survive without god, i dont believe in a talk. It will because you cant have small government without a big god. People will either be responsible for their behavior to god and religion or to the oe government because people are not basically good which by the way is the fundamental difference or a fundamental difference between left and right. Gh be on the right understand people are basically good and people on the left are naive, they believe people are basically good and the overwhelming foolish belief is held in the bloodbath. We understand how are you going to have a good Society Given the laws of nature people will either be responsible for their behavior to god before i was born throughout American History the highest compliment you could pay is that this is a godfearing man, a godfearing woman. If you said that today to a college kid they would in no what youre talking about a. Of godfearing, what does that mean, but that is what was understood so either you are godfearing or government fearing. The founders including jefferson and franklin knew that and therefore they understood without religion making People Better the government will get bigger and bigger and american liberty will die. Thats whats happening. Host since we are here at the Hillsdale College in michigan this is from your book sink a second time becauselege schools recognize the general inability to cultivate love of learning they bribed students with both monetary and nonmonetary rewards card placement on the deans list, generous scholarships and all sorts of academic awards. Guest i wrote that. Well, thats the truth. I dont mind it by th either wai i dont know how you raise kids without bribes. Im totally in favor of bribery. Read tempest and i will give you 15. Its a great deal as far as im concerned to. It go host what should a College Student now after four years ofu college . Is there something mandatory . Guest i dont know if itat still exists but there was a course that was mandatory if you didnt know the basis of western civilization basically a that is what forms the last. Its attitude towards politics and for its ethics and that combination. If i said what does it mean to s say athens and jerusalem they would think that i say to her agent. They wouldnt know what im talking about. There is no sense of what are the pillars of our civilization or that its better. Western civilization has been morally superior. You cant say that on a campus today. You cant say that anywhere onat the left. As if it has anything to do with race and then they will say what about Nazi Committee reject western civilization was anit ws attempt to undo it. They blamed the jews for christianity which they ultimately hated and most followed hitler as a disgracee but it doesnt mean that they were pro christianity. It was pro swastika not cross that we dont teach this any longer. People dont know about the greatness of the civilization. When i was in tokyo i went to a performance and i got the last seat i will never forget because the sales guy knew a Little English and he looked at me ande said you are very lucky. And the reason i render, i gote the last seat in the place. If you know the greatest interpreters today tend to be japanese, the greatest series of which there are hundreds of hundreds was done by a guy named suzuki and its generally regarded as the greatest interpretation because the japanese if you said to them that the greatest music they are not going to see japanese music. They will say beethoven. I dont have a vested interest of having written the greatest music. Its just true. Whether i like them or dislike them look at the trivia that we have now preoccupied ourselves with. Guatemala didnt produce just like by the way i can see this so you cant yell at me has been selfaggrandizing. They became the greatest countr and was founded by protestants, not catholics, not jews, not muslims, atheists. It was founded by christians. Thats a fact. And if we get rid of christianity, we will get rid of america. There is a jew that goes to synagogue every saturday telling you this. Host what is the torah . Guest the basis of everything the west is founded on. When you think of the creation story, adam and eve, noah, the patriarchs, moses, the Ten Commandments, it all comes fromn the torah. Im glad you asked because i now feverishly working on the end om my 35 year project to write an explanation of the torah and by it is relevant to everyonepl including people born in tibet. It will be an explanation of the greatness of those books at least a thousand pages. I am working on it every free moment of my life and those five books from where we get Love Thy Neighbor as yourself but i will deal with the hard parts. Its as if you have a rebellious son, bring him to the court ando they will stone him. So everybody looks at a sentence and says if you believe in the 3,000 year old nonsense thats 3000yearsold but its not nonsense. I will answer that verse. Ss for the first time in human historhistoryhistory its next au cant kill your child. It was actually brilliant because until then, you could do whatever you wanted your child. It took it out of the hands of parents and gave it to the court and no jewish court in history executed a child. Host her most recent book is on the Ten Commandments. Are they transcended as well . Guest in their source, yes. If ultimately and i explained that the book is out and the ten videos are at the university. I explained if they ultimately it says before the Ten Commandments are given its size and these are the words that god spoke. If god doesnt say dont murderd murder isnt wrong. Ive explained that. Ha every atheist philosopher ive debated has acknowledged that his true. Because ethics are subjective if there is no god. Host what are the Ten Commandments in order . Guest im going to give the jewish order because they botboth attend the jewish and christian order are different. A the jewish order is i am the lord your god do not have any other gods, do not, and i explained do not take his namese in vain. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness and do not covet what belongs to your neighbor. Host what is the planation . N . Guest this is one of the reasons im so adamant on getting the commentary out on the torah. People think the commandment is to not take gods name in vain. By the way, intense because god will not forgive whoever takes his name in vain. Its the only says he will not forgive. And what do people think it means . If somebody says oh my god, what a crappy day at the office, or go my god, did you see that the shortstop did, they think they are violating this commandment and if they are serious that god will not forgive them, so he will forgive murder but not if you say oh m zero my god what a homerun . Like me offer a very upsetting the thought that several religious people, god has common sense. Though its a revolutionary thought to many religious people who have the most crazy ideas about what god actually believes. So, god cares if you say oh my god what a homerun, you think hes bothered by that . Thats not what it is and i know the hebrew like they know english. It is do not carry gods name in vain. It has nothing to do with saying it in vain. Kerry is gods name in vain, the person who acts religious an does evil. Therefore that is the only sin god will not forgive, doing evil in his name. That makes sense. Host from your book thet Ten Commandments we have as many false gods as the ancients did. Guest we do. Remember, false gods a very touchy subject because you dont like to mess around with peoples gods. Again people think made a false god and they will say money. Y. Money is not a false god. Nobody, no one contends that the worship of money is good. So it may be a god that nobodyhh believes that its a dog. People may live for it but no one contends that it is to worship. So that isnt a false god. Its a terrible value system to live just for money. You want a false god i will give you a false god, the earth, nature. Nature is a false god. People today worshiped nature. The whole point of genesis one is that god is the author of nature. God is to be worshiped, not nature. Its the whole point of the genesis and that we ought to conquer nature because if we dont, nature will conquer us. This notion that the nature is wonderful and we are a blight on it, nature isnt wonderful. Animals kill animals routinely. Cancer spreads, earthquakes are all around. We have to subdue nature to make a good life. There was just an article, another silly article in the New York Times about how we should give up air conditioning and live in basements where its a little cooler. Ive been to 20 african countries and have a deep affliction and if you asked one me ask you something what you take air conditioning knowing what a Carbon Footprint you are producing if you had air conditioning in your home . He would laugh you out of his house and i would laugh you out of his house with him and we would both fit and comfort in his airconditioned room. We would laugh and comfort. The whole southern renaissance was made possible because of aif conditioning. But people believe this stuff. So the whole i am for protecting the environment but im not an environmentalist, that is the name of environmentalism. The environment in thereligion judeochristian world the environment was created for man and the secular environmentalists world man is a blight on the environment. Thats why they are doing it again dont have more than one child. Host back to the Ten Commandments, still the greatest moral code above. The history of the human race has not been morally impressive. Guest thats right. Its only ignorance or Wishful Thinking that could lead you to any other conclusion. Take slavery. Slavery was not just ubiquitous, it was universal. Every society that we know of. In other words, people believe i have the right to own you, use you, do whatever i want. Every society had back. In the vast majority is until the judeochristian west develops further, women were close to cattle and this is just a little of it. Torture, rape, mass murder, i mean how many people know about slavery in the islamic worldic d which was ubiquitous in the western world it doesnt comport with what universities want to teach and undo the truth that the west is best. Heres what i would say to students. They all know the founders had slaves. The question in history sincesl everybody had slaves it tells you nothing about a society. It tells about human nature butt nothing about society. Its who stopped slavery. Same thing with poverty. The question in the historyhing isnt who is poor, everybody was. But the question was did anything ever uplift people from poverty and the answer is the west again, capitalism. Socialism has never made anybody rich except for the socialist parties. Socialism spends with capitalism may. Lism host good afternoon and welcome to book tv on cspan2. We are live in michigan talkingc with author, radio talkshow host and professor he is our guest on indepth. This is a chance for you to get to know one author, his or her body of work and you can call or text with your questions. The author of the spooks the nine questions people ask about judaism is his first book that camcame out in 1986. Think a second time, 1996. Anppiness is a serious problem, 1998, and then applied to choose the reason for antisemitism came out in 2003. His bestseller still the best hope why the world needs American Values to triumph came out in 2012 and his most recent book just came out last year the Ten Commandments, still the besi moral code. If you want to participate in the conversation this afternoon there are several ways. First we will put th their phone numbers up. 202 7488200 in east and central time zones. Central ti 7488201 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. You can also text a question. This is only for texting, not phone calls. 202 8386251. 202 8386251. You can text a question or comment. If you would com, put your cityd first name so we can identify you that way. A couple more ways to get out os usd these are all social media. Booktv cspan. Org and we have a Facebook Page with lots of comments already. Facebook. Com booktv. And finally, twitter and booktv is our twitter handle. You can make a comment there as well. Weve also hear frowe will alsoe audience at wholesale college. Once you get a question and want to Say Something come right up. Dont be shy about that we will begin those in just a little while. August, 1969 a train in finland, what happened . Guest i was 21yearsold and i was beginning my intense travels. Its the only thing i boast about and i totally acknowledge it. Ive been to 128 countries. It was a dream of mine since high school i wanted to see every country in the world, so im on my way. Yway, anyway, before i married, i traveled alone, which is in and of itself a fascinating thing because although it is much more pleasant to travel with my wife, there is a uniqueness to traveling around alone that subjects you to far more fascinating but actually funny experiences because you have to interact with the culture but thats another subject. What happened in the helsinki was the weekend of my birthday and this is what happened. Ive got to give you a little background. I was raised an orthodox jew and went to an intense jewish orthodox learning. You go from 9 a. M. To 5 p. M. Ntel every day and in one of my schools that concluded sunday. Thats how intense it was. Half the day is in hebrew jewisd jewish studies and the other half is english secular studies. So i have this training. I never chose to be a rabbi that i was always i alwaysllenging challenged myself. Wh when i left my parents house at the age of 22 study in europe, i decided because i never wanted to hurt them i decided i am going to experiment with dropping all of the jewish virtual law, not ethical. I wasnt going to hurt people but for example kosher which is a big deal, so i dropped everything and i dropped the sabbath and one night i came down from lapland to helsinki and it was a friday night. La when i arrived in helsinki, i saw a sign that said it was friday and it hit me this is empty. I dont want friday night to be like wednesday night or tuesday night or monday night or sunday night. I wanted to be my sabbath. And ive realized then how much i missed it. I didnt go back to the full orthodoxy and i do think ane orthodox jew and. I realized then taking 24 hours a week out of normal life was going to keep me sane and it has to this day. I am frequently on cnn for example, so they already know if they invite me in fo invited mey evening with a check when the sun sets i in los angeles. Its very adorable by the way. I will get a message we saw the sunset in la, can you come on at seven, and thats sweet of them. Ive only got respect for the fact i dont broadcast on the sabbath for example. Sometimes its hurt my career but its like a non issue to me. Its in the Ten Commandments. I take it seriously. Host from her book why the jews when non jews understand hatred that they will understand hatred of the jews served as mankinds Early Warning system of great evil. Guest its just true. I dont say things because i am something. Just as i said earlier its christians that founded america. Jewthe jews have played a wondel role and so have others but im a big fan of truth. This is the truth. If no one jews dont understand that those that hate the jews os the jewish state are bad, they are bad people and they are coming for you next. Had they understood is about 50 million wouldnt have been slaughtered in world war ii but there was dismissed as the jewish problem. He was the jews problem tha buts wasnt only their problem. The israel hatred is the exact same thing. Nd i dont think criticism. Everybody is free to criticize anybody all they like, but if you come up with a lie likeif israel commits genocide, which is as big as the medieval libel of jews that they killed children for their blood for passover, its as big as that. The palestinian population has quadrupled. Ssover. Its like the antithesis of genocide. Like if you were countered by the u. S. , you do well. Youd do well. U look at japan and germany. So, the israeli and jewish haters are bad people and if you cant say that, you are a fool and he will be hurt. Thats the way it works. First they come for the saturday people. This is the islamist rhetoric. First the saturday people, thann the sunday people. Host what does antisemitism spring from . Guest the jews introduced the world to a universal charging. People have been test the jews ever since. And by the way, you know who makes that point the best, a non jew in a small book and i was limited in the number of small books i could put up as my favorite piece in the top ten the jewish mystique. I dont know if he was a believing christian, i had no idea that he was a great sinker and he wrote about this handset ever since they introduced thise invisible judge theyve never been forgiven for and so who makes that point today, george in the israeli test. You could see his video and you could read his book which is th best obviously. Hes not jewish in his book is up there as one of the booksbo that most influenced me. He sees what others dont see. That is a rare gift and he writes on so many subjects but the test is you see how people react and that is pretty much all you need to know. Do they want to emulate success or do they want to destroyorld success . The arab world wants to destroy israel, not to emulate it. Ennisr host how did you get from new york to la and the books etc. . Etc. . Guest it wasnt predictable but i will give you the medium story, not the long length. When i was 21 obviously a lot has been. I was sent to the then soviet union by the Israeli Government and to smuggle in jewish items to those that are not allowed to have them and smuggle out the names of jews that wanted to leave the soviet union. Ive sent in for four weeks. It was a difficult four weeks. I would send him in large measure because i fortuitously knew both hebrew and russian. I studied in college. Why, only god knows. But i did. So i was like the perfect person to send them. Israel had a Perfect Program of doing this. Sed to s after 1967 when relations were cut off and the israelis couldnt visit the soviet union so they sent young jews to do this work. When i came back i started lecturing on the plight of the soviet jews. I lectured about three or four times every week in my senior year of college. I will never forget all i spoke up for two years for soviet jewry and then after two years i called up the jewish group that i had spoken to. I was so nervous that i was drifting and i sat there like 24yearsold i said this is dennis, do you remember me, i spoke on we remember you, you were terrific. You want to speak on soviet jewry again back i said well i d like to speak on something else. Like what . Maybe people would like to hear why so many young jews are alienated from judaism. That would be interesting. How much do you charge because ive done this for free. I will never forget my dear friend for whom i wrote my first book sitting in my living room in my apartment he goes 50, state, say 60. I couldnt say 50. The thought someone would giveve me 50 to talk struck me as impossible so i said 35. She said with or without taxi. I said plus taxi so she said okay. I could have 50 said 50. So, i began a very wonderful speaking career only in jewish life. My life was very professionally and in every other way jewish life. I wanted to broaden it but i didnt know how. I knew i wanted to talk to everybody. This was built in. I would sit there like tell me about your life, sir. My hobbie hobby is a shortwave o writing letters so i thought i wanted to break out that in any waof that andanyway it doesnt t happened was i got the name. He flew to new york to the bro bronx. To see am i going to bring a 25yearold i could bring 50, 60yearolds to lecture at this institute and he was impressed and abruptly i became the director of the institute. People heard me speak at this institute in california, gave my name to abc radio in california to try any out on the air. I passed their test and i became a talk show host and then i got national and thats how it happened. Host where can people hear the show today . Guest all over the country. Most cities have my show but there is the app, theres Dennis Prager utopia. This is in demand, its free. But you can here just by going on the internet. I do try talking about my radio show which is now 33 consecutive years. I do try to talk about everything in life. If theres anything thatli distinguishes my show, thats it. I dont always talk politics because im not alwaysal interested in politics. Every week i have been male and female al gore and think this is the most honest talk about women in the american media, and i think it is. And i explained why i think its so honest. I im not a man or a woman fan. I do not root for either. You cant get along if you dont understand each other. Believe it or not this is politically incorrect i believe that women understand more than men. Its like trying to understand an orangutan. That is how different the nature is and i try to explain it and i give. I get that a lot. You saved my life and that means a lot to me. You have an obligation to act happy. That goes to the core of my belief about life i dont care about your move only how you act. [laughter] that is transformative when people realize that. If you feel bad im sorry but its how you act out how you feel. I will tell you my favorite transformative story from fourth grade one day the rabbi announces and says okay time to do the afternoon prayer. I was respectful. I said im sorry but im not in the mood to do the afternoon prayer so he goes like this in the classic and closes his eyes. Dennis prager is not in the mood. So what. [laughter]hat . She changed my life. And i have changed others lives thanks to him. So youre not in the mood to go to work that day. So what. I did write a column to give an idea how forthright i am. At the end of the year i do not write political or philosophical. I write columns and at the end of the year i wrote a twopart column than a wife is not in the mood. Based on the response to me. Host have you ever been called in tolerant guest interestingly, on that article, on the leftwing site it said the Dennis Prager advocates marital rape which my wife found fascinating. [laughter] this was news to her once put it that way. Fo [laughter] there. I dont its funny how these things dont bother me. They are so absurd its as if i would say you know what you aree the halibut. I dont think that he would lose sleep. Saying i advocate marital rape is like saying im a halibut. So it has no impact on me. On what grounds . If a woman isnt in the mood she should still consider. If you love him and hes a good man etc. And obviously there are times youre mood has to be honored. Nevertheless it shouldnt be tht only determinant whether you have sex with he your husband. Thats what i said then translates their wives having sex with them as i love you. Thats it. That is the most direct way most women can say that her husband. Whether they like it or dont like it is irrelevant. If i give you a birthday giftsl that you like, not that i like, a gift i like, its not a gift. A gift is what you like. So they wrote this idiocy that prager advocates marital rape. A guy wrote i cant believe they wrote i cant stand that conservative but please he never advocated marital rape he just said if youre not in the mood and you love him, consider it anyway. Its not exactly rape. In interestingly ive beenen rarely called these words. S. I figured out a way to save very direct and even troubling things but without being meanspirited. It has been a tremendous asset in my arsenal if you will. I have people i differ with. I only yelled at a caller once in 33 years and i obviously remember who it is. It was the idiot after people ae for the ethical treatment of animals who came up with a program called holocaust on your plate in which he says, and if you could still see if its outh there and they should be run out of business just for this program. M. There was no difference between the barbecuing of a billion chickens in america and the cremating of 6 million jews. The barbecuing a chicken and cremating a jew are morally identical. By the way, thats inevitable if you believe animals are and humans araroundhumans are equals correct. It wouldnt matter if they are cremating armenians or ukrainians its the same thing obviously. Host what is the genesis of your book think a second time. Guest the title was harpercollins the publisher of the book came up with the ideaim that your signature signoff on your tv show. I had a tv show that lasted about six us. It was a great show by the way. But tv and greatness are notw a synonymous. So it was entertaining and important. I didnt do trivia but in any event, my signoff line i would look at the camera and say i hope i made you think a second time. So thats where they got the idea because that is what you would cause people to do. So i didnt know if it was a good title or not so we went with it. t have a be it is 44 essays on 44 subjects and it is a great introduction to what i think about 44 subjects. I know my essay on Capital Punishment has turned people around but to be for Capital Punishment because i answer every single argument and its a few pages. There is of course an essay onon why it is so wrong to think people are basically good so a lot of basic stuff. How do you believe in god after the holocaust. Host to what you just mentioned here is a quote from the book the idea people are basically good as one of the widely held beliefs in contemporary society yet it is both untrue and destructive. I guess most people listening or watching or sitting here today probably think they are basically good people. People. Guest whether they are basically good is your love andd to the point. There are wonderful people on earth i dont think anybody is s mad but human nature isnty goo. Basically good. In order to be good you have to fight your nature. How many times do you tell a child thank you, why dont you just say at once if we are basically good child would understand if anyone does someod nice toomey i must say thank you. But the average parent tells im sure has said say thank you 10,000 times. If we were basically good, once would work. If we were good you wouldnt have to tell them because gratitude would be so natural, say please, say thank you. Has anybody ever said to a kid at a party you are sharing too many cupcakes . [laughter] you have to go to college to believe something that stupid. Im sorry that doesnt include hillsdale, not because we are here but hillsborough wouldntn. Teach such nonsense. Its basic. But the vast majority of colleges m colleges make you stupider. Its not hyperbole. There were two ways to avoid or three ways to avoid getting stupid in college. Think less intelligently as he came in. One is to be drunk for four years which many students do and therefore they do not leave stupider but with an alcohol problem but they dont leave because they didnt hear what the professor said. That is one way its not my recommended way i just want to make that clear to all of you viewing that is not myand alcoh. Recommended. But another way is to be prepared for the indoctrination of the ideas you will get at the university and that is by being prepared intellectually prior to going into there are not a large number but a certain were. The third is to take courses in the natural sciences. Youre not going to get stupid if you take botany, physics and astronomy because by and large they dont touch upon, that capitalism is evil or all cultures are the same because theres truth and falsehood in science or the mathematics. So those are the three things. If you watch right now we have 140 courses. If you watch them and re watch them you will be able to count counter. Host youve got one that says that every High School Principal should say. What should the principles they hopefully you will find the whole thing fascinating. 20 years ago i wrote this. A van on the internet it was fascinating. Colorado High School Principal gives a speech every principal should give. This is what i would hope every principal would say. And by the way in colorado thats the funniest part of all. I dont care if they think im the superintendent in the school iit matters that they read it. That land viral. Whats fascinating to me there are 10,000 comments between. I do read them and this is important. Ttacks on me. I read attacks on me from even the worst most irrational and i i ask myself ask whenever i read these w attacks could i have said it better . I always ask. Maybe i did trigger this response and i didnt have to. There is necessary opposition i dont want to create gratuitous supposition. I read these things very seriously because i have incorporated prioryear critiques of what ive said that this is very thoughtprovoking because along the things in our school race and ethnicity dont matter. We do not care how you got over here. You are an american student in our high school. We will have a Mathematics Club but we will not have clubs based on anything else, not race or gender or class or orientation or gender identity or just a student in the school who wants to learn about life. Dennis prager is our guest. You are watching booktv on cspan two pick the first call comes from james and mafia coming indiana. You have been so patient. Please go on with your question. Caller thank you. I am a chemical engineer still working, 69 years old. I was raised lutheran, very conservative. My values and beliefs coincide with you directly. The question i have is when did this change in morale in the end political situation began occurring over the last 50 or 60 years because it seems like it is accelerating and getting worse. For those of us in the working world, we are really confused and depressed by the way things have changed. Could you please comment . Thankthank you very much. Host james, when do you think it changed and why . Caller it seemed like in the last really significantly in the last 20 or 30 years. Because i work. People that work, we work hard. We are really focused on the kinds of things we have to do to keep our businesses operating. Just go well, it is the great question. I have been asking the same thing. When did this start . Because the truth is, and we really havent talked politics and this is not meant elliptically i swear. Im happy to talk politics, but this transcends politics. We are undoing the american revolution. It is as simple as that. Bernie sanders has called his new group our revolution as i wrote in my forthcoming column. We had our revolution in 1776. If theres going to be another revolution in america, that means it is a counterrevolution and that is what is happening. We are undoing everything the original revolution stood for. The infinite significance of the individual and the limited government centrality of judeochristian ethics in the society. And that was true for all the founders, by the way. But the real beginning of this began in the late 19th century when american universities were not generally giving out doctorate. So, they would go to germany to do their graduate work and chairman professors were socialists generally. They were all in what we would call today the last. So they came back and that is when Higher Education began to change dramatically, when these professors would be taught by largely by german. Remember, there would to revolutions in the late 18th century. The american and the french. We are not the same revolution. This is for equality and ours was not. They wanted equality of outcome. We want equality of opportunity, equality before the law. They wanted equality of outcome. We have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They have the equality what is the third one . Host liberty. Guest liberty, ray. Liberty and equality fight one another. If you have liberty, you will not have a quality. If you have liberty, than a shortstop will make more money than a teacher, even though everybody believes teachers do more good works than shortstops. But with liberty, thats what happens. He makes 25 billion here and she makes 60,000 a year. May be last, and maybe more still a big difference. But if you want to shortstops and teachers to make the same amount of money, you have created a totalitarian state, which is that the french revolution ultimately created and europe did create the communism and. Anyway, so when did it start . Europe died after world war i. We are following the european pattern. Europe preferred National Identity. World war i killed god and National Identity. So no borders, there was nothing to sacrifice and know god and man we wont have the butchery and savagery of world war i. Then you have world war ii. In america, our world war i was the vietnam war. That killed National Identity in the United States. But you will be dead in vietnam, which is worthy of its own obviously discussion, but i thought what we did in vietnam is morally identical to what we did in korea and that is we died to keep the people free from communist tyranny. End of issue. That is why we did not want the Natural Resources of which there are very few. There is essentially nothing. We died in korea to keep half the people away from the monsters that now govern north korea and everybody acknowledges, even the left acknowledges the monsters who govern north korea. So it has been constant. The last hundred years, leftism has been the most dynamic religion in the world. Postcode nathan is an old saybrook, connecticut. Good afternoon. You are on air. Go ahead. Call code radio show. Guest we didnt get a chance to hear the beginning. Host start again, please, thanks. Caller it is a pleasure to call cspan. I have never heard mr. Pragers radio show, that im from the same generation and im in new york jewish liberal. But my question is very much like james is. When mr. Prager and i were children, we did not know the political persuasion of our teachers at all. It was not my grandchildren today know what how their teachers feel politically. But we were not exposed to that. And it was not considered proper or appropriate in a classroom for a teacher to express their own political opinion. I would like to know i understand his answer about the university professor, but hell remember in grade school you did not know the politics of his teachers. But my grandchildren do. Guest that is a really great question. Again, hes a liberal, not a leftist. Hes a good example. That question would not come from a leftist. That would come from a liberal. Thats a very important question and theres an answer. People on the left morally believed that they have a duty to impart their values onto children. Thats it. The notion in fact, the New York Times the Washington Post actually commit Damon Milbank says a leftwing writer for the Washington Post, very wellknown columnist wrote within the last 10 days that he attended or will be attending meetings with teachers of his kids school. I dont know if its high school or elementary school. And he will tell them that it is important for them to make node their president ial preference because we cannot allow for the election of the republican candidate. In other words, he is proud of the fact. They are so certain that they are right. Why would they hide it from children . Catholic schools teach catholicism. Public schools teach leftism. That is their duty. That is their moral duty. Asking a leftwing teacher not to impart leftwing views is like asking a Catholic Priest not to impart catholicism in his catechism class. Although classes are now with some exceptions in colleges, increasingly in high school are catechism classes. The only difference between a christian seminary and a college today is that the christian seminary is honest. We acknowledge we are here to produce committed christians. But universities do not acknowledge we are here to create committed leftists. Host holly, greenville, south carolina, text message. How can the progress being made in Race Relations . Guest there is real progress. It is a lie of gargantuan proportions that the races dont get along in america. It is a lie. In 99 of instances of blackwhite interaction in america, everything is fine. It is a nonissue. Is created at the issue by the left, the black left and the white left because about this issue, how do democrats get black democrats get black votes and must you constantly say that whites are racist and we will save you, we leftist, we democrats. Then they are stuck. See, if things are good, it is bad for the last. Think about it. It for democrats in particular. If women get married, very bad for democrats. If women get married and have children, even worse. That is the biggest single demographic of women who vote republican. So it is best for democrats if women have children out of wedlock. Now come the able not say this. They may not even personally want this to happen. It is simply a fact. If you are a woman who is single and have a child, you are overwhelmingly likely to vote democrat. If youre a black who thinks that you are fortunate to live in america, and that it is a blessing to live in america, that the vast majority of whites are not racist at all, the odds are you will vote republican. The more you loathe america and are angry at it, the more likely you are to vote democrat. This is true for all possible areas of american life. If it is dysfunctional, the democrats will benefit. It is a tragedy. There is no blackwhite problem in the United States other than that manufactured by black leaders, white leaders, leftwing leaders for their own reasons. I live in the same country as everybody else does. I watched like a hawk at airports, at restaurants everywhere, not to mention in my workplace where there are blacks. I watched blackwhite interaction and im pretty sensitive to the human condition. The naturalness is like a nonissue. It is a nonissue, but it is made into an issue and the president of the United States, president barack obama, while precedent in fact did this when he was safer to send, this drives me crazy. Thats a lie. The white Police Officer did not kill an unarmed black kid because he was a racist. He killed him because he was threatened with his life and blacks on a grand jury and blacks in the department of justice exonerated this officer to say ferguson as an ominous but police of racism is to lie about what happened in ferguson. Host next call for Dennis Prager comes from andy in idaho springs, colorado. You are on booktv and we are listening. Hi, dare. Mr. Prager made a statement early like when i first tuned in to the program about socialism spending the money that capitalism may. Now besides the fact that is a generality and sort of implies a dichotomy, i would ask him, is there anything wrong with socialisms banning the capitalism makes . Is not actually how the Economic Life actually works . Thank you. Just go thank you for the question. First, let me defend generality. Without generalizations, inhuman is a idiot. The ability to find patterns is what our brain is programmed to do at its best. So if you cant make a generalization, then you cant understand life. How is this . Kids cry on airplanes. There are adults who cry on airplanes. I fly every week and i havent heard an adult screen on an airplane once. Well, you are generalizing because i lived on earth did not university. So, therefore i want to just a fan because gentleman made a point that im so used to this from a radio show. Dennis coming are generalizing. Yeah, so the question is not is it okay to generalize. Is the generalization accurate . That is what matters. The caller acknowledged it is accurate. He asks, is not the economic way of life . Yes, that is the economic way of life. Socialism doesnt produce wealth, only capitalism does. Of course some of it should be spent on the least fortunate of us. No one is against that. But it needs to be understood a dad, and the only question you have to ask if you want to help humanity is what produces wealth, not withstand that. Host we have a question or hear echoes of college. Tell us your name. You go to school here . Caller great to have you here. I am a junior here. My name is joshua from is joshua from the city of south lyon, michigan. My question to you is to do with the roderick intended as even mentioning so far today. Ive had the privilege to be here for the past two years. You may not know it is one of the poorer counties in michigan. It may not seem like they have upward mobility that capitalism provides for an industry that last along with the downturn of the recession here. The question i have is how do we address the issues that people feel that they have in poor situations. They talk about how they feared and they dont have anyway to receive receive insurance in the future. Is this possibly a product of the socialists imposing a government or government policy or is this also roderick . Just go specifically to obamacare or general problem . Guest a lot of people ive talked to really do fear they may not have any options in the future. But if hillary is elected, this made a good education for their sons and daughters. Just go well, the broad picture on obamacare and if you wish to good education as well as it is a good thing . This is the debate of left and right is about. Is it a good name for the government to be the provider of medical care to its population . The left says yes, the right says no. With everything else, if you will, education. Have we benefited by the government taking over education the left says yes, the right says that could rid of the department of education. That seems to have died. America was founded on the belief that the individual has to make as many choices as possible. When government takes over anything, for example, you really dont know the price. We dont know the price of medical care now with insurance companies. If you even see your bill, you get an mri. Does anyone know how much an mri costs . Do you know the only area of medicine, i think the only area that is really thrives where prices have come down a quality has risen his plastic surgery. And you know why . Because everybody has to pay out of their pocket. And so, just like a car, you negotiate and just like food if there is a moral right or even demand for everybody to have health provided for free, why should we get food for free . That is more immediate in terms of sustaining mass because there is nothing free. That is why. It is much better if people take care of their own lives and not regard every visit to a doctor is being paid for even by insurance. We had to duck to both did not do that both an obamacare are ludicrous. But they are hard deductibles. If you get a little dad, i never go to Car Insurance people. I pay for it because i dont want my insurance policies to go out. Doctors are now being reimbursed at rates that will ultimately crash the system. They are so low and more and more. Yours are opting out of medicare and medicaid and they are going into what is called concierge practices. You sign up, give the doctor x amount every month in the doctor will take care of you for as long as you pay a because the system is so unfair to doctors now. But it sounds good, free, but nothing is free. Milton friedman when he got the nobel prize for economics. He said it easy, nothing is free. Host chat, you are about to dance the fancier with author Dennis Prager, go ahead. Caller yes, i treasure a few few times on the phone. I loved what you said at one point on one of your radio broadcasts. They are not born good. They are not written anything. So now we find out if they become good or bad. My dear father used to say ironic way, but theres entirely too much sharing and caring going on, which i always thought was so poignant. I went to school at the university of oregon during the vietnam war days, the kent state days. The first time i ran into the academic problems, you had certainly discussed a class where a sociology class where the professor was stalins socalled dialogue dates, whereas the same year of that country. Of course they think they used march, but he didnt know any better. Stalin was the one i believe who murdered millions of people. Those are my comments. Just two questions. One is, it is kind of trivial color profile ballplayer acts. But theres also a need for people to know history. If the quarterback refuse to stand for the starspangled banner and hes continuing to make a big deal about it. In this day and age but the point has he has the freedom and right to do that. I agree. Host i appreciate it. We are going to leave it right there and take all those comment. We havent discussed the issue of colin kaepernick. Should we care what he does . Guest its important as a symbol. Is it as important as the amount of coverage were given . We are giving it coverage because the issue of whether a black american should stand for the National Anthem is important. So shes a relevant and most people understand not. The question that he raises does need to be addressed. If you are black american, you are an exceedingly lucky person just as if you are a White American. The least racist country in the history of the world. There is no multiethnic, multiracial country in which its citizens get along as well as the United States. You are taught the opposite. You going to college in viewers taught this stuff about white privilege. Whites must be inferior because so many white are doing well. So if you have all that privilege and youre not doing well, you must be a real loser. The only privilege that really exists in the United States is american privilege. There are two privileges, excuse me. There is american privilege and areas of their privilege. If you grow up with your father, you are privilege. That is infinitely more important than your race, that you grow up with a father. Host libby post on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com booktv. And spiritual, but not religious. What is your take on that phrase . Guest i feel bad because it is fast you are really means for doing not. [laughter] ive got to tell you the truth. Its a meaningless statement. You see, i am lucky. What i do for a living is 15 hours a week for 30 years i talk to people who challenge every word i say. So i get to really think things through, hopefully clearly. I have dealt for hours actually. One of the hours on my radio show i had dealt with this very question. What does it mean to be spiritual and i never get an answer. If you are not religious in your spiritual, what does that mean . I am not read sarcastic or in any way demeaning. I assume you are not religious beings, that you dont believe in god or goddess we have understood god come in the transcendent creator of nature, who was revealed himself and i have no problem saying he even though god is their gender. I use he because if i use sheet, we would encompass email, just as when we say i got a mosquito, he was flying all over here. Nobody thinks he was the fellow. If you got that mosquito, she was flying all over here. You have been think gender. Some mail can be neutered. It is my only point. But this is it doesnt make sense to me. I dont have a religion, but in spirit shall more or less means i meditate on myself and i feel very wonderful when the birds archer being. Im not being sarcastic. I promise. That is what a picture at the spiritual guess what, and deeply religious and im not very spiritual. Hows that . I dont even know what it means. Beyond religious, meaning i followed the dictates and wisdom of my religion, in my case, judy is sent, but i will happily use judeochristian guidelines because they do exist. That is how i live. That is not spiritual. That is moral. My religion is morality base, not spirituality based. This is Benjamin Franklin who did not have belief in a trinity, but at a deep only from the god of the bible and the god who in his words judges us after we die. That is my god. If god doesnt judge us, then i might as well be an atheist. That means god gives the exact same faith to the good and evil. God is irrelevant to me. I am morally preoccupied, not spiritually. Host looks like we have another hillsdale student here. Guest i grew up abroad grew up abroad, so i spent the last 13 years living in vienna, ostrow. And i frazzled some people here. I will say im a conservative, but living in vienna, the socialist country in very socialist city. While i was there, we had a bike very cheap public transportation. I can always feel safe Walking Around the city at night. A pretty high quality of life in terms of quality of life on scales and rankings like that. Then your discussions to often times we discuss socialism might have terrible evil thing and they become really corrupt. My question for you is is it possible that maybe not in the United States, but first our countries are certain situations but socialism might not be all that bad to be functional . Well, there are parts of things that are bad. The question is what do you prefer . In austria they would acknowledge whatever wealth they had has come from capitalism. They wouldnt argue socialism has made them capable of getting a cheap transportation. The money has to come from somewhere. Every homogeneous society in the western world happens to be safe. North dakota is one of the safest places in the world. It is a homogeneous society. Oz area does not have many races and many ethnicities and religions, so its no great achievement. Its pretty effortless to just as they say north dakota has the same rights as australia in terms of crime. North dakota is not a socialist century. The question is where does the love come from to give you Free Transportation . The other thing is ive been to all the European Countries except for slovakia and what is the other one. Looking at my wife. She knows best. Anyway, ive lived in europe, so i understand what youre saying. You know what i feel when i go to europe . It is sold to you one thing you probably dont know. Americans give more charity per capita income than europeans do and they volunteer far more. And you know why . It is europeans are raised with a socialist idea. The government will take care of your neighbor, you dont have to. Postcode lets take another call. This time we are going to hear from im going to pull this up in just a minute. Im trying to do this on my cell phone. Bill if they would come new jersey. You are on with Dennis Prager. Caller thank you for having mr. Prager on. Its truly an honor to speak with a man whose cancer the intellectual development of our country. And please view Dennis Prager to support that statement. My question is will you kindly convey what the future of america would be a very Clinton Administration versus lad under his Shrub Administration . Thank you so much for all that you do for all of us in this country, mr. Prager. Guest thats very kind to be a kid whenever theres a complement, theres always the voice thinking theres a but followed. Host i could go to facebook and read some of those. Guest thats right. Its not paranoia on my fault. I realize it often does. So, it wasnt my first choice to get into this, but you asked about it and its inevitable. Given all of what i have said about leftism in america and the western world, i believe it will overwhelm and crash western civilization as we have known it. I fear any democrat versus essentially any republican. That is really my bottom line. Democratic party is no longer a liberal party, now of leftwing party. Barack obama said it well. He said it five days before he was select it in 2008. In five days away from being fundamentally transforming the United States of america. That is honest. He and the left wish to fundamentally transfer and the United States of america. I dont. And Bernie Sanders as i said earlier started this movement called our revolution. We had our revolution in my opinion in 1776. We dont need another one. So i not only pessimistic with regard to a Democratic Party that kerry and its not fun to tell people who listen to your radio show that you are pessimistic because you dont want to be a downer. However, i am a happy pessimists. So i wrote a book on happiness i have so many wonderful things in my life. I still wake up every day knowing how lucky i am to be an american, but i am pessimistic. I dont know any country that has gone back when its gone live. Like they do in venezuela, they will have in brazil and then they have a little brief. All countries go through this like they did with Margaret Asher in britain. So they have a brief period of time to undo the damage at the left. The right and is damage of the left and people then reelect the left again because everybody wants free things. It makes perfect sense. This is what would give you. That is not the way america was founded. Im a mutt, john f. Kennedy here is proof. If you gave john f. Kennedy and a nod girl dress, i would read on this. And im not a betting man. I only bet when im pretty certain i will admit to. I would bet a serious amount of money but if you gave a thousand college seniors, john f. Kennedy is a nonzero address that it was given by a president. We are not going to say who buy a republican or a democrat at the great majority of those thousand students from all over america by a republican. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country would immediately be assumed to be right wing. The leftwing says ask what your country can do for you. Thats the whole point. I want more free things. Were i live you get free breakfast and free lunch at school. They were quite ballistic at me for saying this. If you cannot supply the breakfast for your child, then i think Family Services should visit your house. You are truly enough parent. Breakfast is extremely cheap. And i would like to know every home that is getting a kitty free breakfast at school if they have no tv because theyve spent their money already on breakfast. I mean, it is a very bad thing. And by the way, one of the first things that leftwing regimes do is take away parental authority. This takes away parental authority. You will have no say in whether your child has an abortion. You will have no say in your child thinks that he is a girl. Hes eight years old, thinks hes a girl. You have no say in the matter, nor by a blog now can a therapist work on the child to stay within the identity of the and chromosomes that the child was given. You cannot do that. Even though 90 of children who identify with the other gender eventually identify with the gender into which they were born. 90 . So we are experimenting with children. This by the way is a good deal. Do you know that the parents the teachers in charlotte, North Carolina two weeks ago were given a directive that they may not or should not bid i dont know if they will be punched, but they showed not address their own entries to an end as boys and girls lest they impose gender identity. You cannot call kids in her class is a charlotte boys and girls. Elvis huxley and orwell never couldve imagined what the left has come up with. So you only call them students and scholars. This is the leftwing idiocy that youre a scholar in third grade. It is just a cheap mean of the vocabulary because it is after all selfesteem. My kid when he was nine and youve got a trophy for losing. He came in last place and he got a trophy. I said david, what is the trophy for . A total serious look he said that, for playing. Why dont you get a trophy of her breathing, for existing, heres an existence trophy. Host lets hear from this young scholar. Guest by this stage its possible. Host my name is Jacqueline Eubanks and im not freshman here. No one has to believe socialism and that europe is utopia. I think Eastern Europe and what it is now. I abut the United States. I believe what the founders created about my grandfather who was a world war ii vet fought for. I would like to ask you, is there any way we can combat this socialism is a utopia that the left is providing people in my generation because you and i both know they are systematically disestablish in the america that we love. Guest thank you. Such a nice thing to hear from a millennial. That is exact to what is happening. They are undoing what the founders meant to do. There is one simple aside from all the other arguments i did. Socialism bankrupt countries. This country will be bankrupt and the bill will follow a new and frankly i have no pity for you because your generation vote democrat. So therefore, since i am a big believer in consequences, that is what children should learn. I has your pity for millennial to vote democrat for the tab four the debt they believe that voting democrat comes to their generation. I will perhaps be gone or i will have my fine retirement account, so it has no effect on me. But it will go bankrupt, just like reeds, just like portugal, just like italy, just like spain, just like venezuela, and we will too. We will be a borderless country because the left once borderless countries, just like with the european union, they dont believe in borders because they dont believe in National Identity. A country called the United States between canada and mexico will not the any different from canada and mexico. This will all happen to you. You agree to buy the once great country that existed, but that you helped dismantle a because you, thanks to the indoctrination youve got in high school and college voted for. That is my message to millennial. A nonpity message. Host this is book tv on cspan three. Whereby the toast at college in michigan with author and radio talkshow host Dennis Prager. We have an hour and 15 minutes left in our program today. If youd like to participate coming years the many ways you can participate. 2027488200 for those of you in eastern and central time zones you can call in at that number. If you live in the mountain pacific time zone, call lynn at 2027488201. Now, there is the way you can text as well. Here is the number for text messages. 202 6386251. Please include your first name and city so we can identify you that way. That number is only for texting, not for phone calls. 202 8386251. Facebook. Com booktv you can leave a comment there and join the conversation that is going on there as well. Finally, you can email booktv cspan. Org. The nine questions people ask about judaism is book number one that came out in 1986. Think a second time which we talked about came out in 1996. Happiness is a serious problem 1998. Why choose the reason for antisemitism 2003. Still the best hope ,com,com,comma New York Times bestseller came out in 2012 and his most recent book, the 10 commandments come is still the best moral code. If you were to recommend one book for viewers, what would it be . Guest to know, i was thinking honestly what is peter going to ask me. Theres only one question i hope he does and ask me and you just asked me. [laughter] i feel toward my books away a parent of six kids feels for their kids. Presumably youd love them all, but all in a somewhat different way, but you love them all and. So i dont have an answer to you. I only wrote six books. You know its happiness. I may think of an example. It was contracted by random house. They gave me my advance, which i immediately spend and then after five years i did not have the book and i had to come up with the money and give them back their advance. Why didnt i have the book . I dont publish until i think its terrific. That is why they are all in print because they are meant to be read. I never think of the reader now. I think somebody 50 years from now find this an orton . That is the way i look at all of these boat. You could throw a dart and pick out any one you bought. The happiness book itself recommending because every healthy person wants to be happy. The title of the book is a very important thing to the head happiness is a serious problem. Harpercollins said two men are very sweet way, dennis, its a pretty down title for a book on happiness. It is a downer. So ill never forget i said to the editor, i just want to know one thing. Is it true or not . Is happiness a serious problem . He said yeah, it is. So lets keep the title. He said okay, lets come up with a subtitle. I said fine. So there is a subtitle. A human nature repair manual which is no happier than the title. That is what is so funny about it. Thats great. Thats great . Congratulate you. However, all things being considered, the book that i worked the hardest and that is most necessary at this moment is probably still the case for American Values versus leftist values and islamist values. It is three books in one. I was thinking of making three books, but i didnt. Islam is on and americanism, still the best hope on american value. I dont care what you read, but if you were to read one, that is the one i would want you to read because of how much is in there in the lifetime of thought. That was the hardest thing i ever did was to write that book. Host john is calling in garden city, michigan. Please go ahead. Caller mr. Prager, its indeed a delight to listen to you as one whose a daily listener. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to your father and i want to ask you a question pertaining to your children. What was it like having such a goofy child who refuse to do homework, who had to learn an instrument so he picked the accordion because it was the first in the phone book. Were your children more normal or traditional or like their father . Thank you very much. Guest thats a very funny question. I remember that my father passed away. He died in 96. I miss him, but i cant complain. But i would have my father on every july 18th on his birthday. By the way, it was precious because she was speaking to me like we were at the supper table. There was no cognizance of a couple Million People listening. He would yell at me. I dont mean yell. He never yelled. Every year i just didnt know what part of the interview thats what happened. He would go you know, dennis, you asked me that question is no. Criticizing me asking me the same question. He had a photographic memory. I remember every question i asked my father over the course of 10 years. He was very funny. I remember his answer to that. Dennis was a goofy. But the caller was right. Within children i was not your norm. Let me put it to you this way. We have a funny tradition in the house at least with regard to one of my sons. I am dp one, Dennis Prager. David prager, where there is this element that at least in part of the family does seem to have transcended generations. That is true. Host lets hear from another dennis. This one in west palm beach, florida. Go ahead. Caller good afternoon, gentlemen. One of your answers of which i completely agree, you mentioned Catholic Schools unless the schools. What to Catholic Schools. When you said that, you reminded me of a quote as Milton Friedman which im sure you have in one of your 5000 books called free to choose. What is wrong with Public Schools. The point is he says Public Schools teach religion, to only monotheistic religion, but they teach values and beliefs and so one. Im sure you know what im talking about. My point is assuming there is leftism taught in a religion and as dr. Milton friedman said a form of religion, it seems to me that would violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment and secondly, for the government to force everybody who cant afford to optout, that would violate the free exercise clause. You are the only person listening to the show that most of them about to talk about now. In pure speech in 1925, the u. S. Supreme court said that the government basically cap to go to a school that the children are not creatures of the state and so one. John stuart mill in his boat host dennis, if you could bring this to a conclusion. Guest ive got his point. Its a very important discussion obviously. Look, i get my values from the gene. I dont get my spirituality, i give my values. One of them is parents should teach their children. The teachers are substitute parents. The hebrew term for parent and teacher is identical. The consonant at the beginning is different, but its the same two teacher to parent. There is actually a debate, believe it or not, but in the talmud, theres a debate on everything. Its the site of the encyclopedia britannica. Would you say first . Your parents or your teacher . That is how much the teacher, whoever teaches you how to be good as the primary person of your life. It is very powerful. So ideally the parents should teach their children. No parent can teach their children everything obviously. So we have substitute parents and teachers. The state has taken over the role completely. I dont trust the state. It is amazing to me its not amazing. I retract that comment. It is inevitable that the following foolishness is so widely believed. Come on, dennis. People have killed more in the name of god than anything else. I guess the person does not know about the 20th century. The First Century we didnt have god and in fact had secular ideologies. But they never think that way. There is just this way of thinking about religion. Why did i make that point . Because the state has done more evil than anything else in the history of the world. I am scared of strong days. The left loves strong state. Okay, theres a clarity you cannot deny. You may disagree with me, but that is the case. Every genocide was by a big state. It is not in the last hundred years and theyve been the genocidal century. The only way is the hutus slaughtering. There is no state essentially doing that. It was affect tribal slaughter. Everything else was done by big states. Stalin state, north korean state, cambodian state, had their state. You dont have a strong state. You cant do all that much damage. Im not for anarchy. Of course you need to stay. The idea that big state and that the state should teach my children, take it out of my hands, there was a time when that was okay when state schools called Public Schools saw as their reason for being the americanization of all kids. Now it is the antithesis of the americanization of kids. Now it is the cessation of all kids. Where are your parents from the shimmer there is a school in l. A. On flag day. Had the kids bringing your parents countries. Flag day was supposed to be a day to celebrate the american flag. On that date is celebrated 26 different flag. That was the flag day. To the extent that it exists. Like it is natural, the state should raise my child. Im sorry, i dissent. Host another student from hillsdale. Guest my name is allan cutler and i was raised culturally jewish and my parents are immigrants from the former soviet union. Host guest do speak russian . I do speak russian. Im not sure if you are aware, the Mission Statement of the College First of all, let me mention i was attracted to the school because i appreciate the sincerity, the honor code, the way people treat each other on campus is nice to see and the ethics of the college which they both share. I have a question about specifically the change. The wording of the mission of the college was that it was kind of a more ambiguous judeochristian tradition and i was exposed to a traditional school. I want to hear your take is a jewish person coming to Hillsdale College with significance of this for you . Costco with significance is it for you . Guest i see many similarities in terms of the pics of judaism and christianity. For me, it honors the American Freedom of religion. In a twist of irony, that is the year we were able to get it restarted. Curious on your tape. I dont know what the facts are. As a religious jewish, i would sooner send my child to read Christian School than a public school. I dont believe in christ, but i believe in all the values that they are going to do reach the child at a Christian School and that is great. I believe none of the values that they teach in our secular schools. They are going to teach the kid in fact the opposite. I was amazed. The New York Times actually have this piece sometime in the last year by a professor of philosophy who has shot. He realized speaking at high schools and that virtually no American High School student believes they are a moral truth. They do not believe it is morally true that you dont slaughter children. They think it is an opinion. They have their opinion on slaughtering children, that there is no moral truth. Guest the only verse, only thing printed on the liberty bell other than the name of the manufacturer of the bell is a verse from the torah. These are christians i tell jewish audiences, if all jews took the torah seriously, the messiah would come. Its just a praise in judaism for when, you know, all problems are solved. But that, so thats, thats my answer to you. Host Dennis Prager, what do you think about Hillsdale College having a jewish club . Guest it makes perfect sense. You know, i wish it had more i jewish students, and i think its great. They should have a sabbath dipper just as i did back in l. A dinner as i did back in l. A. , and i think thats great. And i wish i would speak at one of your dinners. It makes sense. The jews, American Jews as i tell American Jewish audiences, and i write for the Jewish Journal which is a big jewish newspaper, and its online, and most of its readers are because most of them are jewish are on the left. That which jews have most revered turns out to be their biggest enemy x be that which jews have most feared turns out to be their biggest friend. Jews have most revered learning, the university. And it turns out the university is the most antiwestern you know what the debate was . Hamas or israel. And the students voted israel. Hamas, a Terror Organization to that announces it wishes to annihilate israel, and they voted that israel is the bigger obstacle to peace than hamas. Oxford be University Forum are. And that which jews have most feared, christians, turn out to be their best friends. So if jews dont enter cognitive dissonance, nobody would. Host do you have a problem if hillsdale had an africanamerican Students Association . Guest oh, thats yes, i do, because i believe in religious association, not racial god creates us all in his image, but if you want to study god via jewish text or christian text or, for that matter, muslim text or buddhist text i know theyre not godcentered that is a different thing. If it were on religious grounds like having shah bat dinner, obviously, a religious act, how could i oppose it . But, no, i think its a very bad thing, and the racial identity there isnt a day in my life i wake up thinking im white. Its and by the way, i dont believe that most blacks wake up, look in the mirror and go what a good looking black. They think, hey, thats jerry in the mirror. Thats dee an in the mirror. This is new that you are defined by the mirror. Why is barack obama black . Hes decided to call himself black, but why . He was raised by whites, and one of his parents is white. Why does he say hes black . Why doesnt he say hes multiracial . Because theres no multiracial identity, and you dont get any points. Its actually better to be black than white in the United States. The proof is anybody who has a choice says hes a black. If it were so terrible, they would say theyre white. But outside of university studies, outside of leftist propaganda, it is advantageous in america in most instances to be black rather than white. The proof being, once again, if people can make the choice having both parents, they seem to all opt to call themselves black. So there must be some huge advantage to saying you are black. Host rick is in el centro, california, and, rick, youre on booktv with Dennis Prager. Caller hi, mr. Prager. Ive never heard of you, unfortunately, but i just happened to be guest where do you live . Im just curious, where do you live . Caller california, southern california, el centro guest i have to admit, ive been on radio in l. A. For 3be 3 years. [laughter] host go ahead, rick. Caller i work too much. I just wanted to ask you a couple things. I heard someone ask is you when you felt our country began to degrade, our moral and other ethics. And i just wanted to know do you, do you relate that at all with women going to work and leaving our children at home . I know thats a sensitive topic, but ive always kind of outside analyzed it, and i just wondered what your thoughts were on that, if you think thats affected todays youth in a negative way in any form. Host do you think so, rick . Caller i think i do. I think our children, i think our children need a base, a strong base to grow on, and i think without having someone at home to check on things, to keep an eye on them, i think, you know, theyre able to get into things easily that they maybe shouldnt get into. Theyre not as able to analyze and make decisions at a young age. Theyre easily persuaded to do things maybe that they might not. I think it has. Host all right. Lets hear from Dennis Prager on that question. Guest all right. Well, i discussed a lott about what i think the origins are. Certainly, the secularization of the country is, to me, that was huge. I think to a certain extent, at least judiciously, you can go back to the 60s and the Supreme Court decision against prayer in school. New york state had a prayer, and i vaguely recall it, but its the vagueness is still accurate, and that is may god bless my teachers, my parents and my school. I think that was i mean, thats how bad it was. Isnt that terrible . And the Supreme Court found that that was, that was unconstitutional for children to say bless my teachers. By way, i do believe this very strongly, that when children were forbidden from blessing their teachers, within one generation a lot of people were cursing their teachers. I do believe there is a direct line between those two. The dereligionization, radical secularization, the removal of god from the lives of a generation of americans for the first time in American History has had horrific consequences. The left is jubilant over it, and thats why i fear the left. I admit it, its one of the many reasons i think theyre so damaging. Be as regards women in the workplace, this is something that i have talked about often in the following way. As my wife can attest to, who is here, and whether and whether shes with me or not with me, when i meet a young woman, and i mean like from 1825, on the airplane, if shes a waitress, almost any in the elevator, i talk to strangers all the time in elevators. I have fun with strangers. I should write a book, fun with strangers. [laughter] i really should. I get a big kick out of strangers. I am the opposite of stranger danger. I think. [laughter] in fact be, in fact, i find loving strangers easy, its loving family that is a challenge for most people. So anyway, i would ask a girl 1825, ive got a question, theres no right answer, im just curious, and id like to know if you could be guaranteed a great career or guaranteed a great marriage, which guarantee now, remember, if youve got the guarantee, it doesnt mean the other one cannot happen, its just one is guaranteed, all right . So, again, you could be guaranteed a great career or guaranteed a great marriage, which guarantee would you want . And it is fascinating to have their reactions. In one restaurant in l. A. , i asked that of the waitress. A half hour later she came over to all my friends, and one waitress looked at me which was not our waitress, another one said are you the one who asked sally or whatever her name was, are you the one who asked her about a great career . I said, yes. Every single waiter and waitress here about that is talking about it. Its so interesting. And it is. You see, people need to make conscious decisions about their lives. They dont. They follow the herd. Thats the human thing. By the way, you see it in cars. There were two left lane, two left turn lanes. Thats not easy, two left turn lanes. And youll see ten cars in one, two in the other, and the eleventh car comes into the ten car lane. Why . Because theyre all there. Humans are a herd animal. So what they do, they dont think this through, but every young woman should think that through, because the best time for her to to get a husband is when shes young. Its the easiest time, and the choices are the best. Thats reality. A princeton graduate woman wrote that in a New York Times piece, and she was vilified by the feminist movement because the left hates truths. Leftism a is is a rejection of uncomfortable truths. That is the essence of leftism. Thats why they have triggers, thats why they have safe rooms. They hate uncomfortable truth. This is an uncomfortable truth. In life, life is filled with choices. Dear young woman, you choose which im not saying dont get a career. Im telling you where you should place your priority. Host were here at hills day college, had a group of hills deal college, had dinner with a group of students last night, and one of them is here today. Hi. Hi, im a sophomore here at Hillsdale College. Earlier in the program you were asked a question about hillary and trump and what kind of world you see after either one of them is elected, and you didnt talk about trump. Me personally, as a religious person, a christian myself, i have a hard time looking at trump and his morally ambiguous behavior in the past and finding support more them. How do you feel for him. How do you feel . Guest okay, so here goes. First of all, you are not electing pastor, you are electing president , okay . The broader issue for me is four more years of leftwing governments of the United States going to be a Tipping Point or not . If we could survive it, then it doesnt matter, then vote as you wish. I dont think we can. Will the United States of america be here in 100 years as a country between canada and mexico . I suspect so. Will it business be as it was founded to be . I am not optimistic. I dont know how to fake what i believe. I simply dont know. Im not i dont have that capacity. You dont know how bad what the left has done to america is. I really believe that. If you did, Donald Trumps morally ambiguous past to you would be trivial in comparison to the fate of the United States of america. Thank you. Host follow up on that, dylan . Nope . [laughter] all right. Ooh. So if were looking at our future in a basis of moral absolutes and truths, right, would you say its less evil as in its a fight we cant afford to lose by voting in hillary, or do you think voting him is a lesser evil first of all, lesser evil is a very big moral deal, so ill address this issue. First of all, i might have slightly moved from lesser evil to potentially positive. But i was against him the entire primaries. I wrote a National Review and elsewhere column after column broadcast i lost listeners because i broadcast so strongly against him. But i said from the beginning if hes nominated, i will vote for him because i see the big picture. The Supreme Court for the next 30 years will become a leftwing court. North carolina passes a law that you need voter id, the Supreme Court undoes it. Every democracy that i know of in western europe demands an id when you vote. Are they all racist . How could that possibly be racist . Be i were black and every black if i were black and every black i know is insulted because the left has such contempt for blacks. It does. Theres no doubt in my mind they have contempt for blacks, thats why they always want a lower standard for blacks. If that is not contempt, i dont know what is. Everybody can get a photo id except be blacks. Blacks are so incompetent, they cant get a photo id. As i said, every black i know looks at this and goes what the hell are they saying . Its hard to get an id . But its only hard for blacks . Its just, its astonishing. This is called racist. So the states will have no more power to make laws. The Supreme Court, as seen through the eyes of leftwing judges, will make all the law for 30 years because theyll appoint a 40, 45yearold, and they could stay til 90 which is then 45 years. But ill go down to 30 years. But it is enough to do because its enough to do all they want. They dont need congress. Leftwing judges dont believe be that Congress Makes laws, they believe they make laws. Do you believe that we can be certain that trump will promote a rightwing judge . Guest in life there are very few certitudes other than death and taxes, this is a basic law. [laughter] i did not make that up, that was given to me. Number two, i would bet that he did not lie when he gave the list of the judges that he would, that he would promote. But at worst, here is what i tell my listeners. Imagine that there are two doors and you have to enter one of those doors. One, over one of those doors says maneating lion. Over the door it says perhaps a maneating lion. [laughter] which door would you enter . [laughter] host and recently, mr. Prager, in town hall you wrote that there are many reasons why donald trump is the presumptive or guest thats true. The majority of republicans are not conservative. If conservative means when you asked me originally aside from the thats the genuine versal definition. The other one is to conserve the american trinity, e pluribus i iew numb, in god we trust, and liberty. Many conservatives are in the liberty camp, and e pluribus unum, you know, from anyone is nice and its good, but certainly the notion that the country was built on belief in god, the god of the bible specifically and that without that we really dont have an america with all the goodwill and good conservativism that we would like, it wont survive the death of god. I do believe not because god will punish us. Im repeating myself, but i have no choice because i understand that people can extract one sentence, and then its not fair to the point i wished to make. But i believe that most republicans look, is john mccain a conservative . I dont think so. Was bob dole a conservative . Im talking about the president ial nominees. I dont think so. Was mitt romney . I dont know. I cant say. I know, i know man who ran his campaign boasted, and i dont say this in a negative way, so maybe be boasted sounds pejorative. Proclaimed, i have no ideology. Be he said it, the head of the Romney Campaign had no political ideology. How is that possible . Host lets hear from john in grants pads, oregon. Pass, oregon. Please go ahead with your question or comment for Dennis Prager. Caller hi, dennis. Guest hi. Caller i wanted to tell you how i met you. And i wanted to thank you for the tv show that you had very briefly. But the way that i met you was in 1994, and i had just well, my wife had just died that month, and i was rather distraught. So i was up late one night, and i turned on the tv, 1 00 in the morning, and there was this show, Dennis Prager. And he was talking with a group of other people around, and this was some kind of a seminar, group discussion, whatever. And it was all people, as i recall, it was all people who had lost a spouse. Guest thats why i had a short tv show. [laughter] that really, that really summarizes the problem in a nutshell. Lets watch the Dennis Prager show and talk to people who just lost their spouse. Host well, john in grants pass, oregon, i hope it was helpful to you. Caller it was very comforting and gave me some grounding, some understanding other people had it as well, and i just wanted to thank you for having done that for me, and thats how i was introduced to you. Host thats john in grants pass, oregon. Guest well, thats very touching, thank you. I hope he went on to marry again, because i agree with god, its not good for man to be alone. God has often some very fine ideas, and thats one of them. But i that touches me that he would have tuned in at one a. M. , and i helped his life. Thats what i want to do. Host this is scott, columbus, ohio, text message. Im 51, im a white male. I live on two different i have lived on two different continents during my life, and heres my question how does item misdescribe the feeling a white male has regarding the very public narrative that we as White American males are terrible people and have brought nothing but angst to Todays Society . I ask because i dont believe that at all but feel that given the current political climate, i have no way to express my views without being characterized as racist. Guest well, just know that this is the, this is how effective they are, because thats what i said the six there are no irrational responses to our rational arguments, there are just invectives. The New York Times columnists embody that. Nicholas christophe, im sure hes a sweet guy, columnist, New York Times. His entire column just the last column he wrote before our show today was on how the ku klux klan and White Supremacists support donald trump. See . I mean, but i remember leonard bernstein, the most famous Classical Musician in america for the second half of the 20th century largely, got on new York Philharmonic conductor, and, you know, creator of many great musicals like west side story, and he got on tv before Ronald Reagan was, Ronald Reagan was nominated, he said if Ronald Reagan is elected, the ku klux klan will come into the white house. This is what they do. By the way, just an interesting sidebar on this. I thought of a parallel, the mockery of trumps notion of a wall. Which, by the way, is ironic given that his opponent, secretary clinton, has a wall surrounding her house. And i, i dont know why there is difference. Is her house more precious than america . Why do you have a wall . Its to protect you from unwanted outsiders. Why would america not merit what you have for your own home . But a aside from that, i just realized all the mockery of the wall, the mockery, the mockery, i remember during the reagan era the left had the same intense, acrosscountry mockery of star wars. They called it star wars, the strategic defense initiative, where we would shoot down missiles. They mocked it. Everything said about the wall was said about that. Its destabilizing, its bad for the world. America shouldnt do that sort of thing. And anyway, we cant do it. Its nonsense. Meanwhile, iron dome saved israels life because of all the rockets that came in, and israel had an antiballistic Missile Shield called the iron dome, jointly created between the United States and israel. Nobodys laughing today about the idea of shooting down missiles. As regards the notion that youre white and male, i have addressed this today speaking to you, peter, but it see, heres the irony. If you speak about white males in a bad way, thats noble. But if you say, well, you know, also white males are the only group to ever actually or the first group in the world to a abolish slavery. What how do you, how does the left answer that . Oh, youre racist. If you Say Something positive about whites, youre racist. Something negative, then youre progressive. But if you really want to go that route, well, then let me just say the finest music in the world, history, was created by white males. Slavery was abolished by white males. Okay . Now, hitler was also a white male, so its obviously a mixed record. [laughter] but since there were hitlers and stalins, in other words, there were butchers of humanity of every race. What distinguishes the west is not its bushily, but butchery, but its goodness. Everybody was butchers, but only one civilization abolished slavery, gave women rights, etc. , etc. Western. Which happens to coinside with white europeans coincide with white europeans. But to even mumble that outside of hillsdale, at any other college, would crate a controversy. Host if you have not been to Hillsdale College and you get here, theres large statues of Ronald Reagan, margaret thatcher, Winston Churchill spread guest and she wasnt a white male, margaret thatcher. [laughter] just for the record. Host and theyre spread all over the campus. Its a beautiful campus, and we appreciate them hosting us today. Is it significant that were seeing only white faces here in the audience . Guest its significant, its significant in the sense that it is a tragedy that the greatest values in the country have not permeated all the groups that have come into the country. Thats the way its tragic. And i agree with that. We are, with Prager University, for example be, we are doing an outreach to hispanics in spanish and in english about the whole question of what is their value system. See, hispanic latinos come to this country from, obviously, latin america. Every latin american country, every one, has believed in Big Government. Anyway, by the way, its true about every country on earth including western europe. The United States is the only place to have enshrined the notion of limited government. And that is why, among other reasons but its among the biggest, that america has thrived like no other country on earth. And the left wants us to be like the rest of the world. So latinos coming into america bring Big Government values with them. Its not a racial issue. Its true for western europeans who come into america. They bring Big Government ideas too. Wherever you come from, you bring the ideas of your civilization. They dont, they dont come here now, a lot of western europeans come to america because theyre attracted by small government. So its about a 50 50, i would say. But with latinos, they dont come here because theyre attracted to small government. They dont even know the small government ideal exists here, and i dont expect them to. In rural mexico, youre not taught about rural government in america. I completely get that. But we have to understand what a very large number of people whom we dont assimilate, what values they bring. Of course the democrats want ten million illegals rendered citizens, because thats telephoning million democratic votes. Makes perfect sense. The Democratic Party and what they believed in mexico, guatemala, in el salvador, chile and argentina are the same. The pope believes in Big Government. The pope believes in these values. Hes argentinean. Its a very heres the ultimate, ultimate [laughter] we had a woman oh, no. I had a caller, a caller who listened, who watched Prager University videos, and he was deeply he was from caracas in venezuela. And he said, dennis, you dont know how bad it is. Here they realize how terrible moduro is because you have to stand in line for toilet paper or bread. Its terrible what has happened to one of the richest countries in latin America Thanks to socialism. He said, but the problem is to opponent is also socialist, so they think the problem is moduro. They dont think the problem is socialism. That was a brilliant call. Host lets hear from another student here. Hi. My name is samuel, im from cincinnati, ohio, and i am also a student here at Hillsdale College. No doubt this question is answered in one of your book, so forgive my ignorance. In the jewish faith, how were the great men of the faith before the giving of the law justified before god . Guest well, the again, justified before god is christian lip go, and lingo, and i totally respect it, but it is not language that any jew would use. I dont even think we have the word justified. I know youre referring to abraham, that he was, through his faith he was justified through god. And the jewish answer is pretty basic, and youre totally free, and i welcome your response. The you faith, and i have to say this is my favorite and i have a lot of questions about my religion. But this is my favorite. And that is we, its one of the only things all jews agree to, because theres almost nothing all jews agree to other than water is h2o. And that would be that god judges everyone by their behavior. That is why you dont have to be jewish to be saved in judaism. Thats why i can easily as a jew celebrate when christians live their christianity. Because if you live by gods rules whether you have my theology or not is of no interest to me. But if youre living the Ten Commandments and preaching, essentially, the torah to the world, you are my ally in gods work. Thats how i view christians. So, again, its behavior. Noah wasnt a jew, obviously. Noah is saved because hes a good man, because in his generation ares he was a good man. Generations he was a good man. God cares about goodness. That is the essential message of what we call ethical monotheism, and that is what i most take from my religion. Is there a certain point at which wed be good enough, or is that not specified . Guest since it is not possible to be perfect, it is impossible that god would demand what he made impossible. Remember, i said earlier god has common sense. I said in this bothers a lot of religious people. [laughter] it is a common sense notion that god does not expect us to be perfect because we cant be. Its like god does not expect me to run as fast as my car drives. Its not possible. Therefore, god judges us on what we were capable of doing, and thats and we get what we deserve. And i believe that. I am often asked by christians, are you certain youll go to heaven . Im not certain. That is correct. I, be i had to bet on if i had to bet on it, thinking god combines justice and mercy and knowing that my life filled with errors as it has has generally had more goodness than badness, i, i think im a good candidate. I think peter is a better candidate. [laughter] but thats a separate issue. So he will speak well for me [laughter] and thats, you know, i have clout. But in all sipper isty, that is not our belief. Our sincerity. That is not our belief. God measures everyone by what they are capable of doing and metes out justice freely. Because remember, both of us have you see, heres the thing, and i, this is my actual, this is my favorite id rather talk about religion. Heres my order of priorities; religion, Classical Music, then everything else. [laughter] that is my favorite two subjects [inaudible] guest my favorite composer . I loved who set this guy up . [laughter] host the students think they get three questions. Guest thats true. Host i dont know where my button is. Guest actually, i have an answer to that. If i want to get close to god, bach, if i want to get happier, hidden. Host lets hear from louis guest where is readily . Caller ing its in Northern California up by chico. Guest okay. Caller do you think where chico is . Guest very well. Caller hey, ive got two quick questions, and ill hang up. My first question is im a native californian, and im fleeing this socialist state as we speak. I dont think california can survive. Is that the reason countrys going to fail, because california, new york, illinois are going to be so financially insolvent that the rest of country will have to chip in and its over with . Guest and what was the other question . Caller and how in the world do we not vote for donald trump just because of the Supreme Court only . No other reason but that. And thats host all right. That was louis in ridley, california. Guest right. So the National Debt and the state debt will bring down the country economically. And at that point, the left will say now is when we really need to tax the rich to save the country, and we will forcibly take their money away. By the way, which wont help, of course, because the rich also are the ones who hire the most and produce the most and pay the most taxes. So once if you shot every single rich person in america, took all their money, it would help for approximately two years. I dont know what the exact number is, and then you would have no hiring or producing of wealth that we have had to begin with. Inequality does not trouble me. It is the quality of life of those who are on the lowest rungs that should be the moral issue. If the poorest people of your society are living well but far beneath the richest, so what . Its this is so unhealthy and immoral and unamerican. The american response has always been to the wealthier, gee, how do i get that wealthy . Not, gee, lets take it away. Thats the european response. And and, among other things, it violates the ten commandment. Tenth commandment. As regards the trump vote, yes, i think the Supreme Court issue should be dispositive, yes. Host lets move on to in ashland, virginia. Hi, hugh, go ahead. Caller hi. God bless you and this show. We would not hear in russia. I am selfprobe claimed hear the heartbeat of america live anything ashland, virginia. Id like to share a blog that has a threeline poem i offered in 1983 thats in the president Ronald Reagan library and have dennis comment on his thoughts of the poem. It can be seen on a blog the word creativity 777. Com. Its titled caring, sharing. It reads if you dare to care, then share. If you share, pay heed. God will reward every good deed. And i would like to comment on spirituality if i may. Host if you could do it quickly, hugh, thatd be great. Caller yes. I was raised catholic. I do have my faith in jesus, but there again any religion that does not lead you to a personal heart to god connection as a third is a third party manipulator. Jesus gave two way on how people should live their life; number one, always put god first, number two, love your neighbors yourself. If people could just get that basicness straight, all the wars would stop, and we could start solving problems instead of creating them. It all starts with yourself. Take personal responsibility, live your faith. Host thats in ashland, virginia, and if we could, lets go ahead and move on to another student here at Hillsdale College. Hi. Hello, mr. Be taker. Mr. Prager. At my 12th grade history class, our teacher asked us to rank the United States on a scale of 110 as a force for good in the world throughout its history, overall how would you rank it as a force for good. And be i was shocked to hear that at both times my classmates were asked, they ranked the United States very low on that ranking, you know, a 10 being great, they ranked, oh, close to 2s or 3s saying that the United States was a force for evil in the world more so than a force for good. So my question for you is, how would you show these people or how would you argue to these people that the United States has done more good for the world than evil, and how would you try to convince them, like, break through the indoctrination, i guess, that they have received that the United States is this big, scary, evil p monster . Guest well, this is really he just made the case for why i believe we cannot survive the left in the United States. They have, they have not only lied about the country, they have defamed the kindest country that ever lived. It is and theyve succeeded. I asked howard zinn, he has since passed away, he was on my radio show host whos howard zinn . Guest ing the author of Popular History of the United States, i think its called, and its the most widely read text of American History in high schools and colleges. He was a man of the left. I knew, i always characterized his book as a proctologists view of American History. [laughter] and i said to him exactly that. I said its recorded, and ive transcribed it, its on the internet. So i said, so would you say that the United States has essentially been a force for good, or the world better or worse because there is a United States . He said worse. And that, that is exactly thats what the left believes about the best country that ever existed. Including the terrible things that were done visavis American Indians and blacks. It is the best country that that ever existed because terrible things im saying it again but it doesnt matter, it needs to be repeated over and over the terrible was universal. The good was almost unique. Host so, Dennis Prager, last night at in this dinner with the students we were just talking about issues, talking about candidates, talking about different things, and the idea came up for a group of hillsdale students to sit down with a group of Overland College issues, and it was one of the students idea, which i thought wtz a good idea. Guest i agree with that. Host do you look at things you dont necessarily tend to agree with . Guest much more than what i do agree with. For one thing, i read New York Times every day. I read their columnists. Thats immediately something i dont agree with. Which i only do now because it gives me material for my radio show. Do you believe what was just said here . The day that congresswoman giffords was shot in tucson and she was not killed, but others were killed, paul krugman in the New York Times, one of their columnists, wrote that this was a result of republican rhetoric. The day she was shot. He didnt even know anything about the killer. Turns out it had nothing to do with republican rhetoric, nothing. It was just a lie. He made it up. And they make up these things all the time. But this is the world they live in. So they give me a lot of material for my radio show. But it is also important to me because i need to challenge my views. So i read their stuff, i listen to them, i, you know, i appear regularly on cnn, and most of the time the host doesnt agree with me. So i want that. I think its very important. The if you students would meet with them and if you didnt know how to answer some of their challenges, that would be important too. And im not sure you would. Heres now this is tangential, but ill just give an example. I am not always certain that our side is teaching properly. And through no fault of its own to. Ill give you an example. I mentioned i gave a peach at the Nixon Library a speech at the Nixon Library a couple of years ago, obviously, out in california where i live. And and i mentioned the most frequent question that i have asked since i began lecturing in my 20s. I would ask students would you save your dog or a stranger first if both were drowning . Ive been asking this for 40 years. And the, in 40 years the answers have not changed. For 40 years i get the exact same ratio. Onethird vote for their dog, onethird for the stranger and onethird find question too difficult to answer. So twothirds would not save the stranger. Now, why should you save the stranger . Because humans are created in gods image, humans, human life is more sacred than animal life. Now, only if you believe in the bible do you believe that. Otherwise there is no secular argument not to save your dog first. And why . They say i love my dog, i dont love the stranger, i follow love. Thats all theyre told in secular society, follow love. And theyre right. By the way, for the record, i love my dogs more than i love the strangers too. But i would save any stranger before either of my dogs. It is not easy to say, and it would be even harder for my wife to say because she really loves the dogs. [laughter] i am in competition for her love with the dogs. [laughter] but nevertheless, i am at peace with that. But she would save the stranger because she believes that people are created in gods image, and therefore, there is a i unique sanctity to human life. So why am i mentioning this . Because a christian teacher with his kids, they were about 12, walked over to me after the talk, and he said most of my kids would vote for their dog too. Were failing at our Christian School. And by the way, i asked this at an Orthodox Jewish school in miami, the exact same question. I speak to jews is and christians equally. Im very lucky, i am immersed in both jewish and christian life. And i asked this of an Orthodox Jewish school many miami. Again, the same ray owe, a third, a third, a third just like with the christian kids. So jews and christians arent even doing the job theyre supposed to be doing. Host lets take advantage of our, the fact that were, have some folks here in the audience and that lot of Hillsdale School students. Whos voting for donald trump . Hillary clinton . Guest but hes not a student. Host whos that . Guest hes in the media. Host did he vote . Guest he voted for hillary clinton. Host there were two ladies back there who did as well. Guest im just noting it for the record. He cant be expelled. Im just joking. [laughter] this was a joke. [laughter] host all right. Lets look at this facebook comment. This is from darren, and its critical of booktv. You just obediently sat by and allowed the person to call people republicaninvented slur world, illegals. There is no such thing, illegal is an adjective, not a noun. If we are calling every human being an illegal who does an illegal thing, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is an illegal, etc. , etc. Guest i think i said illegal immigrant, but in any event, this is a good example of the totalitarian control on vocabulary that the left exerts. We cannot call illegal aliens by the way, president bill clinton in 1995 in his state of the Union Address used the term illegal aliens. Just in his state of the Union Address. And spoke about how important it is not to allow illegal aliens. In other words, it sounded exactly like donald trump did, but it was given by it gives you an idea what has happened in 20 years. It is just an astonishing metamorphosis because its a Snowball Effect once the left gets control of media and of schoolings. The vocabulary schools. The vocabulary has to change. Like, for example, its fascinating. Why did it go from Global Warming to Climate Change . You know why . Because its not warming nearly as much as they predicted, so theyre stuck with that term k and they dont like it. Climate change, of course the Climate Changes. Its i mean, the climate has changed all through earths history. Who denies Climate Change . Its like denying, you know, that one walks on ones legs. Its a given. But theyre very brilliant at language. White privilege, so that they dont that lets not talk about the fact that theres an 80 outofwedlock birthrate in black life, because if we talk about that, then were doing two things. One, we may actually solve real problem because thats the biggest single problem in black life, is that too many children are raised without a father in their lives. And then theyre not victim ares, blacks. Victims, blacks. And if blacks are not victims, they may not need the democrats. That is the worst thing you could possibly do, is tell hispanics, women or blacks youre not victims. If youre not victims, you dont need us so you must see yourselves as victims. So they lie about the reality. The reality is not that cops are racist. Of course there are race arist cops. Racist cops. Its like people who say when i say america is not racist, oh, dennis, youre not saying there are no racists in america . They dont understand the difference between. Its just like as a jew i will tell you im the author of a book on antisemitism. There are antisemites in america, but america is not an antisemetic country. In fact or, it is the best country that jews have ever had to live in, and i taught jewish history at brooklyn college. I know my jewish history. This is the best country jews have ever been alive in. But there are antisemites here. And roosevelt did not allow jews in during the holocaust. And by the way, and jews still worship at the shrine of fdr which gives you an idea of how leftism even trumps jewish interest be in jewish minds, that fdr is still an icon to jews. Any wairks i could go on forever, obviously, i do 15 hours a week on my radio show. Im going on forever. [laughter] host and we only have ten minutes left in our program today. Carl in wayne, pennsylvania, good afternoon. Caller hello, dennis. Thank you for taking my call. The, im, ive been a practicing Roman Catholic all my life. I grew up in a coalmining town in pennsylvania of Eastern Europeans. Ive always been a strong believer in the jewish faith, and the thing i dont understand the most, one of the things, is so many jewish people, the welleducated for sure, the celebrities are supporters of the Democratic Party in the United States host all right. Were going to have to leave it there and get a response. Before the program, 69 of American Jews voted for barack obama in 2012. Guest right. Jews, i have a very quick answer and and a very long answer. Ill only give you the quick answer. This is the way i phrase it. Jews are the most religious group in the world except for most of them their religion isnt judyism. Judaism. Jews invent secular religions the way italians invent operas. Its part of their dna, if you will. You name it, marxism, socialism, humanism, environmentalism, feminism, egalitarianism, you name the ism, jews either founded it or have been extremely active in it. These are all secular replacements for the judaism that in most cases they do not adhere to or care about. And they think theyre doing wonderful work. I debated betty friedan, may she rest in peace. She told me she was not a religious woman, but she said i am in the direct line of jeremiah the prophet as a feminist. And she believed that. So this is a, this is a sad problem. Heres the irony, my latest column in the Jewish Journal is about this, the jews embrace the left, but the left loathe the jews. That thats the irony. Leftist antisemitism has been, with the one exception really of hitler, has been the most powerful continuous antisemitism of the last century. Black lives matter is a leftwig group. Just announced that israel is committing part of its platform, israel is committing genocide. That is as big a lie, as i said earlier, as jews take christian kids, slaughter them to bake mats saw on passover to. Its called the medieval blood libel. This is the modern blood libel against the jews, that israel is committing genocide. And there are jews who support black lives matter despite the fact they have created this blood libel against the jewish state. Host text, michael, karat. Connecticut. Im against the left and right. Im spiritual which is godcentered and has a moral code. Im against socialism and capitalism. Mr. Prayinger has cherry picked his facts. I disagree with him 80 of the time. Guest i always want to know the 20 they agree with, thats [laughter] that really interests me. Id be fascinated. But just, see, heres the thing. I make it easy to disagree with me because im as clear as i think a person can be. Capitalism is the only ism, the only Economic System that has lifted people from poverty. Thats either true or false. Its not agree or disagree. Im either right or wrong. See f i say b see, if i say bmw is better than lexus, thats an opinion. That capitalism has taken people out of poverty, and and only capitalism, is either true or false. Theres a big difference between opinion and truth. Host all right. Very quickly lets hear from another student. My name is caleb hansen, im a freshman here at hillsdale. Im from salt lake city, utah, and my question is what is the motivation behind praying frommer university . Would you ever have students speak at Prager University . And guest would we ever have students what . Would you have students speak on a video at Prager University, and what is the single most important thing you would tell the students of Hillsdale College . Guest wow, thats a lot. So would i ever have students speak at Prager University . Yeah. The motivation behind Prager University. Guest to undo the damage of universities in five minutes at a time with, by the way, some of the greatest speakers from stanford, yale, harvard, princeton. We know there are great thinkers in the universities. We have, on Global Warming, they have leading climatologist in america from mit. So we get the finest minds we can. Theyre not all professors. We had a guy, a black member of the South African Parliament address the question of is israel an apartheid state. He lived under apartheid. If anybody would know it, he would. He went to israel, and be he said, you know what . You have cheapened the word apartheid, all of you who say israel is an an apartheid state. I am a black South African who lived under it. There is no such thing in israel. So were undoing the damage of the universities and the zeitgeist, the spirit of times, five minutes at a time. Thats why we have 140 million views this year. And youre the last point was what would i what message would i like to give hillsdale students . Its a great question. So here off the top of my head the most important thing i could tell you is your greatest battle in life is you. And that, by the way, is the biggest difference between a truly good religious education and a truly good secular education. So well do good versus good, all right . The biggest thing i learned in 14 years of jewish immersion of studies, is it 14 . Lets see, eight yeah. 14, basically. The biggest problem in Dennis Pragers life is Dennis Prager. And you do not learn that in any secular school. You learn that the biggest problem in your life is america. Host and dennis prayinger, some of his prayinger, some of his favorite books. We like to show our audience what the author has sent back to us. The torah, which is the five books of moses, mans search for meaning by victor frankel, men and marriage, george gilder. Modern times by the british historian paul johnson. In bluebeards castle, god, man and history. Some of his inspirations include his friends, his father and brett maverick, and if youre old enough to remember him on tv, yes, it is that bret maverick. [laughter] finally, Dennis Prager is currently reading the intimidation game by wall street journal columnist kimberly strassel, beethoven by jan swafford and its dangerous to believe by mary ebber stat. This has been in depth from Hillsdale College in michigan with Dennis Prager. We appreciate your time, and we appreciate Hillsdale College. Thank you all for coming. Guest appreciate you. Youre the best. [applause]
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