Dennis Prager 20220726 – 3 Ultimate Issues Hour: Wisdom Makers
What questions are most likely to elicit wisdom from someone? Dennis recalls his yeshiva (Jewish day school) education.
What questions are most likely to elicit wisdom from someone? Dennis recalls his yeshiva (Jewish day school) education.
Who do we want to join the military? It seems like we want everyone but aggressive young men. What kind of military are we going to get with this attitude… Dennis talks to fellow talk show and founder of Turning Point, USA, Charlie Kirk. His new book is The College Scam: How America’s Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America’s Youth.
A Maryland school district instructs its teachers to affirm their students “gender ideation.” If parents don’t approve, teachers are encouraged to lie to them. This is child abuse… Dennis’s fellow yeshiva students learned more about wisdom as 10-year-olds than Harvard grads do today…
The US Armed Forces are, like police departments, becoming depopulated. Who is to blame? The brass and the Joint Chiefs blame everybody but themselves, their failures and their woke policies… The efforts of environmentalists to denude the world of fossil fuel energy is more dangerous to the future of civilization than any threat from global warming.
Religious people are dismissed because they have “blind faith.” But there is no faith as blind as that of secular people. Their faith the world is going to burn up from carbon emissions in 10, 20 or 50 years has no religious parallel… Many now have blind faith in the Covid vaccines even though there is more and more evidence that they either don’t work or are unnecessary or even potentially harmful for most people… Dennis talks to Amity Shlaes, Chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and author of Coolidge. She presents two of this week’s three PragerU videos on The Jazz Age Presidents: Harding and Coolidge. The third video is Hoover (presented by Kenneth Whyte).
Dennis is in Miami for the week. Miami is known this time of year for its oppressive heat and humidity, but it’s very livable now. Why? The answer is energy supplied by fossil fuel… The National Education Convention confirms all of one’s worst fears about teachers unions: they are fully woke and fully an appendage of the Democratic Party.
Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: does the Webb space telescope argue for or against the existence of God.
It’s very hard to be happy if you give in to despair. According to the Bible, despair is a great sin.
We suffer from a major wisdom deficit. Our “experts” do not consider the consequences of their actions… Another study concludes that masks do nothing to stop the spread of Covid in schools… Ford will lay off 8000 workers to fund its government mandated electric vehicle program. Wait, I thought green technologies were supposed to create jobs, not cost them.
It’s very hard to build civilization. It’s very easy to destroy it… Dennis talks to Aryeh Lightstone, senior advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Israel during the Trump Adminstration, David Friedman. His new book is Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace―and What Lies Ahead.