Big media names fawned over British comic John Oliver’s segment this week about the Middle East conflict, when he sided with Palestine and the terrorist organization Hamas because they were at a military disadvantage against Israel.
Not so fast, says Dennis Prager. “Here’s the problem: He’s wrong. Too many people don’t realize they have been manipulated by Hamas propaganda.” Prager presents his case on the issue in this week’s “Fireside Chat” on PragerU.
Michael Knowles from PragerU and former journalist turned physical education buff Gina Bontempo celebrate what’s now considered the first science fiction novel — Frankenstein. Written more than 200 years ago by English author Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is a tragic and cautionary tale about failed humanity, the dangers of scientific knowledge and an overreaching scientist playing “God.”
It also explores the universal desire for a sense of belonging. Here, on PragerU’s The Book Club, take a dive into the groundbreaking volume whose subhead promises “The Modern Prometheus.”
A recent survey reveals that 51 percent of young Americans are feeling depressed with a negative outlook on life. Why so hopeless? Says Dennis Prager, “Well if you are indoctrinated to hate your past, to live fearfully and to expect the world to end, how could you not be?”
In this week’s “Fireside Chat” on PragerU, Prager looks at the different factors that are distressing our youth and probable solutions to turning their lives around.
Hate them or love them, the police are a major and divisive issue across America. But why is the hate so much more prevalent?
Dennis Prager delves into the issue, breaking down an unbelievable hate video that went viral. In the clip, a woman gets pulled over by a cop for using her phone while driving. Her response: “Murderer, what are you going to do to me? Are you going to kill me and my son?” Prager says she must have called him “murderer” at least 10 times.
Later in the confrontation, the abusive woman calls the cop a racist Mexican! And the clincher is, she is a teacher! “Oh my God, that’s the scariest part of the video,” Prager says. “Only God knows what she teaches her kids.” In the following edition of PragerU, Prager offers his brilliant insight into why the Left hates the police and how they’re damaging law enforcement, and also discusses the definition of white values.
With the Derek Chauvin trial now behind us, pending appeal, whatever happened to the charges of racism? The race card, as you might remember, was front and center from the day of the crime right up to the trial, but both the prosecution and defense were mum on the R word. What gives?
Dennis Prager asks, “Isn’t that the entire reason this country has been fixated on this issue? So, maybe the whole thing was a lie.” After all, the death of George Floyd last May set off nonstop riots and lootings the rest of 2020 in protest of police racism. So why wasn’t it mentioned in the trial? Because it didn’t exist.
In the following Fireside Chat, Prager discusses the future of policing in America, whether the verdict was correct and the power of the media in this episode of PragerU.
Actor Siaka Massaquoi, a first-generation American whose family came from Liberia, entered Hollywood with big dreams. However, after witnessing racism firsthand and seeing colleagues lose roles because of their skin color, he began to ask questions.
Says Massaquoi, “I think the narrative Hollywood is trying to sell about black people is the same thing the media’s been selling, that we’re poor us, our lives are in danger every day by living here in this country. They see me as a black man and automatically go to victimhood, or criminal.” He says when his family arrived in America 16 years ago, the refrain was the South was teeming with racists and to keep away from rural areas.
While Massaquoi viewed Hollywood as the most racist experience of his life, he says if there would be a call to action for anyone in Hollywood, just ask yourself what really matters in your heart. “We have a chance to be different and if you don’t, you’re going to have to live with that for the rest of your life. You have a chance today, let’s do it.” Here’s more of his story on breaking free from PragerU.
President Biden’s decision to halt construction on the border wall is drawing the ire of conservatives and a good chunk of liberals, which begs the question: Is the wall bad for immigration?
PragerU’s Will Witt engages an opponent of the border wall in a spirited debate, as they hash out the question, considering illegal vs. legal migration, racism of the structure and the humanitarianism of the issue.
Ten years ago, it was unlikely that you knew someone who identified as transgender. Today, it’s unlikely that you don’t know someone who identifies as transgender. The latest statistics reveal that 2 percent of high school students identify as transgender and the overwhelming majority of them are teenage girls.
Between 2016 and 2017, the number of teenage females seeking transgender surgery quadrupled. Surprisingly, if you graduated high school more than a decade ago there was a chance you didn’t know anyone who was transgender, because according to the Diagnostical and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, the condition underlying it afflicted 1 in 10,000 people and almost none of these cases were teenage girls.
In 2016, Brown University public health researcher Lisa Littman began studying the issue and concluded that peer influence and social media interaction had a lot to do with this trans-teen phenomenon. In the following edition of PragerU, author Abigail Shrier brings us more of Littman’s study and analyzes this disturbing trend and its implications.
The shootings in Atlanta last has catapulted this insane obsession with Asian hate. And if you listen to the mainstream news media, they’re only pouring fuel on the fire. “We’re bathing in this terrible lie of anti-Asian racism in America, another example of white supremacist thought that has taken over the country,” says Dennis Prager.
In this week’s edition of “Fireside Chat,” Prager delves into the latest spike in attacks on Asian-Americans and the Left’s habitual untruthfulness, beginning with his five reasons why this enormous lie was fomented. Here’s more with Prager.
Gabriel Nadales was an angry, bitter and unhappy young man—the perfect recruit for Antifa, the violent left-wing group which claims to fight against fascism. He says his beef was against the greedy, heartless power structure that didn’t care about him or society’s innocent victims and which had robbed, beaten and stolen from his ancestors.
Nadales explains that Antifa stands for antifascist, but the name is purposely deceptive. It is calibrated so that anyone who dares to criticize the group or its tactics can in turn can be labeled fascist. Their mantra: to blast the establishment, taunt police and destroy property.
But something powerful clicked within Nadales. He says, “Joining Antifa was the worst decision of my life.” So how did he escape? He says he encountered something good, friends who pointed him to the logic of Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell and Ben Shapiro. “What they said just made sense and offered me a better way to live.” He added that Antifa just cared about control and only offered him more anger and bitterness. Here’s the rest of Nadales’ story on PragerU.
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