Prager H3: California has the biggest shale formation in the country. It could be an economic boon for the state, but not if the Greens can help it…. Chicago police will no longer respond to non-violent crimes like auto theft… Dennis talks to Steve Malanga, senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He has major new piece coming out on the corrupt California public pension system, the biggest in the world.

Prager H2: Do men who are dating know how to behave? Anecdotally, there are very disturbing indications that they don’t. If they are behaving badly, the question is why.

Prager H1: Dennis talks to Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at U. of Tennessee and founder of Instapundit, one of the most read conservative blogs on the Internet. His new short books for Encounter Broadsides are: The Higher Education Bubble and K-12 Implosion.