Column - Dennis Prager

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

I’ve never understood ethnic, race, gender or sex pride. Even as a kid. For my bar mitzvah, someone gave me a book titled “Great Jews in Sports” or something like it. Aside from the usual jokes — it was not a long book; the print and the photos were very large — wh...

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

One of the most remarkable laws in the Bible is in the Book of Deuteronomy: “Do not hate an Egyptian.” It is remarkable because it was given to the generation of Israelites that had just been liberated from slavery in Egypt. Imagine. A people who had been enslaved for hundreds of ye...

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

There are four primary reasons fewer and fewer people in America and the West take God, the Bible or religion seriously. 1. The belief that science disproves religion. 2. The belief that reason and feelings supplant God and the Bible as the only necessary vehicles to morality. 3. The “pro...

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Last week, Otto, my beloved English bulldog, died. He died as he lived — peacefully. His presence in our home for 12 years was an unmitigated joy. He also, amazingly, became the best-known dog in America through sheer happenstance; he was on camera during almost all of my nearly 300 weekly Fir...

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that &#...

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in what was known at the time as “Communist Affairs.” I ci...

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

If you Google “what is conservatism?” this is the definition you will receive: “Commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.” This is but one more illustration of the lack of objectivity wherever the Left is in control. The idea that con...

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Given the damage the Left and the Left’s political party, the Democrats, are doing to America, you would think conservatives would understand that defeating the Left is by far their most important task. The Left’s damage includes, to name but a few examples, doing incalculable damage to ...

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors. Their primary concern was social activism — LGBTQIA+, DEI...

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 as we are likely to have for the foreseeable future. The report asses...