Prager H3: Raise the retirement age in France to 62 and you’ve got a major strike on your hands. In the meantime, it’s a revolutionary act to steal rides on the Paris metro. Once again we’re dead last in health care. And we spend so much money on it! That’s the standard media line and here it is once again. But where are the “studies” coming from. And could they possibly have an agenda. Huh, yeah…
Prager H1: Dennis’s position on the McChrystal/Obama crisis: McChrystal should resign and the President should refuse to accept it. But why did the General think he’d get a fair hearing from Rolling Stone? What did he think they’d write? That the war was a noble effort and we should all get behind it? Rolling Stone?.. Dennis talks to Max Boot, senior fellow at The Council of Foreign Relations, about this issue.
Prager H2: Dennis talks to Alison Armstrong, renowned relationship expert and creator of the popular Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women seminars. They discuss the different role of competition in the lives of men and women.
Prager H3: President Obama announces at a press conference a few minutes ago that he is accepting General McChrystal’s resignation and appointing General David Petraeus in his place. Dennis talks to Neal Polan, creator of a Fourth of July (Seder) Celebration, inspired by Dennis’s concept that we need rituals for the Fourth of July. Dennis returns to the President’s decision to accept General McChrystal’s resignation.
Prager H1: Experts come up with another great theory. No best friends for kids. Better to be friends with everyone. That way you get rid of bullying. Sounds practical, doesn’t it?… The would-be Times Square Bomber pleads guilty. Admits he wanted to kill and maim as many people as possible because, after all, he’s a soldier of Islam.
Prager H2: Dennis takes on the arguments in the Newsweek piece: The Case against Marriage. (You can see a distillation of Dennis’s defense of marriage at www.prageruniversity.com. Send it on to your friends, relatives, kids and grandkids who might have their doubts.) Callers weigh in with their agreements and objections.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to renowned scientist Gerald Schroeder. An applied theologian, he currently teaches at the College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. His new book is God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve Been Wrong about God All Along.
Prager H1: Dennis spent Fathers Day in New York with his sons and his father. He also attended a wedding and marveled at the weak arguments made in a recent issue of Newsweek against marriage… Portugal defeated N Korea 7-0 in the World Cup. Note to N Korean team: don’t go home… SC Justice, Antonin Scalia, gives a speech to high school students that Dennis might have given. Does he listen to the show?
Prager H2: President Obama might give a good speech, but at heart he’s an academic – utopian ideas are more real to him the effective policy. Hillary Clinton criticizes Arizona during her tour of South America… Oliver Stone’s new documentary, a celebration of Hugo Chavez, bombs — in Venezuela.
Prager H3: Dennis debates liberal thinker, Peter Beinart, contributor to Time Magazine and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.
Prager H2: Your father plays a key role in your happiness — or unhappiness. On the eve of Father’s Day, Dennis and callers explore this issue.
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: is it okay to change your order in a restaurant; why do so many Jews seem to get married in country clubs; should one continue to support a liberal organization if one has become conservative; was Christianity forced on blacks; can America recapture its values or have we drifted too far from them; why is clarity so important; do Republicans have a utopian vision of America.
