Prager 20150703 – 1 Third of July
Jul 3, 2015
Prager H1: Dennis reflects on tomorrow’s holiday and the importance of ritual in maintaining national memory. Callers weigh in.
Prager H1: Dennis reflects on tomorrow’s holiday and the importance of ritual in maintaining national memory. Callers weigh in.
Prager H3: Rules about what you can say and not say with regard to race (microaggressions) have become a feature on college campuses across the country. If you ask someone where they’re from, you’re a racist… The Administration is preventing the Kurds from getting the heavy weapons they need to fight Islamic State… Black on white crime is much greater than white on black crime.
Prager H2: Macy’s will no longer sell Donald Trump’s clothing line, something they have done since 2004. They were pressured by Leftist activists after Trump made statements about illegal immigrants and caved… Dennis talks to Adam Freedman, legal affairs commentator for Ricochet.com. His new book is A Less Perfect Union: The Case for States’ Rights.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Hugh Hewitt, Salem radio talk show colleague and friend. His new book is The Queen: The Epic Ambition of Hillary and the Coming of a Second “Clinton Era.”
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Michael Oren, celebrated historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States. His new book is Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide.
Prager H2: Did you have misgivings about your spouse before you got married? If so, how did the marriage work out?
Prager H1: Moral judgment is no longer a feature of our society. This has been a sad and destructive development… The President announces the opening of an American Embassy in Havana. He thinks this will push Cuba toward greater openness. Why?… Political Correctness is making it very hard to fight radical Islam.
Prager H3: YouTube and Twitter have been flooded with anti-American rants in response to the new Prager U course. Dennis sees it as a perfect example of George Gilder’s brilliant “Israel Test.” How do you react to people who excel you? Do you want to bring them to down or do you want to model them? This applies to countries as well as people.
Prager H2: Greece fashioned itself as a socialist paradise – high wages, generous pensions. One problem: they never had the money to pull it off. They borrowed and borrowed to keep the merry-go-round going, but now it’s stopped… Dennis talks to Nick Adams, Australian columnist and author. He teaches the newest Prager U course “What Makes America Different?”