Prager 20140214 – 2 Happiness Hour: Valentine Happiness
Feb 14, 2014
Prager H2: Dennis considers the full constellation of love relationships.
Prager H2: Dennis considers the full constellation of love relationships.
Prager H1: Susan Patton offers young women some excellent Valentine’s Day advice in the Wall Street Journal – marriage is more important to happiness than career… Paul Krugman of the NY Times and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post have very different interpretations of the CBO report on ObamaCare… For Krugman income equality is no longer enough. Now we need equality of dignity.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Sally Satel, resident scholar at AEI and Yale University lecturer and Scott Lilienfeld, professor of psychology at Emory University. Their new book is Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience… Dennis builds on his interview to consider the question of whether addiction is a choice or a disease. Callers weigh in.
Prager H2: An Alabama legislator expresses anger at Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, because he married a white woman. The story sparks a spirited discussion with callers taking both sides of the issue.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to renowned International human rights lawyer, former President of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development on the question of Israel’s legal rights to national sovereignty.
Prager H3: Clarence Thomas tells college students that there’s more concern about race now than there was when he was growing up in the segregated South… Dennis talks to Al Cardenas, Chairman of the American Conservative Union… Why do young people vote Democrat even though they acknowledge that Republicans are much better for economic growth?
Prager H2: Equality of the sexes doesn’t mean more sex in marriage. In fact, research indicates it means just the opposite.
Prager H1: Global Warming is so severe that Lake Superior, a very big lake, will freeze over this winter for the first time in decades… Canada is going to balance its budget this year. Is it coincidence that Canada has a conservative government?… Dennis talks to Martha Bayles who teaches humanities at Boston College. Her new book is Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad… Mormonism is on trial in the UK. Yes, there is a war on religion in the West and especially in Europe.
Prager H3: There are two pillars to a good life: the moral and the holy. We are all familiar with the former, but are very unfamiliar with the latter.