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24 May 2016

Baseball As Unique As America

Baseball truly is America’s pastime, more so than football, basketball and hockey. But is it really as unique as the USA? Pulitzer Prize winning-columnist George Will thinks so. “Baseball is what America aspires to be–a real meritocracy,” Will says. “Baseball also is a good game for democracy, because it teaches democratic lessons. It is a game of a half-loaf. In baseball, as in democracy, no one gets everything he wants.” Listen to more of George Will in this edition of Prager University.

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06 Apr 2016

Batter Up!

As the boys of summer take the field this week to launch the 2016 Major League Baseball season, syndicated columnist and political commentator George Will reflects on why the sport mirrors our values. “The game is especially suited to our democracy and deserves to be our pasttime,” Will says. He presents his case in this edition of Prager University.

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25 Jun 2015

A College Speech For the Ages

Most of us attend a small percentage of thousands of college commencement speeches given every year. But it’s certain they all have one theme in common, says nationally syndicated and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will. “They’re often collections of bromides and boring advice. Just once a commencement speaker should puncture the smug complacency and cloyne self-congratulation on campuses.” In this edition of Prager University, Will renders a funny, truthful and witty speech that every graduate should here.

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08 Oct 2014

Assault On Freedom Of Speech

The question on the proverbial political table: Is campaign finance reform a good way to regulate money in politics? Nationally syndicated, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will thinks not. Will says campaign finance reform is nothing more than a euphemism for controlling freedom of speech. Listen in to his argument in this edition of Prager University.

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17 Jun 2014

Surpise, Surprise

After waiting nearly a year for e-mails connected to IRS Scandal key witness Lois Lerner, the Congressional committee investigating the matter received a surprise response over the weekend. In what has become commonplace at the White House, the IRS chose a quiet Friday afternoon with other issues dominating the airwaves to inform the committee that the e-mail–Ready for this?–disappeared into cyberspace. Poof! Gone. The e-mails, of course, are key pieces of evidence in proving that Lerner and the IRS used government resources to place additional pressure on tax-exempt Tea Party affiliated organizations and conservatives prior to the 2010 and 2012 elections. Fox News host Bret Baier and a “Special Report” all-star panel (syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, Ron Fournier of the National Review and syndicated columnist George Will) discuss the ramifications of the turn of events.

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30 May 2014

Obama Dumps Shinseki

After diddling and dawdling for months, and with his proverbial back against the wall, President Barack Obama fired beleaguered Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki amid one of the worst scandals of the administration that has now penetrated 42 facilities across the country. The swift announcement was welcomed by U.S. veterans, many of them suffering unheard of delays in medical care. Fox News’ Bret Baier is joined by the heavyweight analyst trio of Charles Krauthammer, A.B. Stoddard and George Will as they dissect the VA shakeup.

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